February 10, 2011 Comments Off on C. Fraser Smith: Sunshine and leadership needed for EBDI project
In the early 1980s, when I was a new reporter for The Baltimore Sun, I tried to get some information from the Peale Museum. I couldn’t have it, I was told. The museum was a quasi-public institution under no obligation ...
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Read More »February 10, 2011 Comments Off on Editorial: A welcome move on EBDI hearings
We commend the City Council for its unanimous vote Monday to convene hearings into the projected $1.8 billion project known as The New East Baltimore. This is exactly the kind of oversight by our elected officials that has been lacking ...
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Read More »February 7, 2011 1 Comment
The Baltimore City Council unanimously approved Monday a resolution calling for a series of investigative hearings into the projected $1.8 billion development known as The New East Baltimore. The resolution was introduced by Councilman Carl Stokes and had 10 co-sponsors. ...
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Read More »January 30, 2011 Comments Off on Daily Record investigation: Elected officials short on financial details
Until recently, the last time an elected official raised any serious questions about the public funding of The New East Baltimore project was in 2003, when it was just getting started. Hattie Harrison, a longtime state delegate from East Baltimore, ...
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Read More »December 20, 2010 1 Comment
How and why the city grants economic development incentives to private developers is the focus of a newly formed City Hall task force that will include developers, attorneys and business representatives. The Task Force on Baltimore City Public/Private Development Financing ...
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Read More »December 5, 2010 Comments Off on Council committee endorses tax breaks for Paterakis project
The Baltimore City Council is expected to vote Monday night on a bill that would create a special district in Harbor Point, the slice of waterfront property located between Harbor East and Fells Point, so millionaire developer John Paterakis Sr. ...
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