As Baltimore works to demolish vacant properties in and around the 2700 block of Fenwick Avenue in the Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello community a rash of fires has added to the despair of residents. On Tuesday morning, a two-alarm fire destroyed six vacant ...

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Mark Washington, executive director of the Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello Community Corp., isn’t naive. He knows his neighborhood, which shares an economic profile with some of Baltimore’s poorest communities, faces deep challenges as it struggles to thrive again. He also believes the community, ...

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(AP) The city of Hagerstown is close to an agreement for cleaning up and demolishing an old electric plant filled with toxic PCBs and asbestos. The Herald-Mail reported in its Wednesday edition that the city would pay the owner of ...

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If the proposed $2.6 billion Red Line light rail route is built, it has two ways to go. It could be a catalyst in transforming West Baltimore from an economically distressed area with an abundance of vacant properties into a revitalized urban area. Or it could be just another poorly thought-out transportation project that fails to capitalize on its potential.

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The city housing department has signed an agreement to use nearly $10 million from a national foreclosure abuse settlement to demolish 578 mostly derelict buildings and houses in 10 Baltimore communities, in some cases relocating homeowners and renters so entire blocks can be razed.

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Outside the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre, large signs announced the expected construction of a $150 million, mixed-use redevelopment to be called Mechanic Center.

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ABERDEEN — A search for live explosives is prompting some changes for workers and visitors to Aberdeen Proving Ground near Aberdeen. The Army installation said Tuesday that the Route 715 gate near the visitor center will be closed Friday nights ...

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The new owners of the Sparrows Point steel mill outside Baltimore say they have closed the deal and are looking for operators for all or part of the four-square-mile property. Spokesman Gary Epstein says the mill has state-of-the-art cold-rolling equipment. ...

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A city panel voted unanimously on Tuesday to stall demolition of the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre until at least March 2013.

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A local group is seeking to demolish the 45-year-old Morris A. Mechanic Theatre and replace it with two 30-story towers that would add 600 market-rate apartments to center city, a 150,000-square-foot retail complex and an underground parking garage. The $150 ...

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