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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The distinctive archways that lined Howard Street and overlooked the light rail tracks in downtown Baltimore are gone, but few tears are being shed for the quirky 1980s-era street decorations. “They were just a very dated feature,” said Kirby Fowler, ...

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When Baltimore Ravens President Dick Cass looks into the stands at M&T Bank Stadium,  he sees “a sea of screaming purple.” His goal is to grow that sea, Cass said in a speech at the Downtown Partnership’s 2012 State of ...

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Baltimore’s downtown core experienced some highs and lows last year as businesses and new residents moved in, but the city’s office vacancy rate dipped to 17.7 percent while the number of workers declined by 10,706, a new report says. The ...

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The mayor’s office plans to announce Wednesday who it has chosen to take over the troubled Baltimore Grand Prix, but two of the three groups who have reportedly expressed interest in managing the event said they have not recently had ...

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Kirby Fowler definitely has a point. The president of the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore has argued that the Inner Harbor would have received a real boost if the new office building that Exelon is promising to build in Baltimore were ...

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COLLEGE PARK — Speakers at a public hearing on the proposed merger of two University System of Maryland institutions disagreed over the plan’s implications Friday, with some touting its advantages while others worried aloud about a larger bureaucracy. Many speakers ...

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Baltimore has begun installing charging stations for electric cars in city garages, and The Daily Record investigates two mansions in Potomac that are owned by African dictators with documented human rights violations. Those stories and more in this week’s business ...

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Encouraged by robust population growth in the city’s center, Downtown Partnership of Baltimore Inc. will soon launch a marketing effort with billboards, bumper stickers and even a signature cocktail to attract more residents to “The 401.” “We have this growing ...

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The Downtown Partnership hopes a joint patrol by a police officer and an addiction recovery specialist will help people feel safer around Lexington Market. The patrols outside the market on the west side of Baltimore’s downtown start this week. Officials ...

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