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The former Hickey-Freeman building is reborn as Tailor Square and still features the Hickey-Freeman logo at the building's entrance. (Photo provided by Home Leasing)
May 22, 2026

Home Leasing selling housing portfolio, including apartments in MD

Rochester, New York-based Home Leasing is selling its real estate portfolio — including an apartment community in Maryland — and will soon be dissolved.

An aerial view of the Country Ridge Shopping Center in Essex. (MacKenzie Commercial Real Estate Services)
May 4, 2026

Baltimore County shopping center sells for $10.7M

Business entity 1500 Country Ridge Ln LLC has acquired Country Ridge Shopping Center in Essex for $10.7 million.

Golden Ring Business Center will soon welcome The Thrift Boutique. (The Thrift Boutique/Hill Management Services)
Mar 12, 2026

Thrift store business to expand in Baltimore County

Dundalk-based Thrift Boutique plans to expand into Essex after signing a lease for warehouse space in the Golden Ring Business Center. 

Jun 5, 2012

Essex woman gets life sentence in murder-for-hire

A Maryland woman accused in a murder-for-hire plot has been given a life sentence for her role in the killing of her brother-in-law. Susan M. Datta, of Essex, supplied the […]

May 30, 2012

New panel to advise Kamenetz on Sparrows Point options

A 16-member panel of business leaders will advise Baltimore County economic development officials about the best use for the Sparrows Point peninsula in the wake of last week’s announced woes […]

Dec 7, 2011

McDonald’s transgender beating victim faces disorderly charges

A transgendered woman beaten in a McDonald’s has been charged with disorderly conduct after an argument with a police officer. A video of the April beating went viral on the […]

Oct 21, 2011

Maryland couple charged in 4 Pa. bank robberies

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. — Federal authorities have indicted a Maryland couple in connection with a string of bank robberies in central Pennsylvania. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of […]

Jun 3, 2011

Melody Simmons’ real estate notebook, 6/3/11

Grim news on the residential home sales front released Tuesday by Standard & Poor’s show a first quarter decline by 4.2 percent in the U.S. National Home Price Index. That […]