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Looking for ways to improve Inner Harbor
City leaders hope that by this time next year they'll have returned from Annapolis with funds to put toward making the Inner Harbor what its original designers intended it to be — "a playground for Baltimoreans." "The city has changed so much...
Tags: Annapolis, Ayers Saint Gross, Architecture, Rash Field, Science
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Marinas can help clean the bay
In October, Waterfront Partnership's Healthy Harbor Initiative released the State of Baltimore's Harbor Report, an assessment of the current health of Baltimore's Inner Harbor and its surrounding tributaries. According to the study, the water quality...
Tags: Environmental Pollution, Rivers, Wetlands, Energy Resources, Bodies of Water
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Fight brews on Maryland drink deposit law
In a bid to boost recycling and reduce litter, a trio of lawmakers announced plans Monday to push for legislation that would levy a refundable nickel deposit on every beverage container sold in Maryland.
But the announcement drew prompt opposition from...Tags: Annapolis, Tour Operations Industry, Labor Legislation, Consumer Goods Industries, John A. Olszewski, Jr.
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City storm-water pollution cleanup fee proposed
Just two weeks after Baltimore voters approved setting up a special fund for cleaning up the city's degraded streams and harbor, City Hall has proposed legislation to begin levying a "storm-water remediation fee" next year on all property owners....Tags: Local Government, Justice System, Business, Local Elections, Public Officials
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'Major piece' of Inner Harbor promenade to be upgraded
The city expects to start construction this fall on one of the final sections of the seven-mile Inner Harbor promenade. The $6.6 million project will replace a temporary wooden walkway with brick to match the rest of the promenade. It will connect to the...
Tags: Harbor East, Inner Harbor
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More Baltimore-area fish kills reported
Dead fish continued to surface Tuesday in Baltimore-area waters, though the conditions that scientists believe have been causing the weeklong die-off may be moderating slightly.
State investigators estimated there were 10,000 fish floating in Stoney...Tags: Natural Resources, Dundalk, Wildlife, Locust Point, Baltimore Weather
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Harbor Point developers seek to expand project
Developers of Baltimore's Harbor Point have asked the city for permission to build up to 1,000 residences on the site between Harbor East and Fells Point, making the project more of a mixed-use community than is currently allowed by the city's zoning.
If...Tags: Exelon Corp., Ayers Saint Gross, Architecture, Inner Harbor, Mount Vernon Place
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Merchants set records as Sailabration boosts city business
Jimmy's Restaurant in Fells Point ran out of hot dogs, potato salad and macaroni salad and scrambled to replenish all weekend as hordes of hungry Sailabration visitors jammed the popular diner.
Even on Monday, as rain moved in after days of sunshine, the...Tags: Salads, Baltimore Hotels, Visit Baltimore, Port Discovery Children's Museum, Inner Harbor
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Sailabration drew more than 1.5 million visitors
Baltimore's weeklong Star-Spangled Sailabration in June drew more than 1.5 million people — some 435,000 from out of state — and had an estimated $166 million in economic impact on the metro area, according to a study released Thursday by...
Tags: Tour Operations Industry, Event Planning, Inner Harbor, Festive Events, Kona Grill Incorporated
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Vision of fishable Inner Harbor by 2020 is murky
The Baltimore SunTony Tochterman, who along with his wife, Dee, owns Tochterman's Fishing Tackle, the city's oldest bait and tackle store, remembers it well. Tony and Bob Wall, division chief of Baltimore's Recreation and Parks Department, helped introduce area...Tags: Fishing, Atlantic Ocean, William Donald Schaefer, Wildlife, Patapsco
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Harbor report card: water quality still poor, cleanup effort growing
Baltimore's ailing harbor remains fouled by trash and pollution that make it largely unfit for swimming, but cleanup efforts are starting to pick up steam, according to the latest report card on the urban water body's health. The Waterfront Partnership,...
Tags: Water, Tour Operations Industry, Tropical Storm Lee (2011), Weather Reports, Tropical Storms
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Restoring the harbor to health
Tony Tochterman and his wife say the prospects for a fishable and swimmable Inner Harbor by 2020 remain at best uncertain ("Vision of fishable Inner Harbor by 2020 is murky," Sept. 23). They are probably closer to the truth than the Waterfront Partnership...Tags: Inner Harbor
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