Meredith Cohn

To prevent destructive flooding in the future, Howard County officials have decided to buy up some buildings along Main Street in historic Ellicott City with plans to demolish them. But what is fair market value for property some consider rather unique.

A three-block-long complex in South Baltimore signs another office tenant and its developers say they will break ground on another building in coming months.

The continued demand for instant delivery of goods has led three companies to lease large warehouses in the region, and eventually create up to 400 new jobs.

The Gaithersburg pharmaceutical company Emergent Biosolutions has bought the maker of Narcan, a widely used opioid overdose reversal drug, and said it plans to develop more products to combat the nationwide opioid addiction and overdose epidemic

WOW air plans a fare sale to start service to Indira Gandhi International Airport, with one-way tickets offered at $199 for travel between January and March 2019.

Best Buy plans to lease a large warehouse in a part of Anne Arundel County that has become a hub for distribution facilities because it can reach half the nation's population in a day's truck drive.

Caves Valley Partners has joined with B&B Realty Services to buy a McCormick & Co. administrative building in Hunt Valley with plans to upgrade the property and bring in new tenants.

The shiny new apartment tower at 414 Light Street opened to its first residents, who will pay some of the city's highest rents to get some of the most expansive amenities.

The most jobs were lost in leisure and hospitality, which dropped 1,400 positions.

A developer unveils plans to build new retail at the base of the Transamerica building at Pratt and Light streets.

Brink’s Co. has bought its smaller rival Dunbar Armored Inc. for $520 million in cash, the companies said Tuesday.

The Baltimore Sun's news and business operations have moved out of their long-time home on Calvert Street just north of downtown and the new owners are considering new uses for the property.

Sixty-nine small business in Maryland graduated from a training program funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies and Goldman Sachs called 10,000 Small Businesses.

Tight inventory continues to push up prices of houses in most area jurisdictions.

Tribune Media Co. announced Thursday morning that it terminated the controversial $3.7 billion merger with Sinclair Broadcast Group, citing regulatory hurdles.

New research suggests that dogs not only will come to their owners who appear distressed to offer comfort, but they will overcome obstacles to do it.

WeWork, the New York-based shared work space company, plans to open its first Baltimore location in 2020 in new offices on Harbor Point.

The co-founder and former CEO of the Baltimore-based food delivery service OrderUp now heads the cannabis information firm Leafly and has opened an office in the city.

Days of rain and flood warnings, and forecasts of more to come, are complicating the decisions of homeowners, residents and businesses in Downtown Ellicott City. The district, built on the Patapsco and Tiber rivers, has been hit by two catastrophic floods in less than two years.

When the river rises, so does blood pressure on Main Street in Ellicott City, but those who committed to return after the last flood in May remain committed.

Five Minutes with Neal Fiorelli, principal and owner of Lorax Partnerships LLC, a green consulting firm for real estate.

State officials are officially seeking a new developer for the stalled State Center project in Midtown Baltimore, and have already attracted at least one firm.

The unemployment rate in Maryland held steady at 4.3 percent despite losing 5,500 jobs, mostly in government.

A system that automatically tracked medical marijuana for dispensaries in Maryland and their customers has been temporarily shut down because it was overwhelmed.

The Jones Falls Valley is primed for a series of construction projects. An updated master plan is in the works to guide the development.

Thousands of people have contributed nearly $685,000 to a pair of funds created after the June 28 mass shooting in the Capital Gazette newsroom, and donations small and large continue to come in.

A parcel of land in White Marsh will become warehouses for retailers rather than an outlet shopping center, new owners said Monday.

Johns Hopkins University has been handing out Spruce Up grants for the past five years to communities surrounding its Homewood campus in an effort to improve quality of life for those on and off campus.

MGM National Harbor, the Prince George's County casino, hotel and entertainment complex, has opened a $48 million expansion, the result of strong demand, the casino operator said.

The Johns Hopkins University Berman Institute of Bioethics, one of the largest bioethics centers globally, announced Thursday that it has received one of its biggest gifts, $15 million to be used to support education and training.

The Live Hotel, attached to the Live Casino, is having it's grand opening, showing off its new event space, private gaming space and spa, as well as 310 upscale rooms.

Median home prices rose again in June in the Baltimore region, reaching $285,000, a 2 percent increase from last year, and the highest for the month in a decade.

The Cordish Companies, the Baltimore-based developer of the Live entertainment and casino complexes, has begun building a $65 million hotel in St. Louis, Mo. adjacent to Busch Stadium.

In the wake of the Capital-Gazette shootings, what happened to other buildings where mass shootings took place? There is no template for dealing with them. It's largely up to owners and the affected community.

Columbia-based WellDoc announced that it has integrated hypertension and weight management coaching into its BlueStar app, which aids people with type 2 diabetes.

The athletic apparel and footwear company signed a 10-year lease for more than 350,000 square feet of warehouse space next door to about 380,000 square feet of space it already occupied.

The family of a five-year-old boy burned by holiday fireworks is warning others away from setting off backyard pyrotechnics.

The city-owned Hilton Baltimore earned $1.3 million last year, the convention center hotel's first profit in a decade.

A company that makes protective body wear for the military and police plans to move to Baltimore City from Prince George’s county in July and ramp up to 26 employees by year’s end and 300 in the next several years.

Construction has started on a new seven-story apartment building in the Metro Centre in Owings Mills, bringing the total number of apartments in the massive transit-oriented development clustered there at 350.

A medical marijuana dispensary co-owned by an adjunct professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has opened in Mount Vernon and plans a ceremony on June 22.

Baltimore-based WindMIL secures $32.5 million to continue pursuing its cancer immunotherapy treatment.

Booz Allen Hamilton to open its sixth innovation hub in Annapolis Junction to encourage collaboration among cyber security experts.

Hord Coplan Macht, Baltimore's largest architectural firm, plans to move to bigger Inner Harbor offices.

Maryland's unemployment rate was unchanged from the previous month, a bit higher than the national rate.

Developers will seek to use two 19th century stone homes in their designs for a new apartment building in Woodberry.

A developer wants to complete with transformation of the historic cotton mill complex of Clipper Mill by tripling the number of apartments there, a proposal that is raising questions about traffic, parking and how much is too much from residents in the area.

Average home sale prices rose in May to an average of $275,000 as the number of homes on the market continued to shrink.

A city facade improvement program has long benefited more well-off neighborhoods, but a new effort could help the transitional ones a block at a time.

Seeking to fill rooms immediately, an upscale apartment building opening downtown will temporarily take hotel guests.