Natalie Sherman
811 stories by Natalie Sherman
- GreenPal, an app that aims to be the Uber of lawn mowing, went live in Baltimore this month, part of the company's expansion into every major market by 2020.
- Sales have fallen an average 50 percent across the market ā a startling decline even by the standards of slow summer months, merchants say.
- He said he would submit 2019 legislation seeking money for the $34 million upgrade, which will be overseen by the Maryland Stadium Authority.
- Two Baltimore firms will work to develop and manufacture a vaccine for the Lassa virus, a deadly emerging virus threat in Africa, under a $36 million grant from a global disease preparedness organization.
- Klein Enterprises, a Pikesville-based development firm, plans to start construction this week on a 284-unit apartment building near Interstate 83, part of a wave of residential projects planned for the Jones Falls Valley.
- Tami Howie, the CEO of the Maryland Tech Council, who has led the organization since its creation in 2017, is stepping down this week.
- Since the state moved to cancel State Center in December, no Plan B has been put forward— worrying surrounding neighborhoods who had hoped the redevelopment would help drive city revitalization to the west side.
- Maryland employers reported another strong month of hiring, adding 11,500 jobs in February, the U.S. Labor Department said Friday.
- Baltimore's population fell by 6,700 people in the 12 months that ended July 2016, as the number of people leaving the city for other parts of the U.S. doubled, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday.
- Officials gather Tuesday at Recreation Pier, which for years stood rotting at the foot of Fells Point, to celebrate the opening of the Sagamore Pendry Hotel, a $350-a-night inn, with a whiskey bar, ballroom and interior garden, backed by brothers Kevin and Scott Plank of Under Armour fame.
- The Inn at the Black Olive will be converted into apartments, one of the owners of the property said Monday.
- The CEO in charge of redeveloping the former steel plant at Sparrows Point in Baltimore County said is stepping down for family reasons.
- The global real estate firm CBRE Global Investors has taken a majority stake in the Legg Mason tower in Harbor East in a deal that valued the building at about $296 million.
- The global real estate firm CBRE Global Investors has taken a majority stake in the Legg Mason tower in Harbor East in a deal that valued the building at about $296 million.
- An apartment building planned on the prominent site of the former Della Notte restaurant near Harbor East would rise several stories taller and add more than 100 units under a new $130 million plan unveiled as a Virginia apartment firm joins the project.
- Blue Ocean Realty is looking to build an apartment complex behind the Belvedere Towers in North Roland Park, with more than 130 units.
- The new owner of a former Social Security Administration building near Lexington Market has put forward plans to add a 10-story parking garage on an existing lot as it looks to put the massive complex to new use.
- The developer of a former industrial site near Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in East Baltimore is updating its master plan as it works to tie down tenants for the estimated $100 million project.
- Maryland employers added 6,700 jobs in January, with the gains from December driven by the retail, hospitality and construction industries, the U.S. Labor Department said Monday.
- Home prices in the Baltimore region increased in February and sales dipped slightly, as inventory tightened in markets and distressed sales, such as foreclosures, declined.
- Mall-owner Greenberg Gibbons said last month a $20 million renovation and opening of a new Trader Joe's might force the shopping center's Tuesday afternoon market to move. But the vendors will be able to set up underneath the parking deck, said market manager Cindy Yingling,
- Sen. Bill Ferguson has requested $250,000 from the state to make tenant improvements at Cross Street Market, as plans for a private renovation remain in limbo.
- A local hiring and contracting program Johns Hopkins leaders launched after Baltimore's 2015 riot has largely met its goals so far, according to a one-year progress report released Thursday.
- A Miami real estate investment firm has made its first Maryland purchase, acquiring nine single-story buildings in Baltimore-area business parks for about $59.5 million.
- The new CEO of Columbia-based Corporate Office Properties Trust earned $2.4 million in compensation last year, much of it in the form of stock awards.
- KeyW Holding Corp., a Hanover-based cyber security firm, on Wednesday announced a deal to acquire a Virginia rival for $235 million.
- Million Women Mentors, a national organization that aims to increase the presence of women in science, technology, engineering and math fields, will launch a Maryland chapter on Wednesday.
- For A Day Without a Woman, organizers have asked women to wear red, take the day off from paid or unpaid labor, and avoid shopping.
- A month after the developer planning to redevelop Cross Street Market in Federal Hill said it would walk away from the deal with the city, the firm is back at the table and looking at ways to revive the project.
- The spurned developer of State Center is trying to keep the pressure on Gov. Larry Hogan, after the state moved to cancel a deal that would have overhauled a large section of mid-town Baltimore with new shops, residences and offices for state workers.
- The Hogan administration is asking the General Assembly for more power to attract companies to Maryland — and to keep those that are here from leaving.
- The tale of how Live Baltimore's executive director landed in Baltimore sounds like one of the success stories the organization likes to promote. Steven Gondol and his wife visited friends in Baltimore and became intrigued by the city's quirky neighborhoods and quality of life. First they rented, then bought a house. They loved city life. But now the family is moving away.
- A former Baltimore real estate agent, who prosecutors say worked with a rehabber and others to sell properties to inexperienced, out-of-town buyers at inflated prices, defrauding lenders by submitting false information to secure mortgages, has been sentenced to 27 months in prison.
- It's an awkward announcement for a man whose job for 10 years has focused on convincing people to live in Baltimore: he's saying goodbye to the city.
- The Sagamore Pendry Baltimore said it has hired more than 150 people, of whom three quarters live in the city. The new Fells Point hotel highlighted the job figures as it prepares to open in the historic Recreation Pier building in March.
- Six Baltimore-area developments with more than 1,900 apartments have sold for $247 million.
- Airbnb, a growing short-term rental website, said Monday that hosts in Maryland whose properties are booked through the platform made about $25.3 million in 2016.
- To hoteliers pushing Annapolis lawmakers last week to tax and regulate home and room rentals, the target was clear: Airbnb, a multi-billion dollar corporation, whose growth they believe has been unfairly helped by its ability to operate outside the law.
- Baltimore leaders are scheduled to gather Thursday to celebrate the start of a new multi-million apartment building in Poppleton, close to the University of Maryland BioPark.
- A gunman near Lexington Market fired into a fleeing car overnight, striking a man in the shoulder in one of two new non-fatal shootings the Baltimore Police Department said Saturday are under investigation.
- A freight train crashed into a car on tracks that cut across Woodbine Road on the border between Howard and Carroll counties, said Marc Fischer, a spokesman for Howard County Fire and EMS.
- Change rarely comes easy — especially not if it also means higher bills.
- A 9,000 square foot mansion on an Inner Harbor pier has sold for $6.25 million to a West Coast executive with ties to the movie industry.
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- Maryland was home to more millionaires than any other state in the country last year, according to a new analysis released Thursday.
- They've started small. First, it was eight men. Now it's 16.
- Officials on Wednesday celebrated the opening of a new affordable apartment building on downtown's west side, an area where several new projects are injecting new life.
- Baltimore's Board of Estimates is poised to lift requirements that the owner of the Legg Mason offices and parking garage share profits with the city, in lieu of making full property tax payments.
- The Maryland Technology Development Corp. and one of the state's biggest minority-owned banks are teaming up to start a program aimed to providing early funding to African-American start-ups.
- The Candler Building in downtown Baltimore has sold for $62 million.