baltimore development corporation

• Business

Proposals sought for new Inner Harbor docks, paddle boats

The Baltimore Development Corp. is seeking proposals for new on-water attractions for the Inner Harbor.

By Sarah Gantz

Sep 1, 2016

• Business

BDC seeks developers for property in front of Bank of America Center

The city-owned parcel along Pratt Street is primarily occupied by a fountain

By Sarah Gantz

Sep 1, 2016

• Baltimore City

City Council begins work on Port Covington tax deal

The Baltimore City Council began work Tuesday on potential changes to the proposed tax deal for Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank's waterfront Port Covington development.

By Luke Broadwater

Aug 16, 2016

• Baltimore City

City Council votes to eliminate property taxes for UM BioPark developer for 5 years

The Baltimore City Council on Monday voted unanimously to eliminate property taxes for at least five years for a real estate firm developing the University of Maryland BioPark.

By Luke Broadwater

Nov 16, 2015

• Baltimore Development Corporation

Hotel, apartments planned for new East Pratt tower

Developers are scheduled to present designs to the city next week for a major mixed use development with a hotel and apartment on a prime Pratt Street parking lot across from Harborplace — one of the last undeveloped parcels close to the water.

• Baltimore Development Corporation

Demolition planned for former Acme site in West Baltimore

The city has set aside nearly half a million dollars to tear down a crumbling building on property it purchased in west Baltimore about 10 years ago in an effort to spur revitalization in the area, officials said.

By Natalie Sherman

Dec 1, 2014

• Baltimore City Paper

Baltimore's New Deal: WPA-level spending has the power to remake the city, but much of it might be going away

• Baltimore City Paper

Frank Conaway Jr. won the election, but a host of powerful people hoped he wouldn't

The last-ditch write-in campaign by state Del. Shawn Tarrant (D) to unseat his 40th District colleague, Del. Frank Conaway Jr. (D), failed by a long shot, but some Democratic heavy-hitters supported it, according to campaign-finance records.

• Opinion

BDC may think local, but it pays outsiders

BDC should put its money where its mouth is when it comes to promoting Baltimore's small business community

• Baltimore Development Corporation

BDC boosts lending in 2014

The amount of money loaned by the city's economic development arm quadrupled between 2013 and 2014, according to an audit of the quasi-public agency presented Thursday.

By Natalie Sherman

Nov 20, 2014

• Business

Plank says city must lose 'chip on our shoulder'

Baltimore's self-image seems at odds with the relentless optimism of Under Armour founder Kevin Plank. Plank wants – perhaps needs – the city to shed its inferiority complex if he is to keep growing the thriving company and lure thousands more employees to the city.

By Jeff Barker

Nov 2, 2014

• Business

Baltimore economy stands out amid lackluster state growth

The Baltimore region has been less affected by federal spending cuts than other parts of the state, helping to make it a bright spot in an otherwise lackluster Maryland economy, a federal economist said Thursday.

• Business

Casino funding goes to small-business loans

A granola company, a cafe and a contracting firm owned by a disabled veteran are the first three recipients of $700,000 in loans from a new Baltimore County program for small minority- and women- owned businesses.

By Natalie Sherman

Oct 16, 2014

• Baltimore Development Corporation

City Council unanimously backs Costello, criticizes process

The Baltimore City Council on Monday unanimously approved Federal Hill Neighborhood Association President Eric T. Costello to fill a vacant seat, but several members expressed concern over a process they said lacked true community involvement.

• Baltimore City

City Council nominee a polarizing figure in Federal Hill

Eric Costello has been a magnet for controversy as president of the Federal Hill Neighborhood Association. Now he's been nominated to fill a City Council vacancy through a process that has been criticized. The council is expected to vote Monday on his nomination.

• Opinion

District 11 do-over? [Editorial]

The City Council must do more than rubber stamp a committee's hasty decision to back a candidate to replace new BDC head Bill Cole.

• Business

Kmart to close Wabash Avenue store

Kmart plans to close its Wabash Avenue store at the end of November, laying off more than 100 employees as the company trims operations around the country, according to notice submitted to the state last week.

• Politics

9 candidates write letter to City Council, call for re-vote on vacant seat after 'tainted' process

Candidates call District 11 selection process an 'insult' to public

• East Baltimore Development Inc.

BDC considers EBDI, west side projects

The Baltimore Development Corp. voted unanimously in a closed session Thursday to start exclusive negotiations with a developer seeking to build market-rate apartments at two city-owned sites on Mulberry Street.

• Maryland

Young accused of pushing favored candidate through nominating committee

Baltimore City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young came under fire Wednesday after critics charged he pushed his favored candidate through a committee tasked with filling a vacant council seat.

• Opinion

Baltimore's renaissance [Commentary]

Judging from the rush of developers to produce new apartments and the surge of office and hotel construction, Baltimore is seeing what looks like a new renaissance — fueled by two generations of urban dwellers who have come on the scene since the renaissance of 1960-80, when the city was re-invented by the "crown jewel" of the Inner Harbor.

• Opinion

City Council replacement should keep families in focus [Commentary]

If Baltimore is going to attract 10,000 more families to the city (and keep the 10,000 already here), we need City Council members and state delegates and senators who understand the needs of families and are willing to address them. Only together can we create strong schools, safe streets, green spaces and walkable neighborhoods throughout downtown.

• Politics

15 apply for vacant City Council seat

Vacancy in 11th District after Bill Cole appointed to run the Baltimore Development Corp.

• Business

City to vote on 'Royal Farms Arena'

The Baltimore Arena is slated to get a real fresh facelift real fast, with the city expected to select Royal Farms Wedneday as the new corporate sponsor of the venue.

• Opinion

Replacing Mr. Cole [Editorial]

The new process being used to replace former City Councilman Bill Cole should be open, transparent and independent.

• Opinion

BDC board missing a preservationist's viewpoint [Letter]

BDC's new board is missing a preservationist's viewpoint.

• Sun Investigates

Filings reveal cash on hand for potential Baltimore mayoral candidates

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake leads the money race against potential future political opponents with more than $350,000 on hand, a review of the most recent campaign finance reports shows.

• Business

Board changes at BDC as new president Cole steps in

City Councilman William H. Cole IV appeared as the new president at his first public meeting of the Baltimore Development Corp. Thursday, on a day when the mayor announced six new board members and the board approved three new projects for the city's west side.

• Politics

Keiffer Mitchell says he won't seek to replace Cole on City Council

Mitchell says obligations would prevent him from devoting enough time to the job

• Entertainment

The short history and big impact of the Emerging Technology Center

The Baltimore tech startup incubator continues to grow and shape the city's business landscape

• Baltimore City

Jockeying begins for Cole's City Council seat

With Councilman William H. Cole IV leaving to run Baltimore's economic development corporation, candidates began lining up Friday to take over his south Baltimore council seat representing the Inner Harbor and Federal Hill.

• Opinion

New direction for BDC [Editorial]

William H. Cole IV has the potential to shift the focus of the city's economic development arm beyond the downtown deals for which is is famous (or infamous).

• Baltimore City

Councilman Cole to replace McKenzie as head of BDC

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake appointed two-term City Councilman William H. Cole IV Thursday to lead the Baltimore Development Corp., the quasi-public agency charged with revitalizing the city.

• ShopRite

City says largest supermarket to open in Howard Park after years of lobbying

Residents who have lived one of Baltimore's many "food deserts" will soon have more access to fresh meats and produce as the city's largest grocery store opens in Howard Park Thursday.

• Art

Green light for theater hub project on Howard Street is something to cheer about

Proposal to convert abandoned buildings on N. Howard St. into theaters, offices and more is a hopeful sign for a neglected part of downtown Baltimore.

• Companies and Corporations

BDC backs $28 million in bonds for One Light Street garage

The development firm working on one of downtown¿s biggest conversions of offices to apartments wants to erect another 362-unit building across the street, city development officials said Thursday.

• Politics and Government

BDC backs Howard Street theater project

The board of the Baltimore Development Corp. voted Thursday to start negotiations to sell a set of city-owned properties in the 400 block of N. Howard Street to a group proposing to create a hub for small theater companies.

• Baltimore City Paper

Howard Street Theatre Incubator approved

• Baltimore City

Baltimore's bond rating raised to highest level in years, signaling city's improved fiscal health

Standard & Poor's raised Baltimore's bond rating to its highest level in years — a move that reflects growing confidence in the city's fiscal health and will lead to potentially millions of dollars in savings for the city's budget.

• Business

Stop Shop Save to close remaining Baltimore locations

Longtime Baltimore grocery chain Stop Shop and Save is in the process of closing its last four locations, leaving behind some neighborhoods without a grocery store to call their own.

• Obituaries

Ernest L. Caldwell Jr.

Ernest L. Caldwell Jr., a retired senior city planner and urban designer who did early studies for what became Oriole Park at Camden Yards, died of complications of Parkinson's disease July 8. The Stoneleigh resident was 74.

• Business

Pandora moving headquarters and 250 employees to Baltimore from Columbia

Pandora is moving its regional headquarters for the Americas to Baltimore, bringing 250 employees from Columbia to downtown early in 2015.

• Business

State approves tax credit zones

The state said Tuesday it has approved bigger tax breaks for industrial properties in Southeast Baltimore, including the site of the new Amazon warehouse. The benefits, which are designed to spur job creation in an area where several businesses have recently closed, went into effect July 1.

• Business

Group from Jordan visits Baltimore

Public and private leaders of the Jordanian city of Aqaba visited Baltimore on Wednesday to learn about creating a tourist destination from an industrial port.

• Baltimore County

Baltimore County receives $1.5M small businesses, those owned by minorities, women

Baltimore County received $1.5 million to fund small, women and minority owned businesses through the Maryland Small, Minority and Women-Owned Business Loan Fund, according to a Wednesday, June 18 county-issued statement.

• Business

Caves Valley Partners grows from Baltimore roots

A Towson-based company founded less than 10 years ago has emerged as one of the biggest players in the local real estate scene, drawing on its principals' deep ties to the area to build political and financial support for its plans.

• Baltimore City

City chides developer for listing campaign contributions as project cost

Baltimore officials on Wednesday approved a $3.4 million deal to build a luxury hotel on a Fells Point pier after chiding a developer for trying to include campaign contributions to local politicians as part of the project's costs.

• Baltimore City Paper

Baltimore Living

• Baltimore City Paper

Behind the 8th Ball: 8th District Challengers Say Holton Not Visible Enough

• Baltimore City Paper

Bob's Your Uncle: Veteran Pol Bob Curran Stumps For The 3rd District City Council Seat One More Time