downtown partnership of baltimore

The two Harborplace pavilions were considered visionary when built nearly four decades ago. They've lost their luster, and some have ideas to bring them back.

This summer’s restaurant week in Baltimore is happening August 2 through 11, and hosted by Downtown Partnership, Visit Baltimore and Open Table. 

By Christina Tkacik

Jun 25, 2019

The Baltimore Police Department’s Central District is considering a move up the street to the former home of The Baltimore Sun on the edge of Mount Vernon.

The Sun inducts attorney John Frisch into its Business and Civic Hall of Fame.

City officials are disappointed that Harborplace has been put into receivership but hope for a new owner with vision.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Jun 5, 2019

Six local retailers will rotate through an Inner Harbor pop-up shop sponsored by M&T Bank this summer.

By Lorraine Mirabella

May 31, 2019

Le Mondo represents the Baltimore arts world’s grandest aspirations, but for some members of the tight-knit community, that promise remains sullied.

By Sameer Rao

May 23, 2019

Baltimore has more pressing concerns that the language private security guards use to post warnings about obstreperous youth.

An email from the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore to its members described a group of African-American teenagers as a 'scavenger group' whose 'target market' may be Caucasians.

By Sarah Meehan

Apr 19, 2019

Downtown Partnership can push for a safe downtown without using derogatory language and racial profiling.

As I watched Baltimore burn on the night of Freddie Gray’s funeral four years ago this month, the only comfort I could find was in the thought that the city I loved could not possibly ever again look worse to the world than it did at that profoundly sad moment. But recent events proved me wrong.

By David Zurawik

Apr 4, 2019

Office vacancy rose a bit, retail spending dropped some and new apartment and office towers opened, making it an okay year for downtown despite negative headlines for Baltimore.

By Meredith Cohn

Mar 26, 2019

The two-decade evolution of the Inner Harbor’s east side from rough industrial to ritzy waterfront will continue this summer with the opening of another high-end residential building called Liberty Harbor East.

By Meredith Cohn

Mar 12, 2019

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh's pick to be the city's next police commissioner faces a number of immediate challenges when he arrives later this month.

By Jessica Anderson

Jan 22, 2019

The Economic Alliance of Baltimore named Michelle Whelley CEO and Sharon K. Markley Schreiber as COO.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Jan 17, 2019

Nearly 10 years have passed since city leaders first announced a plan to reinvigorate Baltimore’s ailing central business district. And a residential boom has clearly occurred. But is downtown reinvigorated? Last year's headlines suggest not.

Property owners in downtown Baltimore, concerned about crime and delayed maintenance, plan to add their voices, and possibly their resources, to improving the downtown area that has been getting an influx of residents and office workers.

By Meredith Cohn

Dec 27, 2018

Two “squeegee kids” were arrested Christmas Eve after Baltimore police say they threw rocks and sprayed Windex at a driver.  Police say a driver reported being assaulted on Martin Luther King Boulevard.

Pay a dollar or less this weekend to get into some of Baltimore's best attractions.

By Thalia Juarez

Dec 5, 2018

Downtown Partnership had the right idea with its effort to monitor squeegee kids and their encounters with motorists.

Downtown Partnership “ambassadors” in florescent green vests have been deployed to key Baltimore intersections at morning and evening rush hours to monitor interactions between “squeegee kids” and motorists.

By Yvonne Wenger

Nov 29, 2018

Balitmoreans can chow down on cocoa, cookies and chestnuts roasted on an open fire next Thursday in Monument Park. If they take a moment to look up from their plates, they’ll also see the Washington Monument brighten the sky with holiday lights.

By Mary Carole McCauley

Nov 29, 2018

As the Baltimore Bike Share system languished again this summer, the program’s vendor billed the city more than half a million dollars for operational costs “highly beyond the initial level” and asked the city to bundle bicycle theft reports to exceed the company's $10,000 insurance deductible.

By Colin Campbell

Nov 19, 2018

All 260 people who still had monthly or annual Baltimore Bike Share memberships when the program was ended in August will receive refunds, it’s just not clear when.

By Colin Campbell

Nov 9, 2018

Three longtime Broadway Market vendors and five newcomers will sell food and drink in the renovated market when it opens next year.

By Sarah Meehan

Nov 7, 2018

The Downtown Partnership and Veolia have collaborated in an effort to paint three of the steam pipes in Downtown Baltimore. Artist Kerry Cesen has been commissioned to paint the three large steam pipes.

By Lloyd Fox

Nov 2, 2018

A 10-year-old "squeegee kid" was struck by vehicle in downtown Baltimore, police say.

By Lillian Reed

Oct 30, 2018

Downtown Partnership wants to employ guards to supervise squeegee kids when what's really needed is a better economic opportunity.

Baltimore must enforce the law that bans people from doing business in the street.

Baltimore's "squeegee kids" put city's poverty and need on display, but some say the behavior of certain young men is becoming increasingly troublesome.

By Yvonne Wenger

Oct 16, 2018

In the mid-1980s, the Baltimore City Council worked to come up with a solution to the number of "squeegee kids" working in traffic. The solution was short-lived.

By Yvonne Wenger

Oct 16, 2018

By email, on Twitter and Facebook, Sun readers seem divided on whether squeegee kids are a problem.

By Dan Rodricks

Oct 15, 2018

After former Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis called on him to run for mayor, former police spokesman T.J. Smith says, "I’m going to support our current administration. My full support is behind Mayor Catherine Pugh."

By Colin Campbell

Oct 14, 2018

The objections to Squeegee Kids are entirely about their race.

To resolve issues with the squeegee kids, the Downtown Partner needs "guards" to become mentors or buddies.

By Dan Rodricks

Oct 12, 2018

The Downtown Partnership is placing unarmed security guards as early as next week at key Baltimore intersections to help ease tensions between motorists and squeegee kids.

By Yvonne Wenger

Oct 11, 2018

What's the new plan for Baltimore's oldest public market? Dan goes to Lexington Market to speak with two key players: Robert Thomas, executive director of the city's public markets, and Kirby Fowler, president of the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore.

By Dan Rodricks

Oct 11, 2018

Baltimore officials issued new plans for a redeveloped Lexington Market, where a new building will have a smaller footprint and cost less than earlier plans for the revamped market.

By Sarah Meehan

Oct 3, 2018

A once-bustling section of downtown will come alive again Saturday with the Charm City Night Market, a block party celebrating Asian-American and Pacific Islander culture in Baltimore.

By Wesley Case

Sep 21, 2018

The 500 employees of mid-Atlantic headquarters will be moving in to new 1 Light Street tower headquarters in mid-September. Bank says they have used about half dozen longtime, Baltimore firms to design space, design furniture, create signage and create large photo murals.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Sep 9, 2018

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.

By Meredith Cohn

Aug 22, 2018

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

By Meredith Cohn

Aug 16, 2018

A coalition of business and advocacy groups sent a letter this weekend to Gov. Larry Hogan opposing the recent calls to limit or eliminate Light Rail service in Anne Arundel County, arguing such cutbacks “would come at a direct cost to the region.”

By Colin Campbell

Aug 13, 2018

Fallout from the #MeToo movement is sending seismic tremors through Baltimore’s performing arts scene, perhaps permanently altering the landscape.

A white BMW “became airborne” after hitting a pole at about 6:50 p.m. Monday. A railing was damaged in the accident, said Michael Evitts, a spokesperson for Downtown Partnership.

By Lauren Lumpkin

Jun 19, 2018

Officers responded just after 6 a.m. to the unit block of Light Street. Police said a woman had been approached by a person who shot her in the face, then ran away.

By Sarah Meehan

Jun 11, 2018

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

By Meredith Cohn

Jun 7, 2018

Baltimore businessman and collector Steve Geppi is shuttering his Geppi's Entertainment Museum and donating a portion of his comics and pop culture collection to the Library of Congress, including original storyboards for the first Mickey Mouse cartoon

By Chris Kaltenbach

May 30, 2018

Despite the cancellation of this year's Little Italy Open Air Film Festival, area cinephiles will have plenty of options for enjoying the great outdoors while watching movies this summer

By Chris Kaltenbach

May 25, 2018

Around the more high-profile — and expensive — apartment towers in Baltimore, developers are converting a myriad of smaller buildings for everyone else.

By Meredith Cohn

May 14, 2018