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Havre de Grace quickest to respond; Baltimore City provides incomplete information

Columbia Association should tweak plans for Symphony Woods to spare as many trees as possible

An open-air plaza surrounded by yet-to-be-selected restaurant and retail tenants is planned to be built at the Mall in Columbia in the space currently occupied by the L.L. Bean store, mall owner General Growth Properties announced Tuesday.

Hughes Corp. announced Wednesday that Whole Foods Market has signed a lease to open a store inside the former Rouse Company building in downtown Columbia. The store is scheduled to open in late summer or early fall of 2014..

An "open-air plaza" surrounded by yet-to-be-selected restaurant and retail tenants is planned to be built at the Mall in Columbia in the space currently occupied by the L.L. Bean store, mall owner General Growth Properties announced Tuesday.

The Columbia Association's plan for Symphony Woods, with plenty of input from residents and experts, aims to make the park the 'crown jewel of a New Columbia'

The Howard County Zoning Board Wednesday night unanimously approved preliminary plans to redevelop the Wilde Lake Village Center with a minimum of 85,000 square feet of commercial space and a maximum of 250 residential units.

Discussion of the legislation between the County Council and Howard Hughes at a work session June 21 showed communication problems and a power struggles that hint at a strained relationship and raise questions about how successful that partnership can be.

Though sales for luxury items — from diamond rings to well-appointed SUVs — continue to grow, erratic financial markets and a deepening European debt crisis have caused that growth to slow recently, raising the question of weather luxury retail will continue to flourish this year.

With Sur La Table and Lilly Pulitzer, the luxury wing of Towson Town Center will get its biggest influx of new stores since the addition opened nearly four years ago.

Howard County embarks on the next frontier in Columbia: a 30-year redevelopment of the center, home to the Mall of Columbia, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Symphony Woods, many office buildings and some 3,000 residents.

Zoning for the Owings Mills Wegmans is a matter of countywide concern.

Baltimore County paid for only County Executive's travel; Council members paid own way

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake tours the downtown area Friday night after reports of a St. Patrick's Day disturbance is scaring some people away. She announces summer police deployment plan.

Boscov's department store will return to White Marsh Mall Oct. 7, filling an empty anchor spot the regional chain vacated nearly four years ago in a bankruptcy restructuring.

Nearly four years after closing, Boscov's department store will reopen at White Marsh Mall in November, shopping center owner General Growth Properties announced Thursday.

Developers unveil preliminary plans for $100 million Town Center project in Columbia

Visit Baltimore, the city's quasi-public marketing and tourism arm, is asking the Hampden Village Merchants Association to pay a membership fee of up to $20,000 per year to join the agency.

Town Center Village Board concerned about traffic with coming Warfield development

Downtown's The Gallery gets two new food shops

Several streets around the Inner Harbor will close from 3 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday for a helicopter lift to replace air conditioning units at Harborplace and The Gallery, city officials said.

Columbia Association has revealed its new logo, replacing the familiar "People Tree" tree symbol with another tree, this one a logo that CA actually owns

The Columbia Foundation, a 43-year-old philanthropic organization, will soon have a new leader three months after its last president and CEO departed

David Costello, owner of Columbia-based Costello Construction and general contractor of the Columbia Lakefront building on Lake Kittimaqundi, has purchased the controv...

General Growth Properties will spend $1.8 million improving a seven-building office complex in Columbia's town center, its leasing agent said Thursday.

A Beltsville technology company that bought a former department store building in Glen Burnie said this week it plans to convert it into a sprawling data center for government and commercial customers.

The Village of Cross Keys has been sold by General Growth Properties to Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp., a retail and office property investor, according to a notice to tenants.

The new 16-step development process for downtown Columbia has caused confusion among developers, residents and county officials in recent months, and...

Ripley's Believe It or Not! has finalized plans to open an "odditorium" museum at Baltimore's Inner Harbor early this summer.

The Genesis of Columbia: Nearly 50 years have passed since James Rouse began secretly buying up the land that became Howard County's largest city

Environmentally friendly plan needed for Symphony Woods

Among the more mundane design guidelines for the redevelopment of the Mall in Columbia that were shared by planners came interesting bits of...

McCormick officials announced Tuesday that the company would open a retail operation inside the Light Street pavilion of Harborplace this summer.

The mall event was one of three major economic development announcements within six months for an area that has long waited for a makeover. But a battle is simmering between developers.

A community meeting has been scheduled for Jan. 17 for a proposed Lifestyle Center at the Mall in Columbia that would create…

Fireworks will light the sky over the Inner Harbor on New Year's Eve after a donation from The Baltimore Sun gave the city the money it needs to put on the annual display.

Eleventh-hour pledges for the annual New Year's Eve fireworks display have taken fundraising more than halfway to the $75,000 minimum needed to stage the Inner Harbor spectacle next month, organizers said Thursday.

General Growth Properties, a Chicago-based company that owns the Mall in Columbia, announced Monday, August 1, the transfer of 30 malls into a new real estate trust named Rouse Properties, Inc.