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Martin L. Millspaugh Jr., who shaped the redevelopment of downtown Baltimore from the demolition of the old O’Neill’s department store through the Inner Harbor, died of cancer Tuesday at Roland Park Place.

Jeff Middlebrooks, a city planner who helped place Oriole Park at Camden Yards in its downtown Baltimore location, died of complications of flu and lung disease Jan. 27 at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Patterson Place resident was 75.

Hanging in the lobby of David Cordish's office is a framed ledger his grandfather used to record the monthly rent payments on the apartments he owned near what

Pimlico is reimagined but hard realities remain. The 147-year-old track could be part of new, mixed-use development but the owner said that represents a 'high-risk gamble.'

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.

Lexington Market has experienced many transformations in its 234-year-old history, and a plan to tear down and rebuild it would just be the latest one, historians said.

The Exelon building opening is a significant step for Harbor Point, a Beatty Development project that has been in the works for more than a decade.

Hundreds of residents at the J. Van Story Branch are living in a building that is dangerous, bug-infested, and in desperate need of basic repairs. The 20-story building, located on W. 20th Street between Charles and Maryland avenues is owned by the Housing Authority of Baltimore City (HABC) and houses mostly elderly and disabled people in its 350 apartments. It is visibly infested with rodents, insects, and parasites, which can be particularly harmful for those whose health is fragile. Since

John Paterakis, the multimillionaire risk-taking baker who built his H&S Bakery into the largest privately owned in the country, redeveloped Harbor East, and made governors and mayors his political beneficiaries, died Sunday. He was 87.

After the secretive start, plans for the Port Covington development have advanced loudly.

On March 28, when 900 N. Payson St. fell on Thomas Lemmon, a 69-year-old retired truck driver in his prized Cadillac, it was one more tragic reminder of the

Charles W. "Bill" Pacy, an entrepreneur and developer who enjoyed sailing, died Saturday of congestive heart failure at Brookdale, a Naples, Fla., assisted-living facility. He was 87.

City restoration needs more than $700 million, it needs the involvement of the arts community

Calling Baltimore's abandoned rowhouses "hotbeds for crime," Gov. Larry Hogan on Tuesday announced a nearly $700 million plan to tear down thousands of vacant buildings and replace them with new developments — a level of investment in Baltimore's poorest neighborhoods some say is unprecedented.

Phyllis E. Sachs, who was recognized by then-Mayor William Donald Schaefer for reviving the Neighborhood Design Center, which was facing closure in the 1970s, died Friday at the Edenwald retirement community in Towson of cancer. She was 92.

"It's a Waterfront Life" attractions, including the ice rink, run through Jan. 19.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Some say the struggles of the Inner Harbor carousel — which received a more forgiving lease this month — speak to the limits of smaller projects and the need for a bigger scope when it comes to changing the dynamic of the south side of the waterfront.

Faced with filling big shoes and changing the focus of the Baltimore Development Corp., the agency's new head has yet to make her mark on the city's lead economic development organization.

Although their purpose has evolved, enterprise zones are useful wherever they help create jobs in a city struggling with high unemployment

Since the 1980s, Baltimore has greatly expanded its Enterprise Zone tax credit program, offering multimillion-dollar tax breaks to developers in many of the city's most popular neighborhoods.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake says the city has nothing to lose and much to gain by borrowing $107 million to pay for new roads, parks and other infrastructure at Harbor Point, a vast emptiness that is envisioned as a glittering mini-city on Baltimore's waterfront. But some question whether the taxpayer help is needed, especially with Harbor Point already in line for $113 million in tax breaks.

H&S Development Corp.'s plans for an expanded Whole Foods Market and a department store could boost Harbor East real estate and plans for a bustling Central Avenue corridor.

Now that Brenda McKenzie, a economic development officer from Boston, has taken on the title of president and CEO, she faces the same challenge Brodie confronted 17 years ago: What should the BDC's priorities be and what are the best ways to achieve them?

Lucille Gorham, a longtime East Baltimore neighborhood activist whose "quick wits and good-natured tenacity" equipped her as the voice of poor residents who lived near Johns Hopkins Hospital, died of cancer Saturday at her Belair-Edison home. She was 81.

With the future of its top leadership uncertain, the directors of the Baltimore Development Corp., the city's influential, quasi-public economic development arm, met Thursday — the first time in 16 years that M.J. "Jay" Brodie was not in charge.

Rotunda mall redevelopers to expand plaza and add green space

After 16 years, M.J. "Jay" Brodie is stepping down as the head of Baltimore's influential, quasi-public economic development arm, the Baltimore Development Corp.

Baltimore City's urban design panel questions why Rotunda redevelopment is planned without an interior mall

The developer of the city-owned land over Shot Tower Metro station wants to again revise its plans for the parcel, which has sat unused since 2004, the city's development corporation said Wednesday.

The operators of Baltimore's city-owned Hilton gathered Thursday to defend the hotel's financial reputation, saying that its $11.5 million loss last year was largely due to accounting requirements.

With a half-dozen key resignations at Baltimore City Hall, some political observers say they're concerned about the recent loss of institutional knowledge in Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's administration.

As Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III announced retirement plans Thursday, Sheryl Goldstein, who served as a liaison between the Police Department and the mayor's office, also said she would resign.

Developers have proposed building a $19 million apartment tower in an area slated for revitalization on downtown's west side that would include 92 affordable and market-rate rentals but require city and state tax subsidies.

Baltimore must recognize that tax subsidies for projects like Superblock are self-defeating