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Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will consider a request for up to $35 million in city tax increment financing tied to the proposed doubling of Under Armour's Locust Point headquarters.

Downtown Baltimore lost nearly 10 percent of its jobs in 2011, but demand grew for offices, apartments and hotel rooms and more than 700 new residents moved in, statistics unveiled Thursday by the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore show

The Baltimore City Council's land use committee approved a bill Wednesday that would enable sports apparel maker Under Armour to double the size of its Locust Point headquarters, hire hundreds more workers and help retain the city's last corporate headquarters.

Baltimore Deputy Mayor Christopher Thomaskutty is leaving city government after nine years to become an executive at Mercy Hospital, city officials announced Friday.

Brodie, 75, who will retire from the Baltimore Development Corp. after serving as president under four mayors, is credited with helping usher in major waterfront redevelopment, strengthen neighborhood commercial districts and attract and retain employers.

Baltimore Development Corp. head M.J. "Jay" Brodie announces that he will retire.

Johns Hopkins University President Ronald Daniels told the Baltimore Development Corp. Thursday that the university has a moral obligation to help improve the city.

Members of the soon-to-reconvene Rotunda mall task force speak out about questions they want answered and what they would like to see there.

Exelon's decision to build its local headquarters in Harbor Point drew dismay from those who wanted to see the energy giant settle downtown after its merger with Constellation Energy.

Harbor Point, a development project led by bakery magnate and developer John Paterakis Sr., has been selected as the site of the new headquarters for the combined Constellation-Exelon company if the proposed merger is completed, the two energy giants announced Wednesday.

Baltimore City has terminated its lease with the owners of the Inner Harbor carousel, ordered them to stop giving rides by the end of February and to remove the venerable structure by March 31, according to a letter from the city solicitor's office.

Property taxes on the 10 homes with the biggest bills and the 10 commercial properties at the top of the heap come to an eye-popping $20.5 million, according to a Baltimore Sun analysis. As city officials try to expand Baltimore's tax base, they say they're very glad for these big payers.

Demolishing blight is sometimes needed to revive blighted neighborhoods

Johns Hopkins Health System plans to open an expanded emergency department at Bayview Medical Center by January 2014, followed by a new oncology wing for its lung cancer program.

Baltimore's Board of Estimates approves a four-month extension of a land-sale agreement between the city and developers of the Superblock.

The Baltimore Development Corp. said Thursday it was reissuing a request for proposal to develop three properties, including the former Parkway Theatre, one of the most prominent landmarks in the city's Station North Arts and Entertainment District.

Members of the public had much to say when plans were announced to raze Read's drugstore, but few came Saturday to discuss ways to commemorate the protests after much of the building is torn down.

Activists oppose income inequality, call for better jobs

Tax breaks, disparity between downtown development and opportunities for youth at issue

A historic former school in East Baltimore that has been vacant for years could be transformed into college classrooms or offices under proposals sent to city officials.

As Baltimore's mayoral candidates present their economic development credentials and plans, economists warn that Baltimore stands at a crossroads: The city must draw new businesses and boost job opportunities or face continued population loss, declining property values and more crime.

Graziano dodged two political bullets on his way to becoming city's longest-serving housing chief

In the last couple of weeks the planned State Center project has faced challenges that at the least could shift public opinion or lead to delays, but state officials vowed to push ahead with the project.

John R. Burleigh 2d, a civil rights activist who had been chairman of the employment committee of the Congress of Racial Equality, died July 9 of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The longtime Hunting Ridge resident was 86.

John R. Burleigh 2d., a civil rights activist who had been chairman of the employment committee of the Congress of Racial Equality, died July 9 of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The longtime Hunting Ridge resident was 86.

Did city agency blab about Phillips-Cordish romance?

Qayum Karzai backs out of Chesapeake development project.

Sprawling enterprise began with Ocean City crab shack in 1956

City officials have granted second six-month extension to an agreement with the developers behind West Baltimore's $150 million Superblock project.

Baltimore manufacturer Wm. T. Burnett & Co. and a subsidiary have won a city bid to redevelop property on Wicomico Street in Southwest Baltimore to expand the company's operations.

The head of the quasi-public city agency that negotiated a 2007 deal over a parcel of land near the city's planned slots parlor defended the handling of the agreement Wednesday

Under the circumstances, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake was right to settle with developers for $1.2 million to clear up the rights to the preferred site for a Baltimore casino, but the city should never have been in this position in the first place.

Lexington Square developers request more time to solidify plans.