mary pat clarke
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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. - After several years of stalemate, Giant Food and Hekemian & Co., owner of the Rotunda mall, struck a deal that lets Giant out of its long-term lease and lets Hekemian rent to a smaller "boutique" grocer, such as a Trader Joe's. That should facilitate redevelopment of the mall, said Giant and Hekemian officials.
- Roland Park: Rotunda mall waiting for redevelopment, as Giant announces departure; mall owner Hekemian & Co. pushing to bring in "boutique" grocer.
- Giant closing its store at Rotunda, reopening at site of Fresh & Green's down the street in Hampden. Giant also taking over Fresh & Green's in Parkville.
- Giant closing its store at Rotunda, reopening at site of Fresh & Green's down the street in Hampden. Giant also taking over Fresh & Green's in Parkville.
- After more than a decade of planning, Charles Village and Johns Hopkins University are preparing for two years of traffic disruptions along Charles Street.
- More than 50 developers, architects, residents and city officials come to prebid conference for project to redevelop a block of vacant houses in Remington..
- After a record low percentage of Baltimore voters trickled into the polls last year, politicians and community advocates are pushing to shift the city's election cycle to lure more people to vote.
- Disappointed residents send city back to the drawing board after hearing the architect's new plans for renovating and expanding the Waverly Library.
- Catholic Charities to run Green House, a group home-style long-term nursing care faciity run by the Govans Ecumenical Development Corp.
- Baltimore should learn from last year's fiasco and withdraw support for Grand Prix
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- $36 million spent since $60 million program began in 2006
- Speakers rotated at a dais and intoned the names of 111 who died after experiencing homelessness.
- North Baltimore's first brewery planned in old bottling plant in Abell/Waverly
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- Public and private sector efforts are under way to redevelop vacant houses in Remington.
- Private operators would take over six city recreation centers under a deal that was slated to go before Baltimore's spending board Wednesday. Late Monday a spokesman for Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said that the spending board would defer its decision on the contracts.
- Union Memorial Hospital starts federally mandated community health assessments
- A year after merchants experienced a spate of shootings along what is supposed to be an up-and-coming thoroughfare, another killing at a carryout — the third there in two years — has pushed many merchants to the breaking point.
- Homeless advocates and a civil rights groups renewed threats Tuesday to sue the city over discrimination at its newly completed $8 million shelter, which offers far fewer beds for women than men.
- Baltimore City Council's decision to nix tax break for urban farmers is a big mistake
- 'If a developer came to you, you'd give out the tax breaks,' Clarke says
- Hampden merchants complain to police and city officials about students from the ACCE school fighting and being rude and disruptive as they walk home from school. One merchant said she photographed and videotaped (too far away) a fight and that one student deliberately kicked over planters outside her stire, then refused to apologized after a police officer stopped hm.
- $10.4 million spent defending city officers in past three years
- Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake went to a dilapidated East Baltimore elementary school Monday to urge the City Council to adopt her plan to raise the city's bottle tax to help pay for a major school renovation program.
- The Waverly Merchants Association is disbanding, a blow to restaurateur Casey Jenkins' vision of an improved Greenmount Avenue corridor. Jenkins, the owner of Darker Than Blue Café, helped found the merchants association five years ago, but now says rising crime and lack of interest from police and merchants alike has caused the association to call it quits.
- Two Baltimore City Council candidates were poised to overcome write-in challenges Tuesday, converting their Democratic nominations into general election victories.
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- Voters who cast ballots in Tuesday's general election will also have a chance to weigh in on two issues concerning the city's younger residents – although the impact of both initiatives is unclear.
- Members of the Republican, Green and Libertarian parties are often divided by strong ideological differences in national politics. But in Baltimore, candidates from the three parties emphatically agree on at least one point: The long-running dominance of Democrats in city politics is detrimental.
- A day after a hearing with Recreation and Parks officials, residents and City Council members are questioning the mayor's plans for consolidating and renovating or closing the city's 55 recreation centers.
- No recreation centers in the city will close this fiscal year, city official says
- Baltimore homicide detective canvassed Greenmount Avenue on Wednesday morning in hopes of drumming up tips in the killing of Freddie Jones Jr., an Army veteran and shuttle bus driver at Thurgood Marshall Baltimore Washington International Airport.
- A 52-year-old man was fatally shot in the chest Monday evening at a carryout restaurant in Waverly that has been the scene of other gun violence in recent years.
- Belinda Conaway, a two-term City Councilwoman, chair of the council's budget committee and the daughter of a prominent political family, has launched a write-in campaign in which she paints herself as an enemy of the political establishment.
- Retired McCormick spice official was a city neighborhoods champion active in local Democratic politics
- Retired McCormick spice official was a city neighborhoods champion active in local Democratic politics
- Baltimore schools CEO Andrés Alonso said Friday that he plans to close more than a dozen schools over the next two years in an effort to address underused and dilapidated buildings.
- Baltimore received bids Wednesday to run just seven of the 31 recreation centers officials hoped to hand over to third parties by the end of the year — potentially jeopardizing programming at the financially-strapped centers.
- Parents to protest city plan to privatize Roosevelt Recreation Center, Hampden
