metro centre at owings mills

Security Square Mall has seen better days, but officials are hopeful that a church that is moving in will help reinvigorate it.

By Cody Boteler

Jan 29, 2019

Tax break offered to Tradepoint developer isn't fair to Baltimore County taxpayers.

Tradepoint Atlantic, the industrial redevelopment of a shuttered steel mill in Baltimore County, is seeking $150 million in government financing to pay for roads, water lines and sewer pipes. Company officials say the financing is necessary to move the project forward.

By Pamela Wood

Sep 7, 2018

The company redeveloping the former Sparrows Point steel mill plans to ask Baltimore County for at least $100 million in public financing to help pay for roads and water and sewer lines.

By Pamela Wood

Jul 25, 2018

Suya Spot, a Nigerian-inspired restaurant in Randallstown, will open a new location in Owings Mills' Metro Centre.

By Wesley Case

Jul 24, 2018

From Thursday through June 21, Marylanders can head to early voting centers — register, if necessary — and cast ballots in the gubernatorial primary election.

Construction has started on a new seven-story apartment building in the Metro Centre in Owings Mills, bringing the total number of apartments in the massive transit-oriented development clustered there at 350.

By Meredith Cohn

Jun 20, 2018

Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz is proposing no tax increases in his latest budget for the county, a nearly $3.3 billion spending plan.

By Pamela Wood

Apr 12, 2018

A Sam’s Club store in Owings Mills closed abruptly on Thursday resulting in 169 lost jobs.

By Pamela Wood

Jan 11, 2018

The shopping landscape is changing and it will be interesting to see what Kimco Realty will be bringing to the former Owings Mills Mall site in addition to a planned Costco warehouse.

The company redeveloping the old steel mill in Sparrows Point is taking the first step toward seeking the county government’s help in paying for roads and water and sewer lines.

By Pamela Wood

Nov 28, 2017

A 148,000-square-foot Costco warehouse store will anchor a new development at the former Owings Mills Mall site, officials announced Tuesday.

By Alison Knezevich

Nov 21, 2017

Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz is joining a crowded Democratic field in the race for Maryland governor.

By Pamela Wood

Sep 18, 2017

A Club Pilates franchisee plans to open three studios in Baltimore County within the next six months.

By Christopher Dinsmore

Aug 8, 2017

World of Beer is among four stores and restaurants that announced plans Wednesday to open at Metro Centre at Owings Mills.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Aug 2, 2017

May 13 is Negro Baseball Leagues Day in Maryland. Here's a look at the Hubert V. Simmons Museum of Negro Leagues Baseball at the Owings Mills Library.

A California salon that bills itself as a men's grooming shop in a "man cave nirvana" is expanding to Maryland, with its first location opening at Metro Centre in Owings Mills within six months.

By Lorraine Mirabella

May 2, 2017

A developer believes the Security Square Mall property in Woodlawn can be turned into a town center concept with retail, office space, restaurants and residential units.

By Jon Bleiweis

Mar 16, 2017

UFood Grill, a fast-casual restaurant, opened its doors Monday at Metro Centre at Owings Mills. 

By Sarah Meehan

Jan 23, 2017

The Pikesville branch of the Baltimore County Public Library and the Pikesville Senior Center have more in common than sharing the Pikesville Community Cent

At the opening of the Owings Mills Mall in 1986, politicians celebrated it as the high-end centerpiece of the emerging, affluent suburb. Thirty years later, workers have encircled the mall with screened fences and are tearing it down.

By Pamela Wood

Oct 30, 2016

Developers in Baltimore city and county need to keep reading their Jane Jacob's "Death and Life of Great American Cities" because much of our development is based on an old model, one that privileges the car. The cities that thrive now are interconnected and built for people. They are safe and interesting to multiple senses; they have effective public transportation and nutritive green space, parks and playgrounds. They are places people go to see beauty and other people, to sit and be seen. Not

UFood Grill, a fast-casual eatery serving breakfast, lunch and dinner, is bringing its first Maryland location to Owings Mills.

UFood Grill, a fast-casual eatery sesrving breakfast, lunch and dinner, is bringing its first Maryland location to Owings Mills.

By Sarah Meehan

Jun 1, 2016

Baltimore County is trying to take advantage of PayPal's decision not to open a 400-employee center in North Carolina, following enactment of a law that is widely viewed as discriminatory.

By Pamela Wood

May 3, 2016

A developer is planning to construct the first new office space in the Woodlawn area in years, betting that the nearby presence of two major federal agencies will help drive tenants to the building.

By Natalie Sherman

Apr 18, 2016

Ellicott City resident Sunny Yoo has won a silver medal in the 2016 German international shoe repair contest for his work at the Metro Cobbler & Co. Shoe Repair shops in Owings Mills and Arundel Mills.

By Andrew Michaels

Feb 29, 2016

A Timonium developer plans to build a strip shopping center on Red Run Boulevard in Owings Mills.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Feb 15, 2016

News and events around Baltimore County.

The Grand Central Eatery is a beautiful, modern facility that boasts amazing, bold colors with comfy seating, work spaces, tables and Wi-Fi.

While Grand Central Avenue is hardly booming, the pieces are slowly being laid for what could be a hugely successful venue.

Just behind the parking garages at the Owings Mills metro station, officials say development of a dense and walkable downtown is starting to take off — validating the idea of the transit oriented development that was first proposed there 15 years ago.

"Green space in cities shouldn't be considered an optional luxury," wrote Charles Montgomery in "Happy City, Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design." He points to an "explosion of research into the benefits of nature," which could include this summer's robust data by researchers in Toronto showing that living on a city block with 10 or more trees on it has the same benefits as boosting your income by $10,000 or being seven years younger. So what is going on with the Metro Centre in Owings

Responding to social media rumors about another planned "purge" on Tuesday afternoon, police responded to various locations in Baltimore City and Baltimore County.

Threatened community rooms

News from schools in Baltimore County

Julian E. Jones Jr. is on a learning curve. He started on the night of June 24, 2014, when he won the Democratic primary for the Baltimore County 4th Councilmanic District. With no Republican opponent in the following November general election, Jones was essentially elected to represent an area where he's lived for 20 years.

The Owings Mills Metro Centre has seen many changes since it was first taken on as a project by developer Metro Transit LLC and manager/leaser David S. Brown Enterprises in the summer of 2011. Though the Metro Centre may have much to offer, the site is far from finished.

Restaurant chain Eggspectation plans to open early next year at Metro Centre at Owings Mills, the transit-oriented project at the Owings Mills Metro Station.

If the city is serious about attracting new residents, it must treat existing ones better.

Hubert V. Simmons was a gentle man who threw a nasty knuckleball in Negro Leagues baseball, and for years he dreamed of establishing a museum that could tell a story about the national pastime before it was really national, when black players were barred from the majors.