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The Harford County Council is continuing to look into the possibility of buying a Joppatowne swim club that closed abruptly right as the summer began.

The city of Aberdeen plans to spend $685,000 to buy three homes on Franklin Street, between the senior center and the library, as well as Rock Glen Park.

Anyone who doesn't think so need only take a short drive on a back road in the Deer Creek Valley to see that nothing happening has an awful lot of value.

The owner of the former General Motors Corp. factory site in southeast Baltimore has applied for a city permit to build a huge warehouse that would employ up to 2,600 people, according to documents filed with the city's planning department.

Remington holds a picnic to stress the importance of recycling and hands out bins. The mayor will be there. This is for a story about the community's hot status with a wave of redevelopment planned.

Baltimore's Little Italy is aging and faces competition from newer, trendier neighborhoods such as Harbor East and concerns about crime.

The Greysteel Company's single tenant net lease investment group, led by Vice President Peter Snell, has been named exclusive advisor and agent for a ground lease 7-Eleven in Aberdeen

A new Baltimore homeowner shares her experience of buying in the city for the first time.

Sidney Silber, a retired real estate developer, philanthropist and accomplished gardener who once ran his family's bakery, died of cancer Tuesday at his Lutherville home. He was 95.

Increased interest in urban living and a tight supply have made Baltimore's rental market extremely competitive in recent years.

Seawall Development Corp. unveils detailed plans for redeveloping three blocks of Remington Avenue with restaurants, apartments, nonprofit office space and lots of retail

About 75 to 100 concerned residents of Joppatowne and their supporters crowded under the pavilion at Mariner Point Park Wednesday in order to learn more about what could be done to save the community pool at Mariner Point Swim Club.

Prices have improved modestly in the past six months, according to multiple list data

Competition among convenience store chains has heated up in the Baltimore area as retailers vie to win over consumers with a redefined view of "convenience."

The city's housing department has awarded exclusive negotiating rights to Baltimore Free Farm, an urban farming group, buy two vacant, city-owned lots that border the group's community garden in Hampden. Baltimore Free Farm beat out a developer who wanted to build housing on the lots.

Letter: The June 26, cartoon "Church To Eliminate Joppatowne Pool" attempt at humor is a very ambiguous image and epithet that is neither funny nor factual

Several dozen people gathered in downtown Annapolis Tuesday morning to launch a group called Coalition to Save Annapolis.

Baltimore Free Farm, a Hampden-based organization that does urban farming and community gardening, has been running community gardens on Ash Street in Hampden, but now, the city wants to sell two of the lots that the group uses. Baltimore Free Farm iscomplaining about the sale, but has also put in a bid to buy those lots.

Havre de Grace's City Council approved the proposed $14.8 million budget for 2014 on Monday, with council members calling it a milestone in decreased spending.

Rick Walker, jilted developer of a Remington shopping center with a Walmart, claims in court papers that Bruce Mortimer, owner of the land, conspired to terminate the sale to Walker, so that Mortimer could sell to another suitor instead. Mortimer has asked a judge to OK the termination, and announced he is now selling the land to Seawall Development Corp.

When Charm City Builders' model home is completed later this year, the top two floors will be finished and furnished and the lower level will be a sales and design center, where buyers can look through carpet samples and select bathroom fixtures.

Havre de Grace Councilmen Fred Cullum, John Correri and Randy Craig were sworn into their new council seats, and Mayor Wayne Dougherty was back at the helm of the council Monday night.

Anderson Automotive's Bruce Mortimer, who pulled the plug on the sale of the 25th Street Station land in Remington to developer Rick Walker, now says he has a new buyer for the 11-acre site. Meanwhile, his lawsuit is still pending against Walker.

General contractor John Brooks has a contract to buy the Crittenton House, a historic property in Hampden, and says he wants to build 11 apartments and 19 townhouses on the site. But the Maryland Historical Trust would have to waive an easement that prohibits new construction, and area residents, backed by City Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke, are opposing the project.

Six Baltimore community groups filed an $8 million lawsuit Tuesday against a Texas man whose companies own dozens of vacant and blighted homes in the city.

Bottom line up front, the members of the City Council felt that the purchase of this property is truly a win-win for the City of Havre de Grace

In less than a month, Havre de Grace voters will decide whether to potentially extend the city's public waterfront holdings north of the Concord Point Lighthouse through the $1.29 million purchase of a home and surrounding property belonging to a former city councilman's family.

The Havre de Grace City Council unveiled the waterfront park the city plans to build if it acquires Steve Gamatoria's property just north of the Concord Point Lighthouse.

After nearly 17 years as a tenant at Pheasant Run Shopping Center, New Life Christian Center has purchased the plaza with the intent of revitalizing it.

Because of the increasing role of the web in home buying and selling, the variety of ways for buyers and sellers to enter the market have never been greater.

Four of the six jurisdictions that have bounced back to their pre-recession levels of growth are in the Charm City metro.

If you want to live in Howard County, one of Maryland¿s fastest-growing jurisdictions, where it¿s competitive ¿ and can be pricey ¿ to buy a home, consider attending the 7th Annual Come Home to Howard County Housing Fair.

The family owners of The Inn at the Black Olive in Fells Point hope a bankruptcy filing Thursday will give them time to try to attract investors and keep operating the 2-year-old boutique hotel, their bankruptcy attorney said.

A dispute between the owner of an 11-acre site in Remington and the developer that plans to build a Walmart-anchored shopping center there has thrown the project's future into doubt.

The seller of an 11-acre site in Remington, where developer Rick Walker was planning to build a shopping center with a Walmart called 25th Street Station, has terminated the sale and filed a legal complaint against Walker, casting into doubt the future of the development.

The Bel Air town commissioners honored two local men Monday for their work with the Greater Bel Air Community Foundation, a nearly 15-year-old nonprofit which has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars toward community projects in Bel Air and the surrounding areas.

Baltimore County homeowners would pay between $18 and $36 a year for storm water management under a plan by County Executive Kevin Kamenetz's administration to meet new state environmental requirements for reducing pollution in the Chesapeake Bay.

The Howard County Council Monday voted to approve a zoning amendment ushering forward the redevelopment of the Normandy Shopping Center in Ellicott City.

Chesapeake Habitat for Humanity gets a $1 million grant to build houses in the Woodbourne-McCabe neighborhood in north/northeast Baltimore, and Pigtown and Mount Winans in south Baltimore. The money will help fund the rehabbing of 21 dilapidated row houses in the 600-800 block of McCabe Avenue off York Road and construction of a park. The city is supporting the project.

Gay Lynn Diffenderffer had no idea that her husband was growing marijuana at their Baltimore County home, her attorney says, until state police investigating his mysterious disappearance discovered about 100 plants in a locked basement.

Harford police blotter

Two summer cabins were broken into by burglars in the Lapidum area. A large quantity of fishing gear was stolen from both of them. Rods, reels and other fishing equipment, valued at $550, was stolen from one cabin and similar items were stolen from a second cabin whose value was estimated at $18. A body was found near the Route 7 bridge along the railroad tracks in Havre de Grace. The 68-year-old man, identified as W. Morgan Holloway, was lying between two Pennsylvania Railroad tracks. The

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