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Nine hours of testimony, spread over three weeks, wrapped up Wednesday evening in a long-running Harford County zoning appeals case for a 198-unit apartment complex planned in the Bel Air South area.

Enterprise Homes project to include 54 townhouses

The Target opening this fall in Canton at one of the city's largest new retail developments will be joined by a Harris Teeter grocery store and a lineup of tenants including Old Navy, Michaels, Loft, ULTA Beauty and Red Robin Gourmet Burgers.

A consultant to the Rotunda re-developer, Hekemian & Co. says that the announcement of supermarket and other tenants, including restaurants, is imminent. Consultant Al Barry also says permits will be applied for by the end of the year.

The Park Plaza building, which was ravaged in a December 2010 fire, has lined up a new tenant. Dooby's, a coffee shop, will open in the former Indigma space in spring 2013.

Rotunda redeveloper agrees to include on-site parking spaces in rents at redeveloped mall, which pleases nearby residents, who also want their own city Residential Parking Program area for Elm Avenue and 38th Street, so Rotunda tenants can't park on those streets and steal parking from the neighborhood.

Baltimore's Office of Human Services mismanaged a $9.5 million grant for homeless intervention by failing to oversee programs administering the money and awarding cash for possibly ineligible services, federal auditors announced Thursday. The city disputes the findings outlined in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development audit.

Baltimore's political and business leaders praised the New York-based real estate investment firm purchasing Harborplace as a potential savior for the Inner Harbor mall that has struggled to find the right mix of tenants to appeal to both tourists and locals.

Harborplace has been sold to a New York real estate investment firm that owns office and retail centers across the country, according to a statement Tuesday from Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.

Harborplace has been sold to a New York real estate investment firm that owns office and retail centers across the country, according to a statement Tuesday from Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.

The rental market is fertile ground for con artists. Many rental scams target tenants, but landlords can be victimized, too.

The experts are in agreement: the threat of automatic spending cuts by the federal government caused companies to press the pause button on real estate expansion in the Baltimore region during the third quarter.

Giant Food has put its former dry goods warehouse in Jessup on the market.

Apartments that flood after heavy rain, leaking raw sewage, a bat infestation, mold, loitering illicit drug users and an unsanitary community swimming pool are among the concerns to be raised this week when members of the Bush River Community Council meet with the new management team at the Perrywood Garden Apartments complex southeast of the Aberdeen city limits in Perryman.

The Maryland Transportation Authority says it is stepping up its efforts to collect more than $6 million in tolls that have gone unpaid.

Howard Hughes purchased a nine-story office building adjacent to the Columbia Mall in downtown Columbia.

The redevelopment of Laurel Mall into a $130 million mixed-use, open-air plaza called Towne Centre at Laurel began Aug. 14 with an invitation-only groundbreaking ceremony.

After going through ownership changes, scrubbed designs and, to the chagrin of local officials and residents, being several years behind its promised construction schedule, the $130 million makeover of the now-closed Laurel Mall is finally happening.

Fallston's Aumar Village seeking high-end grocery store for shopping center

W. Baltimore family moves out on deadline of eviction they blame on criminal actions of adult sons.

Developer Steve Whalen said confusion about an eatery to be included in the development of a Catonsville medical office stems from him not being clear.

Residents of Elm Avenue and 38th Street are seeking permit parking and garage spaces included in the rents for town houses that are being built near them as part of redevelopment of the Rotunda mall.

An open-air plaza surrounded by yet-to-be-selected restaurant and retail tenants is planned to be built at the Mall in Columbia in the space currently occupied by the L.L. Bean store, mall owner General Growth Properties announced Tuesday.

An "open-air plaza" surrounded by yet-to-be-selected restaurant and retail tenants is planned to be built at the Mall in Columbia in the space currently occupied by the L.L. Bean store, mall owner General Growth Properties announced Tuesday.

City architectural review panel objects to 'inside-out' redesign of North Baltimore's landmark Rotunda shopping center.

John DeWolf, who delivered a downtown development update to the Columbia Association on Thursday, said in his presentation that Howard Hughes is currently in "significant" negotiations with a number of potential tenants and specifically referenced Whole Foods.

Parking woes at the American Can Co. complex as it overflows with workers and visitors competing with residents for street parking

The groundbreaking for a shopping center on a 25-acre site just south of Brewers Hill is set for next month, the developer said Monday.

The reopening of Annapolis' Market House, set for this October, is likely to be delayed.

With Sur La Table and Lilly Pulitzer, the luxury wing of Towson Town Center will get its biggest influx of new stores since the addition opened nearly four years ago.

The five-floor Park Plaza building in Mount Vernon is bustling again, less than two years after a five-alarm fire destroyed the historic structure's interior and displaced its tenants.

Neither are Indigma or My Thai, the other former restaurant tenants of the Mount Vernon property that was damaged in a December 2010 fire.

Daniel J. Shapiro, 27, is a senior vice president at Cresa, one of the world's largest real estate consulting companies that only represents tenants.

A Baltimore landlord with a long history of violating lead-paint poisoning laws was sentenced to a year and a day in prison by a federal judge, who called the now-bankrupt businessman a "scofflaw."

For years, restaurants in Power Plant have served food and drinks on floating piers in the Inner Harbor, allowing tourists and locals to enjoy in the summer sunshine. But recent plans to expand or improve the facilities have triggered hefty bills from state regulators.

Laurel Gardens overlay plan was approved by the Laurel City Council May 30, despite concerns from residents who spoke at the council's public hearing.

Finding little to fault in the design of the first building project in the downtown Columbia redevelopment process, residents at a community meeting Tuesday night presented concerns regarding traffic and affordable housing

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake tours the downtown area Friday night after reports of a St. Patrick's Day disturbance is scaring some people away. She announces summer police deployment plan.

CDC action could cause sixfold increase in Maryland children potentially at risk

The Laurel Planning Commission Tuesday unanimously recommended approval of the Laurel Gardens redevelopment, a project that has raised concerns from residents of the 79-unit apartment and townhouse complex and neighboring property owners.

The Laurel Mall has been desolate for years. Empty stores have long outnumbered those still full with tenants and the majority of customers have since found other places to conduct their shopping. But the mall did not officially close until May 1.

Green Spring Tower Square shopping center in Hampden is repositioning itself to attract national tenants, now that it has Giant has an anchor, says Mark Manzo, whose family owns the center. Manzo also says he wants to be a partner in redevelopment of the Rotunda and the building of 25th Street Station. And he hopes to get the on-again, off-again Skyview condo development off the ground, on land that overlooks the center, and that that project is closely linked with the repositioning of the

Towson City Center's building's leasing firm, Cassidy Turley, said Wednesday, May 2, that only the fifth and sixth floors of the 157,712-square-foot, office building redevelopment remained unleased. Each of those two floors has about 12,000 square feet of space, according to company officials.