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Given the local experience with giving tax breaks to large corporations only to see the resulting economic development evaporate after a few short years, it's time for Harford County, Maryland – and every other government entity in country, for that matter – to reconsider the wisdom of offering such deals.

The Community Development Network, a coalition of nonprofits and government agencies, recently launched the Consider the Person campaign, which aims to end discrimination against housing voucher recipients.

Fewer Americans are expected to travel long distances for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday than last year, despite the lowest gas prices in years, AAA predicted Wednesday.

Laurel Shopping Center was a pioneer in local retail, and the men behind its development were visionaries who turned a then-radical idea into a successful enterprise that helped change the face of retail in the Baltimore/Washington area.

St. John Properties, Inc. has selected Charm City Concierge to support the approximately 45 companies situated within The Government and Technology Enterprise (The GATE) project, with a full complement of business and personal concierge services.

The longtime Maryland tradition of Senior Week, in which high school graduates swarm to the beach for sun and not entirely legal fun, is in the spotlight after Maryland attorney general and gubernatorial candidate Doug Gansler was photographed in the middle of a party where underage kids were drinking.

Bel Air Town Center, which will soon be home to Maryland's first drive-through only Starbucks, recently got a facelift. The 93,000-square-foot neighborhood shopping destination, at the intersection of Routes 1 and 24, has undergone a $1 million renovation and improvement program.

Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz announced Thursday that Bonefish Grill, BJ's Restaurant and Brewhouse, Hanabi Japanese Restaurant and the Bobby Flay-inspired Bobby's Burger Palace, as the four newest future tenants of Towson Square.

Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz will join the developers of Towson Square Thursday to announce a new set of tenants for the $85 million entertainment complex in downtown Towson.

St. Vincent de Paul Society's Front Door program is due in the Baltimore suburbs, where the population of poor has grown. Front Door recognizes that subsistence strategies like soup kitchen lines and homeless shelters are mere holding actions. The program teaches financial planning, among other skills, and moves clients into housing with the rent covered for a time.

The Shops at Canton Crossing has been years in the making and under construction for months in Canton, where it has two entrances along Boston Street. When it officially opens Tuesday afternoon, about two thirds of the 30 shops and restaurants will either have opened or be on the verge of opening,

Developers have completed $1 million in renovations to Bel Air Town Center that include new facades, lighting, signage and outdoor restaurant seating.

The Carroll County Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously approved the final site plan for Eldersburg Commons Oct. 2, ending a years-long decline of the Carrolltown Center on Liberty Road.

The first housing development in the Lansdowne in many years has an unusual feature of providing its tenants with an opportunity to own their homes after 15 years.

Sykesville has entered into negotiations with The Warfield Collaborative (TWC), a team of regional business people, to purchase the Warfield Complex.

After a contentious series of hearings, the City Council is expected on Monday to grant developer Michael Beatty $107 million in public financing for Harbor Point, the capped hazardous waste site envisioned as home to a new office tower as well as housing, shopping and parks.

Annapolis Mayor Josh Cohen "walked the plank" and took a dip into the city's harbor on Saturday, a self-imposed punishment for failing to meet a deadline to reopen the city's historic Market House.

Day one of Rotunda mall redevelopment finds construction already under way.

Dozens attend the "soft" reopening of the historic Annapolis Market House after ten years of false starts.

If Maryland's goal is to rehabilitate young people, they should be kept away from older criminals

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.

Rotunda redeveloper sets groundbreaking deadline at meeting Tuesday evening

Using funds meant to help poor families find affordable places to live, Baltimore's public housing agency has paid nearly $6.8 million to satisfy long-standing court judgments against it for lead poisoning suffered by six former residents when they were young children years ago.

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

Three years after local officials made a $5.6 million bet to lure Lieber to the research park, the Lieber Institute has surpassed job growth goals set out for it and is expanding.

Plans for a $125 million, two-structure apartment complex in Columbia's Warfield neighborhood were revealed this week, making it the third major housing development announced in the redevelopment of Columbia's downtown.

Optimism abounds for Caves Valley Partners' plan to build Towson Row, a one million square foot mixed-use community off York Road near Towsontown Boulevard. There's demand for new construction and the walkable experience that the project aims to create, real estate experts say.

A car rental company near BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport was evacuated for more than four hours on Friday night after staff noticed a suspicious device and alerted police, according to the Maryland State Fire Marshal.

The purpose of this letter is to notify Maryland State and Local representatives of the impending closure of the U.S. Army Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) Museum at the end of this fiscal year!

The Improved Order of Red Men are gone, but the old Red Men's Hall in Hampden could soon be bustling again, with plans for a pub, an art gallery and a cafe or sushi restaurant at 3600 Hickory Ave.

In Baltimore courts, system is stacked against the poor and in favor of landlords

The project, which will be opened in phases, will add 40,000 sq. ft. and redevelop the L.L. Bean into an "open-air lifestyle center and streetscape" that will include two rows of restaurants and retail divided by a courtyard walkway leading to a new mall entrance.

After more than a decade of cajoling, legal wrangling and building, the residences at Uplands, the $238 million residential community in Southwest Baltimore, are coming to life.

In what lawyers say is a record amount in a bedbug case, an Anne Arundel County jury awarded the 69-year-old woman $800,000 this week. Most of that amount – $650,000, which is more than she sought – was in punitive damages.

If Republicans won't allow an up-or-down vote on Tom Perez's confirmation as labor secretary, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid should pursue the substantive filibuster reform he shied away from in January.

The Maryland state government is buying a century-old post office in downtown Annapolis, with plans to expand it and use it for state offices.

Bel Air's Harford Mall and Abingdon's new Boulevard at Box Hill continue to bring in new businesses even as some old ones leave.

No new leases have been announced for Laurel Mall, renamed Town Centre at Laurel, but agreements for tenants that residents have heard about for some time have been officially finalized and the project's construction is said to be on track.

Is Baltimore's traditional downtown hollowing out in favor of shiny, new Harbor East, and is the city subsidizing it all through property tax breaks?

Rejecting tenants because they pay with Section 8 vouchers is unfair and furthers segregation

T. Rowe Price, which has been a fixture in downtown Baltimore since its founding 76 years ago, is considering moving its headquarters once its current lease expires in 2017, the company said Wednesday.

A half-empty former shopping mall in Eldersburg will be remade as a Walmart anchored-plaza under plans announced Monday by owner Black Oak Associates.

Marylanders would find it easier to buy auto coverage from a state insurance fund, foster children would gain protection from identity thieves and debtors would be less likely to be jailed under bills recently passed by lawmakers.

Black marks scuff the staircase at 922 N. Charles St., left there by frustrated tenants kicking the wall in a vain attempt to make their neighbor, The Museum Restaurant and Lounge, quiet down. Most nights, tenants say, the sound of DJs hyping up the crowd rattles china cabinets and nerves alike.

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.

Advocates ask lawmakers to update 600-year-old eviction law