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Greenberg Gibbons and Seritage Growth Properties formed a joint venture partnership to redevelop a 13.75-acre parcel to expand Hunt Valley Towne Centre in northern Baltimore County.

Stanley Black & Decker claims in a lawsuit filed in federal court this week that Sears has violated an agreement over how the struggling retail chain can market the Craftsman brand of tools.

Lands' End, which has operated store-in-a-store locations in the now troubled Sears chain, is remaking itself with new standalone stores, including the first in Maryland in Hunt Valley.

TownMall of Westminster evolved in 2018, after a change in ownership the previous year, incorporating local businesses, such as the Cob51 art studio and R/C Theatres, which installed reclining seats in the theater.

Baltimore-area businesses weathered failed deals, layoffs, closings and restructuring in 2018. But some started new chapters by expanding or merging, and new development sprouted all over and one new industry spread like a weed.

On a recent Saturday night, in a very nostalgic mood, I went to the Sears store at Harford Mall. On this Saturday evening there were neither shoppers nor shoplifters to be found; the store was empty. I always loved the holiday displays, decorations and general holiday ambiance at Ward’s.

Sears Holdings Corp., parent of the Sears and Kmart retail chains, filed for bankruptcy protection early Monday — a last-ditch effort to save an American icon that shaped shopping habits for more than a century.

Stanley Black & Decker, which has a Towson-based power tools and storage division, is among the largest unsecured creditors in Sears' bankruptcy filing.

Stanley Black & Decker, which bought Sears' iconic Craftsman tool line last year, is relaunching the brand and will sell it at Lowe's and Ace hardware stores, as well as on Amazon, to make it more widely available.

Kmart will close stores in Crofton and Salisbury as part of its latest round of 103 closures in the U.S.

Sears Holdings plans to close its store at Eastpoint Mall, the latest Baltimore-area Sears store to close as the ailing retailer tries to turn around its business.

Sears will shutter two Maryland stores in its latest round of closings, including at Hunt Valley Towne Centre in Baltimore County and in Hagerstown.

The landlord of five Sears or Kmart stores in Maryland has been seeking new tenants to take over some space, part of an agreement between the troubled retailer and the developer that controls about 250 of Sears Holdings properties across the country.

Retailers are disappearing from shopping centers in Maryland and throughout the United States at a pace not seen in years as familiar brands go out of business or attempt to stay alive by closing some stores.

The Macy's and Sears stores anchoring Harford Mall in Bel Air will remain open, avoiding for now the fate of dozens of their sister stores across the country slated to close in the coming months.

Stanley Black & Decker acquired the Craftsman tool brand from Sears for about $900 million, the companies announced Thursday.

Sears Holdings plans to close the Kmart near the Eastpoint Mall in Dundalk in mid-April, part of a bigger round of closings underway across the country.

Online shopping has grown into a retail mainstay in recent years and is expected to reach all-time highs this holiday shopping season. Consumers can access most retailers in the palm of their hands through smartphones and other devices. The emergence of such online buying habits have helped reshaped the holiday season and diminished the significance of Black Friday for brands such as Under Armour and retailers large and small.

More than 10 years after purchasing the aging Carrolltown Center in Eldersburg with an eye toward redevelopment, officials at Black Oak Associates

Tens of thousands of children have learned to swim in the past century in the state's oldest YMCA building, The Y of Druid Hill. On Saturday, families will celebrate its 100th anniversary with an unveiling of displays dedicated to the history and a community block party; everyone's invited.

NORAD Tracks Santa celebrates its 60th anniversary this year and now reaches millions of people across the globe.

Kmart plans to close its Wabash Avenue store at the end of November, laying off more than 100 employees as the company trims operations around the country, according to notice submitted to the state last week.

For more than 30 years, Shirley Johannesen Levine, a Columbia resident, has entertained audiences across the country and around the world with her puppetry skills and her company, Puppet Dance Productions. Using mime, music and her own hand-made puppets, Levine encourages everyone from young children to senior citizens to "stretch their imagination" as she brings poems and stories to life.

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.