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The Questar Properties building would stand 40 to 45 stories high — less than 500 feet — and contain 350 to 370 luxury apartments, said Stephen Gorn, chairman and CEO of the Pikesville-based company. The design remains fluid and will depend in part on feedback during the public process.

Police on Thursday found a decomposing body floating in an industrial area at the mouth of the Inner Harbor, a grim discovery that marks the ninth time since October a person has turned up dead in the waters of Downtown Baltimore.

Baltimore's ability to thrive is being constrained by some deeply ingrained ways of thinking. These habits of mind continue to affect our collective perception of what is possible for us to accomplish as a community.

The comment period on the Inner Harbor 2.0 plan is too short.

City leaders will unveil an ambitious long-term plan for the Inner Harbor Wednesday designed to restore pizazz to a once vital area that has lost cache in recent years.

Interview with Michael D. Hankin, CEO of Brown Advisory

Students from two city schools and some adult volunteers gathered at the National Aquarium Tuesday to "plant" some oysters in the Inner Harbor - not for eating but to try to improve the health of the ailing water body.

As tens of thousands of purple-bedecked fans packed near the Inner Harbor Thursday evening to watch country star Keith Urban sing atop a floating stage, lingering frustrations that the Baltimore Ravens were out of town faded away.

The Gathering, as the food truck rallies are known, will be part of the Waterfront Partnership's Summer Social

The Jones Falls turned a milky green Thursday where it empties into the Inner Harbor, and hundreds of fish turned belly up in what authorities described as a "thermal inversion" that suffocated the fish and released noxious sulfur from the bottom muck.

Changes afoot at Station North, Aquarium, Inner Harbor, more

Keep dreams of a 7-mile city waterfront promenade alive

Despite a foul-smelling algae bloom and fish kill this time last year, Baltimore's ailing harbor actually earned a C-minus grade overall for water quality in 2012, according to its latest ecological report card.

At the behest of business owners — and using their financial contributions — the Waterfront Partnership is extending its safety and cleaning services into the heart of Fells Point.

The Waterfront Partnership and the Greater Baltimore Committee are embarking on a comprehensive study of the Inner Harbor, aiming to sustain it as a vibrant part of the city.

Maryland's Clean Marinas program helps encourage marinas to control trash and pollution.

In a bid to boost recycling and reduce litter, a trio of lawmakers announced plans Monday to push for legislation that would levy a refundable nickel deposit on every beverage container sold in Maryland.

Just two weeks after Baltimore voters approved setting up a special fund for cleaning up the city's degraded streams and harbor, City Hall has proposed legislation to begin levying a "storm-water remediation fee" next year on all property owners.

Baltimore's weeklong Star-Spangled Sailabration in June drew more than 1.5 million people — some 435,000 from out of state — and had an estimated $166 million in economic impact on the metro area, according to a study released Thursday.

Report card on Baltimore harbor finds water still fouled with trash, bacteria, but cleanup efforts picking up

Restoring the harbor to health

Baltimore's Healthy Harbor initiative seeks fishable waters by 2020, but anglers see obstacles to cleanup efforts

Harbor East developers intend to include housing.

Sailabration commemoration attracted hundreds of thousands of people and gave a boost to shops, restaurants, bars and hotels in areas well beyond downtown and the Inner Harbor.

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.

Conditions behind weeklong die-off may be easing

City to begin work this fall on a section of the Inner Harbor promenade near the Four Seasons hotel; will give public waterfront access at Harbor East.

A powerful stench was in the air at the Inner Harbor Saturday, as 12-year-olds Alison Chase and Marissa Westerbeke hunched over the water's edge, studying tiny crabs floating to the surface.