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Reported today by The Sun and various other media sources, developer Pat Turner has proposed placing a 236-foot tall structure as the centerpiece of his recently ground-broken Westport development, a spiritual successor to all of the other developments he’s managed to score in the past 30 years or so in effect transforming Baltimore’s extended stretches […]
Last October, Baltimore City placed 50-ish permanently located speed cameras in and around the area within designated School Zones – essentially any area within a half-mile of a school, which as many have noted essentially covers a majority of Baltimore’s land mass, save some of its most industrial areas. As of May 24th it would […]
Via Baltimore Slumlord Watch, Baltimore has a new law governing vacant city buildings. For more on this legislation, or other budget matters, you can read this article from the Baltimore Sun.
A bit of time has passed since the whole “Walmart might be coming to Remington” debacle began; it would seem that every media outlet, blog, dog, dog blog and log log has covered it in some way, ranging from the usual copy/paste anti-or-pro statement seen thousands of places around the internet to the truly well […]
While noting Baltimore’s long history of environmental disasters, it’s good every once in a while to see a spot in the city that has actually seen vast improvements in quality – not by the direct result of luxury condos, mind you – and will actually turn out to be a huge benefit to the community […]
Now that the complaints regarding Baltimore City’s budget horrors are behind us, I’d like to explore some of the very realistic, very awesome and totally doable strategies that can be implemented almost immediately (as immediately as government can function), and will serve to aid in the patching of our enormous deficit, while paving the way […]