Growth and development

Montgomery County is continuing with programs set up to help federal workers, as officials aren’t expecting any decline in the need for assistance.

County planners are rethinking Germantown’s growth plan after visions of a business district didn’t pan out.

Feast & Fettle, a New England-based premium meal delivery service, is expanding into Maryland, adding 250 full-time jobs over the next three years.

To Johnston Square, The Hammond at Greenmount Park is more than just a building.

The Montgomery County Economic Development Corp. began searching for a new CEO 10 months ago. Local leaders say the job is particularly important for the county’s economic well-being and the decision shouldn’t be rushed.

Maryland on Monday marked a milestone in its mission to develop parking lots along the MARC Penn Line.

Many of the federal workers who went to a recent food distribution event have spent their careers help others. More than a month into their furloughs, they're in dire need of assistance.

The planned development, which is a three-story timber building with a restaurant on the ground floor and six apartments on the second and third floors at 161 West St., was first approved in 2023.

Businesses have come and gone, but owners of those that stayed said they feel disillusioned by the politicians — seven mayors and counting — and developers who have made promise after promise about what the area could become.

Church leaders, community members and descendants of those once buried at Mt. Zion cemetery on Wednesday will test their belief that not all remains were relocated when the site was developed.

A suite of housing and zoning reforms, once pie-in-the-sky dreams for some advocates, are now law in Baltimore, with Mayor Brandon Scott signing four bills Monday in a City Hall ceremony.

Jack Torney is 22 and an unlikely heir to the old life on the bay. He grew up in Annapolis, where the waterfront gleams with sailboats and weekend cruisers, far removed from the fishing trade of its past. Yet he’s making his living like it’s a century ago.

MAG Partners announced it is no longer working on Kevin Plank's Baltimore Peninsula project. The New York real estate firm had been involved as a developer and investor since May 2022.

Montgomery County will honor Royce Hanson, “the father” of the agricultural reserve, on Saturday by officially opening his namesake park in Poolesville.

Richard Swirnow transformed a derelict shipyard into some of Baltimore’s most exclusive real estate.

In the early 1960s, developer James Rouse quietly cobbled together 14,000 acres of land in Howard County, telling few and using a number of shell companies to keep prices low. People speculated that the land was being used for a research lab or a giant compost pile.

While thermal inversions like the one Baltimore’s harbor just experienced happen naturally, humans have made the consequences worse.

The Market House lease will extend from 2033 through 2038, with possible extensions.

Montgomery County maintained its AAA bond rating from Moody’s, the highest given by the bond-rating agency. Moody’s downgraded its ratings for Maryland and Washington, D.C., earlier this year.

“Don’t put a dump next to a stream for God’s sake,” one resident said.