Growth and development

    Baltimore County Council advances measure to make it harder to build in rural areas
    The Baltimore County Council has voted to advance a measure that would require a supermajority to build in designated rural areas of the county. The charter amendment will now go before voters in 2026.
    The Baltimore County Council had made it harder to develop in designated rural areas of the county. The urban-rural line protects the Gunpowder River and county reservoirs, including Loch Raven, shown here.
    Baltimore could pay for downtown’s facelift using this one weird trick
    A proposed authority to oversee the Baltimore Convention Center could also control other parts of downtown Baltimore.
    The Baltimore Convention Center on April 2, 2025.
    Choate House was a national historic landmark. A Baltimore County developer bulldozed it.
    The developer who tore the historic home down said he also wanted a different outcome, that he even offered to pay to move it to a parcel of land he is donating to the county.
    The old Choate House, photographed in 1989
    Baltimore sues Poppleton developer over unpaid water bills
    The city of Baltimore is suing La Cité Development over an unpaid water bill of $478,051.
    The Center\West apartment complex in Poppleton, developed by La Cité, has unpaid water bills. The city is now suing.
    Is breaching Baltimore County’s urban-rural divide ‘the dumbest growth possible?’
    As the Baltimore County Council considers a measure that would make it harder to change its Urban Rural Demarcation Line, here are answers to five questions about the decades-old URDL.
    Prettyboy Dam impounds the Gunpowder Falls to create the 1500-acre Prettyboy Reservoir in northern Baltimore County.
    Greenleigh, in Baltimore County, could offer a way out of the housing crisis
    Greenleigh’s residential housing success story could offer a blueprint for the rest of the state during a national housing crisis.
    Asa Johnson Sr. sits on the front steps of his home in the Greenleigh development in Middle River.
    One of downtown Baltimore’s biggest landlords hit with foreclosure
    A lender is foreclosing on a downtown apartment building owned by one Baltimore’s most successful developers of office-to-residential conversions.
    The 11-story Art Deco-style apartment building is the former home of the Baltimore Life Insurance Company. Photographed on Thursday, March 20, 2025.
    Pet cemetery’s mystery owner may swap graves for gas pumps
    Development plans reveal the owner wants to put a gas station and convenience store on the famous little Maryland cemetery.
    Rosa Bonheur Memorial Park, a pet cemetery in Elkridge established in 1935, occupies a little over 11 acres along Route 1.
    A Baltimore developer’s private jet transfer has infuriated its creditors
    A construction arm of Chasen Cos. now faces petition for forced bankruptcy
    Creditors are seeking involuntary bankruptcy for a construction arm of the company, after a private jet transfer.
    Tariffs on lumber and appliances set stage for higher costs on new homes and remodeling projects
    Shopping for a new home? Ready to renovate your kitchen or install a new deck? You’ll be paying more to do so.
    Tariffs are projected to raise the costs that go into building a single-family home in the U.S. by $7,500 to $10,000, according to the National Association of Home Builders.
    T. Rowe Price begins moving 2,000 employees to Harbor Point offices
    T. Rowe Price, an investment firm based in downtown Baltimore since its founding in 1937, will begin moving employees to new Harbor Point offices this week.
    T. Rowe Price will be moving its 2,000 Baltimore-based employees from the company’s longtime downtown location to lavish new Harbor Point offices.
    Chasen Cos. entity files for bankruptcy ahead of auction for Fells Point building
    The entity, CC 1400 Aliceanna Street LLC, filed for bankruptcy Thursday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Maryland.
    A development project that Chasen Cos. named The Anne on Aliceanna, on the border of Fells Point and Harbor East.
    Anne Arundel County eclipses 600,000 residents as births outpace deaths
    Anne Arundel County eclipsed 600,000 residents in 2024, with a slight year-over-year population increase driven by births.
    Downtown Annapolis, Friday, March 28, 2025.
    Baltimore County population grows for first time in 4 years, new data shows
    Baltimore County reversed three consecutive years of population decline, thanks in large part to new immigrants.
    Baltimore County reversed three consecutive years of population decline.
    Baltimore gained population for the first time in a decade, new data shows
    Baltimore City gained population for the first time since 2014, census data released Thursday shows.
    Baltimore skyline
    Population growth picks up again in Howard County
    Howard County’s population growth showed signs of rebounding in 2024, after slowing nearly every year since 2016.
    Howard County’s population grew by about 2,000 in 2024.
    It’s not sexy, but fixing Baltimore’s permits process could solve a lot of problems
    Charm City has enough problems to overcome, and self-inflicted ones like poor permitting only make it more difficult.
    Mayor Brandon Scott is promising to streamline the city's permit review process. City Council members are skeptical.
    Hampton plantation site tells the history of slavery – and of Towson. Will the Trump administration erase that?
    The Hampton National Historic Site near Towson tells the history of slavery at a former plantation site in Baltimore County. Some worry that the Trump administration's push to revise history will erase that.
    The Hampton Mansion is seen at sunrise at Hampton National Historic Site in Towson.
    Why Baltimore can’t shake its controversial Poppleton developer
    City housing cancelled New York-based La Cité’s development rights. Turns out, it didn’t really matter.
    Scenes from around the Poppleton neighborhood of Baltimore on February 26, 2025.
    Reisterstown Road Plaza ‘died’ long ago. A new team wants to bring it back
    “Everyone has a plaza story,” one of the developers said. “And we want to bring that back.”
    Small businesses at Reisterstown Road Plaza in February.
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