Growth and development

Cumberland, like other small cities in Maryland, has experienced a post-pandemic revival thanks to an influx of residents who work remotely. The Western Maryland mountain town is shoring up its historic downtown.

The Baltimore County Council on Tuesday will adopt a comprehensive zoning map, something it does every four years. But critics say the process is anything but democratic, with individual council members deferring to one another on decisions in their respective districts. Some say this has put too much power in the hands of each council member.

The firm that wants to redevelop Harborplace touts the walkability of its designs, but at a hearing Thursday, city planning commissioners pointed out a different issue: Some of these hypothetical residents might own cars.

ABC Capital’s Jay Walsh was convicted Thursday of acting as a contractor without a license and acquitted of the most serious charge he faced, one count of felony theft.

A Baltimore City panel is once again preparing to review the master plan for the city’s most high-profile redevelopment: Harborplace.

A stream in Oregon Ridge has been named after “Reds” Wolman, the famed Johns Hopkins scientist who would have turned 100 this week.

Six residents and the community association of a West Baltimore neighborhood stuck in a 20-year stalled redevelopment are suing numerous current and former city officials, agencies and the firm La Cité.

The outskirts of Annapolis have developed in 20-year waves. Today, right on time, a new wave of homes and retail is shaping up, promising the latest transformation of an area named for a long-gone Civil War prisoner exchange camp, Parole.

La Cité Development was supposed to break ground on an age-restricted apartment complex for older adults this year. Instead, the developer missed a key financing deadline.

Baltimore County designer Brittany Veney, of B. Real Creative Studio, sets out to help smaller businesses find their voices and identities.

Howard County officials are set on purchasing Longwood, a former plantation in the western part of the county, for a public garden. Some want to make sure the history is researched and honored.

Baltimore’s Board of Estimates on Wednesday approved the lease for OneDo Coffee Roasters to take up a 1,156-square-foot space, with an expected opening next spring.

The council approved two amendments that County Executive Johnny Olzewski Jr.’s administration had requested.

The agencies and developers involved in transforming Baltimore’s Penn Station disagree on where to move the passenger drop-off area to make way for a pedestrian plaza.

Not one penny of the $56 million construction loan insured by the federal government has been repaid.

So far the reception from state leaders has been lukewarm and city budget officials have also pushed back, according to emails and other communications obtained in a public records request.

No one seems to want a proposed 70-mile power transmission line that would run through Carroll, Frederick and Baltimore Counties. And no one seems to know exactly how to stop it.

Chemical company W.R. Grace & Co. wants to recycle plastics in Columbia, but neighbors worry about the impact on air quality.

The tourism group Visit Harford is suing Harford County, alleging it hasn’t been paid for promoting tourism in the county.

Since winning a bid to redevelop West Baltimore's Poppleton neighborhood almost 20 years ago, La Cité Development has built a fraction of what it planned, leaving several blocks of vacant land in one of Baltimore’s oldest Black neighborhoods. The city grew so frustrated with inaction that last month it canceled La Cité’s exclusive development deal.