Growth and development

The economic and social costs of the city’s vacant housing crisis “far exceed the investment needed to bring them back to productive use,” the report argues.

State Center’s future has been in limbo since 2016 when the state canceled a $1.5 billion contract to redevelop the site.

City officials will hear from CSX about the explosion in Curtis Bay late last year.

The brunt of dwindling banking options is felt more in certain areas of Baltimore.

The planned destruction will remove the last remaining structures at the defunct Charles P. Crane Generating Station, and comes as Baltimore County planners are weighing a request by property owner Forsite Development Inc. to extend public water lines to the property.

It’s a delay that advocates for Baltimore nonprofits say can hobble organizations, especially those with shoestring staffs, who rely on the federal grant funding to meet basic needs such as paying employees and providing them with health care benefits.

The report found that tax credits are being applied not only inequitably, but inefficiently, providing overly generous breaks.

While Baltimore ranks in the bottom half of large municipalities in both the amount of stimulus money obligated and spent, according to a city analysis, it outpaces a group of "peer" cities.

A circuit court judge in Baltimore County has given the green light to a controversial project in East Towson, overruling a 2021 vote by the Baltimore County Board of Appeals blocking the affordable housing development.

Sarah Ann Street alley homes and home of the Eaddy family to be removed from development plans.