Growth and development

More than 13 years after the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore set out to make the city’s harbor swimmable, the coalition of public and private partners is planning a public swim event called “Harbor Splash” in 2024.

P. David Bramble and other members of MCB Real Estate fielded questions about their plans to overhaul Harborplace from a gathering of about 200 residents in Federal Hill on Monday night.

If you didn’t grow up here, those old, faded green buildings at Pratt and Light streets might seem useless, an empty shell of yesteryear. But back in the day, they were the town square.

The design includes a large new housing development with two towers. Readers are not feeling it.

The Baltimore office is for the Canopy Team, the planning and development firm specializing in the design of professional sports venues and their neighborhood surroundings she founded in Los Angeles.

Some of what’s new is obvious, like the two residential towers, but here are five more big changes we noticed in the plans.

Troy A. LeMaile-Stovall, CEO of TEDCO, believes that the key to Maryland’s economic engine for technology companies is through inclusive entrepreneurial innovation.

MCB Real Estate wants to rezone the Inner Harbor to allow for residential development.

Eight city-owned vacant lots in West Baltimore will soon be converted into a sprawling, 20,000-square-foot hub for artists and creatives in Baltimore.

The facility has 19 years remaining on its initial 20-year lease.

With a historic investment, SB7 is tasked with something both novel and daunting: using money from developers to fill in the gaps left behind by generations of neglect.

A City Council vote on a bill to help expand affordable housing in Baltimore is long overdue, Kevin Slayton, a city resident and clergyman, says.

Lidl officially signed a lease for a 36,000-square-foot space this past February in the Perkins-Somerset-Oldtown footprint, ending a long hunt for a grocer in the area.

Howard County is the latest in a string of Baltimore area governments proposing solutions to mitigate cost burdens on renters and homebuyers.

But it’s not yet known if construction on The Paramount Baltimore has resumed.

“We really need to be thinking about this, as one, connected, amazing district that is not car-centric with a highway running through it,” P. David Bramble said Thursday.

Dwyer Workforce Development, a nonprofit and health care career training program, is partnering with Southern Baptist Church to put a resource center in East Baltimore that will train health care workers.

Dozens of newsmakers spanning the public, private and nonprofit sectors came together Tuesday for iMPACT Maryland, The Baltimore Banner’s new event for thought leaders to swap insights and discuss innovative ideas for the state’s future.

Anita Kassof, executive director of the Baltimore Museum of Industry, disagrees with a suggestion to move the museum from its Inner Harbor location as part of a strategy to redevelop the area,

Reimagine Middle Branch, an outgrowth of the city’s 2015 South Baltimore Gateway Master Plan, is a $175 million effort to redevelop 19 neighborhoods along one of the Chesapeake Bay’s most neglected shorelines, the 11-mile Middle Branch of the Patapsco River.