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Colo. firm replaces Whiting-Turner as contractor for hotel

March 30, 2019 at 7:35 a.m.

A Colorado company will construct Baltimore's publicly financed convention headquarters hotel, city officials said yesterday - replacing Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., which could not keep its projected cost within the budget....

Price per gallon drives new behaviors

March 28, 2019 at 1:14 p.m.

Braedyn Woodring intended to quit her second job when her graduate classes picked up, she really did. But a sign from above changed her mind. It said: Regular unleaded, $2.60....

Developers discover charms of Baltimore

March 29, 2019 at 4:49 a.m.

The townhouses rising quickly under the baking sun are like so many popping up in popular suburbs. Brick facades. Two-car garages. A project of a national builder that's priced at...

Permits to fix up city homes soar

April 6, 2019 at 6:07 a.m.

Hit the streets in Baltimore and the evidence isn't hard to find. The number of residential rehabilitation permits has nearly doubled in the past five years, pushed upward by the...

Sniffing for deals

March 28, 2019 at 3:36 a.m.

Chris Smith, full-time real estate investor, is on the hunt for deals, steering his Mercury Cougar along the quiet residential streets of Lochearn at 15 miles per hour so he...

Sizzling real estate market attracts fledgling investors

June 7, 2019 at 1:21 a.m.

Twenty-five residential properties for sale, nearly 250 hopeful buyers. It's an auction. It's a frenzy. "It's ... the market today," says Jon Levinson, vice president of Alex Cooper Auctioneers Inc....

Paychecks raise eyebrows

April 5, 2019 at 9:15 p.m.

Charity is big business in Maryland, and some of the providers provide the compensation packages to prove it. Seven of the state's 501(c)(3) organizations - charities, the most common nonprofits...

Salary comparisons difficult to make for CareFirst’s chief

April 5, 2019 at 9:15 p.m.

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is a nonprofit - except that it pays taxes unlike a charity, competes with for-profit insurers, tried to convert to a for-profit itself and is currently promoting...

Rehabs surge as market is flooded with investors

March 29, 2019 at 6:00 p.m.

Peter Chrisopoulos is maneuvering his slate-gray Nissan Altima around the streets of South Baltimore, stopping and pointing at once-unusual sights. Look, there. And another around the corner. And a third...

Dahlia Kaminsky, sales and marketing manager for Patterson Park Community Development Corp., takes a call from a real estate agent at a Streeper Street house the group is rehabbing.

Seeing a hopeful change

March 30, 2019 at 4:13 a.m.

Last in a series Dahlia Kaminsky was showing off Patterson Park, pointing out rehabbed houses that have emerged from under their old Formstone, when a real estate agent called her...

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