City’s east-side renaissance spreads
In what would be the biggest single residential development in Baltimore in recent memory, banker Edwin F. Hale Sr. plans to build more than 1,000 upscale condos, apartments and townhouses...
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Five national builders to bid on city hotel plan
Five national builders will compete to construct Baltimore's proposed $290 million, publicly financed convention headquarters hotel after estimates from Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., the builder previously expected to build the hotel,...
Atlantic City’s retail bet pays off
Michael McMenamin remembers when downtown Atlantic City had nothing to lure visitors off the Boardwalk and away from the casinos, just blighted stretches of abandoned warehouses, a glass company, a...
Mitchell sees ‘red flags’ on hotel bonds
The chairman of a key Baltimore City Council committee said yesterday that he has strong reservations about the city's plans to publicly finance and own a convention headquarters hotel and...
At Phillips seafood, tsunamis hit close to home
In devastated villages of southeast India yesterday, the head of Phillips Foods Inc.'s India division spent the day on a truck, delivering rice and water. The head of Phillips in...
Price of gas falls nearly 10¢ in Md.
Marylanders get to hold on to more of their dimes, at least for now. Consumers in the state are paying nearly 10 cents less for a gallon of regular unleaded...
Drivers turn to generic gas
Mark Krug leases his Rosedale service station from Exxon, buys his gasoline from Exxon and pays the oil giant to use its gold-plated brand name. At his Petro stations in...
Gasoline price falls below $2 here
Consumers are finally getting a breather from the soaring cost of gas. For the first time in a month, the national average price of gasoline fell to less than $2...
Rising oil prices threaten economy, experts warn
As the price of crude oil approaches record highs, the impact is beginning to flow far beyond the corner gas station. It's slicing through the economy, cutting into corporate profits,...
Stewart’s tarnished image bad for business
Almost everyone who has studied the predicament confronting the managers of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. agrees that Martha Stewart should leave for her company to have its best chance...