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Killings in Pigtown prompt community anger, complaints of inaction

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Nick Madigan, Don Markus - Jul. 19 (News) - For a man who was only 21 years old, Rasheed Abdullah seems to have made a lot of people angry. Police called him a drug dealer and neighbors in Pigtown wanted to throw him out, and in the last three years alone he was arrested at least 16 times. On Sunday morning, someone shot him in the head and killed him.

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Hampden's Fresh & Green's - 1 Week Later

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Mobtown Shank - By Mobtown Shank - Jul. 17 (Opinion) - One week after Hampden's new grocery store, Fresh & Green's, opens, things look like they're going to get worse before they get better ... assuming they'll get better.

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Would You Like a Vacant With That Pizza?

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Slumlord Watch - Jul. 16 (Opinion) - Folks, I’m all for buying local. I’d much rather order delivery from a locally-owned company over a large multinational chain. However…when the people that own the local company do bad things, or take no responsibility for their slum property — well, all bets are off.

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Uplands wins approval for development plan, Phase I funding

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Brew - By Fern Shen - Jul. 15 (News) - They demolished old apartments, displaced low-income residents, bought out businesses, spent millions and now, after a decade, they're finally going to build a project city officials say will turn this distressed part of west Baltimore into "a neighborhood of choice and opportunity." We visited the site on the eve of a key vote.

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Greening aims to revive Reservoir Hill

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Timothy B. Wheeler - Jul. 13 (News) - When Gerrie Okwesa moved to Reservoir Hill five years ago, she had no intention of staying long. Vacant rowhouses marred the block, and a fence obstructed one end of the street where she lived — put there by police, she was told, to disrupt the drug trafficking that plagued the neighborhood. But the place grew on the teacher from Washington, and she's put down roots, literally. With help from nonprofit groups and the city, she and her neighbors have greened up the 700 block of Newington Ave., replacing dead and dying trees, planting flowers around them and even turning a trash-strewn vacant lot into a lush neighborhood garden brimming with crape myrtles, hibiscus, hydrangeas and daylilies. "I really love opening my door and seeing trees and flowers and green stuff," she said.

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A crazy 'Zestimate' history on Baltimore house

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 06:40:28 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Jamie Smith Hopkins - Jul. 13 (News) - When Zillow changed the way it calculated its popular (and controversial) "Zestimates" last month, lots of homeowners saw their Zestimated value rise overnight and slightly more watched it drop. But Wonk reader Hilary had a much stranger experience.

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Friends of the Loch Raven Library say the future is an open book

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Towson Times - By Lori Ingraham - Jul. 11 (News) - Looking back, it was tough work when the Friends of the Loch Raven Library and other volunteers gathered last month to clean up the exterior of the library on Taylor Avenue and spruce up the grounds.

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Officials seek withdrawl of critical State Center study

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Jay Hancock - Jul. 11 (News) - State officials pushed back Friday against a critical study of the $1 billion-plus State Center project for midtown Baltimore, demanding that the Maryland Public Policy Institute "withdraw your recently issued report."

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Five Questions With ... Jennifer Helfrich

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Towson Patch - By Tyler Waldman - Jul. 11 (Interview) - Jennifer Helfrich took the reins of the Rodgers Forge Community Association last year. When not dealing with the issues of one of Towson's largest communities, the 45-year-old stay-at-home mom helps her husband with his software development business and raises two kids: a son at Loyola Blakefield and a daughter at Rodgers Forge Elementary School.

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Tapp-Harper Returns to Northern District as Police Commander

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

North Baltimore Patch - By Adam Bednar - Jul. 11 (News) - When Maj. Sabrina Tapp-Harper took over command of Baltimore City police’s Northern District, she had to hit the ground running.

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What To Make Of Hampden's Fresh & Green, So Far

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Mobtown Shank - Jul. 10 (Opinion) - On July 6, Hampden's Superfesh closed for good. The store sat for 3 days while new owners Fresh & Green moved in, cleaned up, restocked and prepared for yesterday's "grand" reopening.

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A block party calling for a stop to senseless violence

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Brew - By Jessica Cottrell - Jul. 10 (News) - Willie Ray, the street preacher and sometime-thorn in City Hall’s side, brings his message – that local communities must support and protect the young to be rid of violent crime and drive-by shootings – to Rosemont with a party of performance art, music, religion and food.

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Towson looks to more open, walkable design to hold visitors

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Arthur Hirsch - Jul. 10 (News) - Baltimore County has a plan for the heart of Towson, and it looks like Allegheny Avenue. In good weather Souris' Saloon can count on serving customers at tables under a black awning on the wide sidewalk where Allegheny meets the traffic circle at York Road.

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Downtown Property Owners Want To Halt Major Downtown Project

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WJZ-TV - By Adam May - Jul. 09 (News) - Thousands of new jobs, new housing and new retail. That's the goal of a major project planned for mid-town Baltimore.

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Civil War Archaeology at Lafayette Square

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Paper - By Tim Hill - Jul. 08 (News) - Lafayette Square is a leafy little park in the middle of West Baltimore, surrounded by lovely old churches, some pretty rowhouses and Victorian mansions, and like many formerly tony areas in Baltimore, abject poverty and crumbling buildings.

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A city tradition now, but Artscape wasn't always a sure thing

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Mary Carole McCauley - Jul. 08 (News) - Kathy Hornig's "to do" list for the week includes closing down 12 of the busiest streets in Baltimore for most of a week, including parts of Mount Royal Avenue, Charles Street and Cathedral Street.

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On either end of North Howard Street – no tenants

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Brew - By Brew Editors - Jul. 08 (Editorial) - What do the Superblock and State Center redevelopment projects share in common? Aside from being politically controversial, they have no committed tenants other than the state employees who already work at State Center.

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Hampden Gets a New Grocery Store

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Fishbowl - By Rachel Monroe - Jul. 07 (News) - If you happened to have a particular fondness for Superfresh, then we've got some sad news for you: all their area grocery stores are closed, and several -- including the one in Hampden -- are about to get a speedy makeover/takeover from a Canadian company that no one seems to know much about.

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Poppleton: A Neighborhood in Waiting

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Indypendent Reader - By Michael Kaplan, Umar Farooq - Jul. 06 (News) - Bulldozers stationed in lots slated for redevelopment in West Baltimore’s Poppelton neighborhood represent the first step forward in a long delayed and underfunded plan to revive the historic area.

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The Battle For Baltimore's 7th

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Mobtown Shank - Jul. 06 (Opinion) - The race for Baltimore City's 7th District just got a lot more interesting with former HCC President Allen Hicks running against incumbent Belinda Conaway.

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Johns Hopkins Growing Pains

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Fishbowl - By Rachel Monroe - Jul. 05 (News) - If you've spent any time in Charles Village recently, you've probably heard that soothing background hum that can only come from heavy machinery. Yes, that's right, it's summer -- also known as major construction time for Johns Hopkins, which is trying to move ahead on several new buildings before students crowd the campus again in the fall.

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Kids get a soaking at annual Roland Park Fourth of July parade

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Susan Reimer - Jul. 04 (News) - Roland Park neighbors trotted out their tried-and-true Fourth of July recipe Monday: Combine kids, dogs, politicians and parents with cameras. And then just add water.

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Hampden's Superfresh To Become Fresh & Green's

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Mobtown Shank - Jul. 02 (News) - What can Hampden expect to become of their Superfresh? Fresh & Green's is on its way - an organic/traditional market hybrid.

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Olmsted's Shortcuts

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Urbanite - By Rebecca Messner - Jul. 01 (News) - Frederick Law Olmsted's parks make use of curvilinear paths. But Roland Park's footpaths are the antidote to windiness.

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The New Inner Harbor

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Magazine - By Evan Serpick - Jul. 01 (News) - In the past 10 years, the number of families living in a one-mile radius of the corner of Pratt and Light Streets has increased 12.4 percent—and that doesn't include Canton, Fells Point, Butchers Hill, or much of Federal Hill, where increases are thought to be sharpest. Developers are responding to the changing demographics.

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