Year: 2020

Two private developers are partnering with a West Baltimore community development corporation to overhaul a pair of apartment complexes about a mile apart on the city’s west side, rehabbing hundreds of units while reserving them as dedicated affordable housing in the process. The project includes a $41.8 million transformation of Rosemont Gardens, to be renamed…

Financing for another affordable housing project in the city has come together with the approval of a $1 million loan by Baltimore’s spending panel Wednesday, The 47-unit Flamingo Place Apartments project is planned for a small parcel of land in Hampden, located west of Falls Road and near West 40th Street. Local developer Osprey Properties…

A few weeks after the Freddie Gray disturbances at North and Pennsylvania avenues in 2015, developer James Riggs deliberated whether he and his firm should embark upon a $21 million project to resurrect a beleaguered city block a mile away. “I stepped back, considered all the bad publicity, and thought yes, we need to do…

Don Black found himself crying as he prepared to cut the ribbon for a new BB&T branch on North Avenue in West Baltimore. Black, the branch manager, is originally from an area of southeast Washington, D.C. not too different from the bank’s new Coppin Heights neighborhood, and grew up in Maryland’s foster care system. His…

Workers from Southway Builders were puzzled initially by the presence of a rectangular well in the basement of 22 Light St., a commercial structure being converted into 40 units of affordable housing in downtown Baltimore. This swimming pool-like depression in the cellar was part of the operation of the old William Lanahan & Son Hunter-brand…