Today, city officials will announce details of the Charles North Vision Plan, a grand $1 billion renewal effort that aims to transform a 100-acre area north of Penn Station in central Baltimore into a “cultural crossroads.”
The Sun has many of the details of the project, designed by the same people who brought us Harborplace, here, [...]

Our latest report on the ongoing saga of Keswick Multi-Care’s proposal to build a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) on green space owned by the Baltimore Country Club in Roland Park continues today with an interview with Keswick CEO Libby Bowerman (pictured standing next to the space in question).
We initally reported on the meeting, two [...]

UPDATE: After I posted my recap of last week’s meeting, I contacted both the Roland Park Civic League and Keswick Multi-Care to try to set up follow-up Q and As. I heard back from Dr. Spevak at the RPCL immediately and conducted the Q and A below. I had not heard back from Keswick until [...]

On an unseasonably warm October evening, under the harsh fluorescent glare of the Roland Park Elementary School auditorium, hundreds of local residents sat, stood, and sweat last night as they heard Keswick Multi-Care’s proposal to build a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) on land purchased from Baltimore Country Club (BCC). The scene was a bit [...]

Baltimore InnerSpace blog—an excellent resource for analysis of local infrastructure—has an insightful post about the Owings Mills Metro station, the Owings Mills mall, and how poor planning has led to a grossly disconnected community. An excerpt:
“The rail transit station must be the focal point for all of Owings Mills, instead of being just a bunch [...]

For Jews, the ten days that start with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and end on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, are the most solemn of the year. Called the Ten Days of Repentance, it is a time for Jews to examine their lives, repent for the sins they have committed over the [...]