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City Life Builders to join in EBDI project
City Life Builders is planning to build and renovate up to 50 properties in the East Baltimore Development Inc. redevelopment area, EBDI officials announced on a Facebook page this week.
Board: TIF hearing should have been open to public
City finance officials were wrong to close a May 20 meeting at City Hall in order to discuss and vote on details of a $107 million request for taxpayer subsidies for a luxury development at Harbor Point, the Attorney General’s Open Meetings Compliance Board found.
Stokes firing back over Harbor Point tax break
A Baltimore City Council member said the head of the city’s development agency is making “personal attacks” based on an escalating dispute over public tax breaks for a $1 billion waterfront development.
For EBDI hotel, back to the drawing board
Calling the plans ill-suited to the site, the city’s design review panel on Thursday rejected schematic designs for a 15-story hotel in Middle East as part of the 88-acre East Baltimore Development Inc. project.
Design panel to review plans for EBDI Gateway Hotel
Plans for a new hotel near the Johns Hopkins University medical campus, to be developed as part of the East Baltimore Development Inc. project, are slated to go before a city design panel next week.
Activist’s children fear foreclosure of her home
Seven years after being relocated by East Baltimore Development Inc., the family of Lucille Gorham is facing the loss of the replacement house she bought in Belair Edison.
EBDI misses revenue projections, triggers special tax
Baltimore Department of Finance officials were forced to send a “special tax” bill of $1.2 million to East Baltimore Development Inc. in March in order to meet the scheduled payment on tax increment financing bonds sold to partially fund the $1.8 billion redevelopment of Middle East.
$3.5B capital budget includes money for Ripken Stadium, Rocky Gap resort
The House of Delegates on Saturday approved a $3.5 billion capital budget that includes money for major Baltimore revitalization projects, infrastructure improvements for a proposed Western Maryland casino and renovations of Cal Ripken Jr.’s minor league baseball stadium in Harford County.
State budget includes $1.3M for park in EBDI
Gov. Martin O’Malley has directed $1.3 million in state general funds toward efforts to begin construction of a six-acre park in the massive East Baltimore Development Inc. project, according to his supplemental budget request.
Revise EBDI plan, panel says
The city’s urban design panel told developers of the $1.8 billion East Baltimore Development Inc. project Thursday to revise their master plan to make it more family-friendly.
Carson named to head East Baltimore Community School board
Dr. Benjamin Carson, an internationally renowned physician and director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, has been appointed president of the board of the East Baltimore Community School Inc.
East Baltimore advocate Lucille Gorham dies
Lucille Gorham, described as a soft-spoken community advocate for Middle East who carried a big “slingshot” and often took aim at the likes of the Johns Hopkins University and City Hall, died Saturday evening at the age of 81 after years of failing health.
