A draft lease obtained by The Brew confirms that developer David Bramble would get a sweeping property tax write-off on his Harborplace project, reaping at least $200 million in savings over 25 years if his company's build-out of commercial, retail and ap... See more
'Do It Now' was the motto of William Donald Schaefer, the Baltimore mayor who put Harborplace on the map in 1980 as a world-class tourist destination. 'Wing It Now and Hope for the Best' appears to be the strategy of the city's Board of Estimates, which t... See more
There are two premier luxury hotels in Baltimore. One pays the city millions of dollars a year in profit sharing and rent, while the other gets millions of dollars of property taxes rebated under a program criticized by a City Council task force report. T... See more
When Chesapeake Systems, a computer-support company, opened a new office in Hampden with 22 employees in September, M.J. 'Jay' Brodie told the owners not to expect a laudatory article in the media. 'You guys are not big. You're not in downtown. You're not... See more
Baltimore learned something of an open secret last week – that some of those fine high-rises making up the city's skyline enclose an awful lot of empty space. In a one-two punch, the Mayor's Downtown Task Force and the Downtown Partnership published repor... See more
