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COPT shows off plans for 'Michigan Avenue-style'...

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Designs for a sleek, modern new retail and restaurant hub at Baltimore’s new “Main Street” intersection — Pratt and Light streets — were presented to the city’s design panel at City Hall today. “We want to make Pratt Street like Michigan Avenue,” said Bryce Turner, president of BCT Architects, of the chic and successful main boulevard in Chicago. BCT is working with developer Corporate Office Properties Trust on the project. COPT (NYSE: OFC) owns the adjoining Transamerica Tower and the rights…

Baltimore named a Bloomberg Philanthropies city

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With the new year comes the promise of change and hopefully, innovation. To encourage both bold innovation and culture change, Bloomberg Philanthropies is awarding Baltimore City up to $500,000 annually for three years as part of its Innovation Teams program. Bloomberg Philanthropies is the charitable arm of billionaire businessman and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Baltimore was selected with six other cities across the world as the newest cities in the nonprofit’s Innovation Teams…

Baltimore, DOJ unveil details of police consent...

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The city and U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Thursday announced a court-enforceable consent decree to overhaul many of the Baltimore Police Department’s practices in the coming years. The consent decree comes after months of negotiations between the city and the U.S. Department of Justice, and establishes guidelines to implement new training programs for all officers on policing methods, new guidelines for handling sexual assault cases, and additional community outreach programs. The DOJ…

First look at the planned redevelopment of Towson...

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The owners of Towson Circle on Thursday unveiled renderings for the proposed redevelopment of the project, where it plans to add 371 apartments and bring the retail component of the site to street level. The renderings are the first time Retail Properties of America Inc., an Illinois-based real estate investment trust, offered a glimpse into the look of the planned project. The development is currently anchored by a below-grade Trader Joe’s, which will soon relocate to the Shops at Kenilworth.…

Exclusive: Baltimore seeking $10M in bonds to...

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Baltimore officials have requested a $10 million bond issuance from Gov. Larry Hogan to help pay for a quarter of the redevelopment of the historic Lexington Market. Kirby Fowler, chair of Baltimore Public Markets Corp., the quasi-public agency that runs the city markets, said Thursday the request was sent to the governor’s office on the cusp of the opening of the 2017 General Assembly session, which began Wednesday in Annapolis. “The past two years have been about planning and design,” said Fowler,…

Amazon adding 100,000 jobs in U.S. over next 18...

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Amazon.com Inc. plans to add more than 100,000 full-time jobs in the U.S. by mid 2018. Most of the jobs will be in fulfillment centers. Amazon employs several thousand workers at a fulfillment center in Southeast Baltimore. In a press released on Thursday, the online retail giant listed Texas, California, Illinois, New Jersey, Kentucky and Florida as examples of where the company plans to add jobs. The company also plans to hire at its Seattle headquarters. Amazon said it plans to increase its…

Barbara Mikulski joining Johns Hopkins University...

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Former U.S. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, the longest-serving woman in the history of U.S. Congress, will join the faculty of Johns Hopkins University on Jan. 16 as a professor of public policy and presidential adviser. Mikulski, 80, officially retired from the Senate earlier this month. She served five six-year terms, after serving another five terms in the House of Representatives. A lifelong Baltimorean, she also served a stint on the Baltimore City Council. In her new role, Mikulski will be working…

8 things you need to know this morning

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Good morning, and happy Thursday. It’s going to be unseasonably warm today with temperatures approaching the 60s — yikes! And, because Maryland weather is always going to be Maryland weather — we might see some snow this weekend. Here are eight things to know to get your day started. The city and the U.S. Department of Justice are preparing to announce a consent decree this morning that will set up changes to the city’s police force. This comes after months of negotiations between the two…

Maryland biotech stocks fall on Trump's tough talk...

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Some of Maryland’s biggest publicly traded biotech companies saw their stock prices dip Wednesday after President-elect Donald Trump said, in his first press conference in his new role, that the pharmaceutical industry was “getting away with murder.” “Pharma has a lot of lobbies, a lot of lobbyists and a lot of power. And there’s very little bidding on drugs,” Trump said to reporters at the press conference. “We’re the largest buyer of drugs in the world, and yet we don’t bid properly.” He…