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In Penn North, a former BPD detective pushes to build a new youth and community center

Neighbors once called it “The Plantation”—not with the grim historical undertone you might expect for the largely black community of Penn North, but with a more playful reference to the property’s exterior. The three-story home at 2521 Woodbrook Ave. is uniquely set back from the otherwise row home-lined street, and sports a Southern-style second-floor balcony […]

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Developer eyes demolition of two historic mill houses in Woodberry to make way for new apartments

Jill Orlov got a bad feeling last week when she saw a demolition contractor surveying the outside of 3511 and 3513 Clipper Road, a combined 19th-century historic stone building. Orlov, an architect-turned-artist, said she approached the contractor to ask what was being planned for the mill home. “I think it’s coming down,” he responded, Orlov […]

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Tuesday Morning Headlines: How Baltimore’s Luxury Apartments Are Wooing Tenants; Excel Academy Suffers Seven Student Murders in 15 Months; and More

Shots Fired At Police During Robbery Downtown — CBS Baltimore Grief Has Become Routine for Students at Baltimore School — The New York Times Baltimore pizza place puts ‘s***hole country’ statement on menu — Fox45/ABC7 Baltimore’s luxury apartments woo tenants with robots, a Bermuda cruise and free rent — BBJ Not All Monuments Are Created […]

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With mill homes’ demo off the table, preservationists and neighbors call for new apartments to reflect ‘Woodberry flavor’

The developer behind a new four-story apartment complex coming to Woodberry has bowed to calls from neighbors and preservationists to incorporate a pair of 1840s stone mill homes into the building’s design. But at a Tuesday night meeting at Itineris, organized by the Woodberry Community Association, locals aired remaining concerns about exactly how those homes will […]

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