New owner plans $1 million renovation of building and re-activation of two dormant companies BALTIMORE, MD (November 10, 2014) – NAI KLNB has brokered the sale of 3400 E. Biddle Street in the Orangeville Industrial Area of Baltimore City to Chesapeake Plywood for $3 million.
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Baltimore Lofts – Living in Spacious Luxury
To live in—and love—this city, is to love its skyline. We may not have the most recognizable one in the world, but like the old song says, “the prettiest place on Earth is Baltimore at night.” We agree, of course. That’s part of why we live here. Our densely-packed cityscape is full of unique architecture […]
Checkpoint Charlie: Before the Wall Came Down
Twenty-five years ago, on November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall came down. University of Baltimore MFA student Ellen Hartley recalls a night in 1966 when she and her student husband tried to cross to East Berlin. What stopped them might make you grateful. “Halten Sie — sofort!” A guttural voice. “Schnell aus dem Auto!” Danny […]
The View From Halcyon Farm: Choosing Art
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way — things I had no words for.” […]
Charles Theatre’s Theater 1 Is Shrinking
Tapas Teatro, Station North’s Spanish-style small-plates restaurant, has been looking to expand. And bounded as they are on both sides by other establishments, options are limited. So neighboring Charles Theatre, which rents Tapas Teatro its space, will shrink its Theater 1 by 80 seats. Though the idea of the Charles reducing the size of its […]
The Up-to-Your-Neck Book Club
This past June, I was asked to be one of three judges for the $50,000 Kirkus Prize for fiction, a flashy new prize five times greater than either the Pulitzer or the National Book Award. The same 50K would be given to a nonfiction and a young-adult author, and each winner would be picked by […]
Over the Threshold: The Mystery of My Dad’s Missing Love
Baltimore writer Holly Morse-Ellington believes her newly divorced father has a super serious girlfriend–unfortunately, thanks to her dad’s close-lipped nature, her best information source is a tiny barking dog. My parents’ divorce has been a long road for me. Maybe it’s not my road to travel. But that’s the thing about family. No matter how […]
Center Stage Project Becomes a Feature Length Film
Center Stage announced this week that its acclaimed digital theater project My America has become a feature length film that will premiere world-wide on July 4, 2014, exclusively through streaming service Fandor, followed by a special July 9 screening at the IFC center in New York City. Conceived and commissioned in 2012 under the leadership […]
TONIGHT! NEW HGTV Series ‘Rent or Buy’ Features Baltimore-Native Alethea King
from press release: Spectrum Enterprises LLC, a boutique real estate brokerage headquartered in Baltimore, announced that the firm’s founding partner, real estate broker and entrepreneur Alethea King, will be featured on the new HGTV series Rent or Buy. The segment will air nationally tonight, December 5, at 9:30 pm ET on HGTV. “I was thrilled to be […]
Maryland is the 7th Best State for Cyclists
Looks like all that pro-bike activity in Baltimore and its surrounding areas is getting some nationwide attention: According to the League of American Bicyclists, Maryland is the 7th best state for cyclists. Last year, we didn’t even crack the top 10! There have been a ton of pro-bike actions around town over the past year […]
House of the Day: A Unit for You Plus Six More, On the Water
$899,000 460 Carvel Beach Road, Anne Arundel County From the agent’s listing: ***GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO OWN YOUR OWN RENTAL PROPERTY ON THE WATER, LIVE ON THE WATER FOR FREE & RENT THE OTHER SIX(6) UNITS FOR MONTHLY INCOME!!!*** These seven(7) units are fully approved for the their current usage by AA County & have been […]
Rhapsody in June
I am never going to leave Virginia Beach, where the boardwalk is stone and the hotels are a wall of blocks flanked by mulched banks of flowers. The bike trail veers from the oceanfront through a pine forest, deep and green. The waves are so gentle they almost don’t break. We have a coupon for […]
Thursday Morning Headlines: Sun Will Have to Start Paying Rent After Spinoff from Tribune; D.C. Santa Shot with Pellet Gun in Front of TV Crew; Pope Reaches Out to Atheists on Christmas; and More
Morgan State Student Takes a Stand for Gay Rights at Historically Black University – Washington Post Rockfish Quotas Stir Controversy – Baltimore Sun Persons of Interest Still Wanted in Black Friday Brawl at Annapolis Mall – CBS Baltimore The Baltimore Sun Will Have to Pay Parent Company Tribune Rent After Spinoff – Baltimore Business Journal […]
An Unaffiliated Jew: How I Got Religion
University of Baltimore MFA student Ellen Hartley describes her stint in Hebrew school, the scandal that rocked her temple, and the pivotal personal decision she made at age 15. I am an unaffiliated Jew. I wasn’t always. I became an unaffiliated Jew in 1956 when I was 15. Before that I had felt comfortable within […]
Charles Theater Declines to Host Maryland Film Festival This Year
James “Buzz” Cusack and Kathleen Cusack Lyon, the operators of the Charles Theater, have declined to rent the facility out to the Maryland Film Festival for the first time in the annual event’s 15-year history. Lyon cited the unprofitability of the festival and the scheduling difficulties it creates (that continue “for weeks afterward”) as the […]
