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1 week ago | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Giacomo Bologna
William Hamrick was supposed to be inspecting gas pipes for Baltimore Gas and Electric. Instead, he was on his boat. As a BGE inspector, Hamrick’s job was to check the work of contractors installing gas infrastructure and ensuring they met safety standards. But a 2023 investigation by BGE found he was falsifying inspection reports.
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1 week ago | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Giacomo Bologna |Emily Opilo
The subterranean collapse of a 19th-century stormwater drain near Lake Montebello created a sinkhole that is also sucking in more and more taxpayer money. What was once predicted to be a $10 million fix has ballooned to at least $30 million, according to financial documents from the city. And that cost could keep rising.
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1 week ago | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Giacomo Bologna
The city of Baltimore spent years acquiring properties, removing residents, tearing down homes and businesses to create a half-acre of vacant land it that it sold to a developer for $40. Now, with nothing built, an investor is trying to offload that parcel. The city created the parcel as part of the ambitious — now failed — plan to turn the West Baltimore neighborhood of Poppleton into a dense, upscale community, similar to Manhattan.
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1 week ago | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Giacomo Bologna
One of Baltimore’s biggest tariff lovers hosted a top Trump administration officialat his steel fabrication plant Friday morning. Drew Greenblatt gave a tour of Marlin Steel in South Baltimore to Kelly Loeffler, the new head of the Small Business Administration. Trump’s tariffs have caused the stock market to whipsaw and stoked fears of a recession, but Greenblatt and Loeffler said these taxes on imports are long overdue.
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2 weeks ago | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Giacomo Bologna
Officials want to create a new public authority that could control the Baltimore Convention Center and other downtown property. They just want to study it a little more first. On the final day of the legislative session, state lawmakers passed a bill that extends the life of a task force looking into how the authority would work. The bill now heads to the desk of Gov. Wes Moore before becoming law.
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3 weeks ago | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Giacomo Bologna
The Convention Center is crumbling. The Inner Harbor has seen better days. And the streetscape of downtown Baltimore is antagonistic to everyone not in a car. Fixing this will be costly, but who’s going to pay for it? According to a bill in the state legislature, the answer could be a public authority. This new independent agency would work with the state to borrow large amounts of money. That debt would likely be repaid by new taxes in Baltimore.
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3 weeks ago | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Giacomo Bologna
A credit rating agency is taking a slightly dimmer outlook on the long-term health of Greater Baltimore Medical Center, or GBMC. Last week, GBMC saw its rating slip from A to A-, according to a notice from S&P Global Ratings. “The downgrade reflects GBMC’s ongoing operating losses and weakened cash flow, which we expect will persist over the next several years,” an analyst for S&P said.
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3 weeks ago | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Ellie Wolfe |Giacomo Bologna
A staffing company jointly owned by The Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Health Systems is laying off 1,048 employees and shutting down after more than four decades in businesses. A spokesperson for Johns Hopkins said employees were notified in October of the planned closure of Broadway Services, a Baltimore-based company founded in 1982. Broadway Services notified state regulators this week that it would shut down by the end of June.
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1 month ago | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Giacomo Bologna
A Pikesville woman said she knew something was wrong when her steak bowl tasted “soapy.”As she dug in, she remembered that the Chipotle she had just purchased take-out from looked “dirty,” she said. She said she stopped eating and dumped her food in the trash — but it was too late. Within a few hours, her stomach started to hurt, nausea began, then came the vomiting and diarrhea, she said.
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1 month ago | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Giacomo Bologna |Lee Sanderlin
A lender is foreclosing on a downtown apartment building owned by one Baltimore’s most prolific developers of office-to-residential conversions. PMC Property Group has 13 apartment buildings in Baltimore, nine of which are downtown. The Philadelphia-based firm has specialized in taking old office buildings and converting them into apartment complexes. According to a lawsuit filed in Baltimore Circuit Court this week, an LLC controlled by PMC defaulted on a $16.4 million loan used to renovate 301 N.
