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By Carley Milligan  – Digital Editor, Baltimore Business Journal This year, October will bring yet another reason to celebrate all things spooky and macabre — the first International Edgar Allan Poe Festival and Awards. The free, two-day outdoor festival will take place in Baltimore on the 169th anniversary of the famous writer’s death, Oct. 6 and 7. It ... An Edgar Allan Poe Festival is coming to Baltimore

By Melody Simmons  – Reporter, Baltimore Business Journal     Developers Dan Bythewood, Jr. and Ian Arias share a laugh inside the Center\West apartment complex in May.   Center West is set to officially open in September as the first tenants move into hundreds of new apartment units in Poppleton. Pre-leasing will begin in August at 101 and ... Center West preparing to welcome first tenants

Matthew Rothstein, Bisnow East Coast    Baltimore has seen an impressive amount of improvement in recent years to areas like Fells Point, Canton and the Inner Harbor, but most are well aware of just how incomplete its revitalization has been. (Courtesy of Baltimore City) Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, speaking at Bisnow’s Baltimore State of the ... Baltimore And Its Developers Know They Need Each Other

Apartments carry promise for Poppleton First construction in years stimulates hope for renewal Jacques Kelly In the neighborhood As construction workers climbed staircases outside the rising $81.5 million apartment complex at Schroeder and Lexington streets, a longtime resident of the Poppleton neighborhood observed: “We’ve been waiting 15 years for this to happen.” The two apartment ... Apartments carry promise for Poppleton

By Melody Simmons  –  Reporter, Baltimore Business Journal Jan 5, 2018, 2:56pm EST Updated Jan 9, 2018, 9:35am An incentive program to be unveiled next week aims to lure employees of the University of Maryland, Baltimore to become homeowners on the city’s westside. About 50 homes will be showcased during a March homeownership event to be held at the University ... UM Baltimore set to offer ‘live near your work’ grants to employees

  By Melody Simmons  –  Reporter, Baltimore Business Journal Dec 11, 2017, 9:08am EST Updated Dec 11, 2017, 12:10pm The horizon of West Baltimore’s Poppleton community has sprouted two new additions: The first buildings of a sprawling, $800 million development that will welcome new tenants in August. The 32-acre development, called Center West, is located just west of Martin Luther King Boulevard at ... After 13 years, West Baltimore mega-development begins to take shape (Photos)