Baltimore Restaurant Week Summer 2014 is August 1-10 at a good number of restaurants in Baltimore City. It is exciting to see so many new eateries on the list of participating restaurants in Baltimore. Also, The Oregon Ridge in Hunt Valley, which is outside of the city, is joining in again. The participating restaurants will have prix-fixe menus. Three [...]
The Buying into Baltimore Homebuying Fair for the East side is this Saturday, September 8, 2012 from 8:30am-4pm. The event begins at Mergenthaler Vocational Technical High School ("Mervo"), located at 3500 Hillen Rd, Baltimore, MD 21218, with Check-in and Neighborhood tour sign up from 8:30-11am. There is a $15 per person charge to participate. Home [...]
The Chestnut Ridge Country Club in the Falls Rd Corridor closed its' doors last year, and now the property has reportedly been sold to a developer, bringing the question as to what may go into the 232 acres the club inhabited. The Falls Rd Community Association says in a post on their website that the [...]
Today, my husband and I took advantage of Maryland's new Early Voting, and went to Towson University to do our civic duty. The line was short, the directions easy, and the Administration building well set up & equipped for early voting. Baltimore County and Baltimore City have a number of sites where you can vote [...]
What do I need for loan application? ...And why is this additional information being requested of me? What are the underwriters looking for? Thank you to J. Christopher Kennedy of 1st Mariner Mortgage in Downtown Baltimore for some answers to mysteries of loan application and approval process. Why are you asking this? Too often buyers [...]
Emergent BioSolutions will have 120 new jobs in Baltimore in the next few years. The company, based in Rockville, had a ribbon cutting ceremony on their 56,000 square foot facility on Lombard Street in Downtown Baltimore on Friday. Emergent is the maker of the only FDA approved anthrax vaccine. The Washington Post reports that they [...]
Johns Hopkins Hospital has 400 job openings on its main campus. The main campus is located on Broadway past Fells Point and Canton in Downtown Baltimore. The chief operating officer, Judy Reitz, states that this does not include openings some of its' other campuses. They are also building new patient towers to be opening in [...]
The "Unofficial" Baltimore Tax Free Shopping Week begins April 16, 2010 and runs through April 25. Also known as Baltimore Retail Week, the focus is on local retailers offering their wares with no tax this week after you pay your government taxes! Over 50 retailers in four shopping districts, including Federal Hill, are currently participating. [...]
The Orange County Choppers TV show will be in Canton Square on Tuesday, January 6, 2010 to show off and deliver the new bike they built for Lutherville based Monster Diesel. The Baltimore.org site states Monster Diesel is an alternative green diesel fuel additive developed from synthetic technology which is more powerful and more environmentally [...]
Beginning July 1, 2009, expect major delays on 695 and 95 as confused motorists attempt to navigate the new location for the ramp to 95 South near White Marsh. Motorists will be exiting 695 from the RIGHT instead of the left, as they had been doing, and entering 95 South on the right as well. Here [...]