Welcome to that magical time of year when the noun ‘holiday’ can be used as an adjective to modify any event, product, or activity, regardless of its relevance to any historical or current holy day. It may not feel much like December––so much as an interminable pre-dawn shower with no hot water when the power’s [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Inner Harbor'
Development Spotlight – Hotel Monaco
August 26th, 2009 No Comments
Development Spotlight – Hotel Monaco
It looks like the bad news was a near-miss. Kind of like when you’ve just almost been t-boned going through a fresh green light and then get the shudders and want to tell someone, but there isn’t anything to tell. Well, remember the B&O building {http://urbandiscoveriesblog.com/2009/05/28/development-spotlight-bo-american-brasserie/} in the Inner Harbor (2 [...]
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Upcoming Events – Weekend of 7/3
July 3rd, 2009 1 Comment
Two hundred thirty-three years ago, some guys declared some stuff, so this week, it’s your civic duty to make merry. Among the festivities:
1. The Inner Harbor will host the city’s biggest and most crowded celebration starting at 4:30 p.m. with a live a cappella performance by Reverb and continuing into the evening with more music [...]
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Believe, Hon
July 1st, 2009 No Comments
One of the benefits of living in the city is proximity to a variety of religious traditions. Baltimore, in particular, has a proud history of tolerance, though the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 only applied to Christians… and even then got nixed by Oliver Cromwell. But! Since then, our religious heritage has been plentiful and [...]
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Development Spotlight: B&O American Brasserie
May 28th, 2009 No Comments
If you’ve been jonesing for a new historically significant place to eat, you’re about to get your fix. This July, the B&O American Brasserie will open in the old B&O building in the Inner Harbor (2 N. Charles Street) as the first step to reintroducing the building as a Hotel Monaco (the first Kimpton Hotel [...]
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Development Spotlight — New Green Hotel
May 22nd, 2009 No Comments
Occasionally it’s nice to be reminded of the good that big corporations can accomplish by way of their corporate bigness. Two years ago, ground broke on a new Fairfield Inn and Suites in the Inner Harbor (101 President Street) on the site of the old Baltimore Brewing Company. Aside from the usual fanfare that accompanies [...]
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Zero Wheels Best
April 9th, 2009 No Comments
Here’s a new toy for use in supplementing your real estate-driven daydreams. It’s a web site called walkscore.com, and it’s more or less easy to use once you get past the initially counterintuitive layout. Why, pray tell, should you care about a walk score, whatever that means? Well, I had fun typing in addresses of [...]
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Events Listing, Weekend of 3/6
March 6th, 2009 No Comments
The weather is warming and it makes us want to stick our hands in some dirt. The only problem is, we couldn’t even manage to keep our window sill herb garden alive last year. Lucky for us, though, this Thursday (March 12) at 6:30 p.m., local green space–advocates Community Greens host a workshop [...]
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Four Seasons Project Scrapped—What’s Next?
January 23rd, 2009 No Comments
The bad news first: We won’t be getting our Four Seasons condos anytime soon. Plans for the luxe Four Seasons Hotel and Residences originally called for a 44-story waterfront building; lower floors would serve as a hotel and upper floors would be sold as condos. As you’ve probably heard, the new, scaled-back plan instead [...]
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The Inner Harbor: Something for the Home Folks?
January 13th, 2009 No Comments
The Inner Harbor does a good job attracting tourists, but not people living in downtown, Fells Point, Federal Hill, Otterbein, or Locust Point.
That may change if developer David Cordish can have his way. You know Cordish Co. as the company that built the ESPN Zone and Power Plant Live. Now they want to buy the [...]
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