A few weeks after the Freddie Gray disturbances at North and Pennsylvania avenues in 2015, developer James Riggs deliberated whether he and his firm should embark upon a $21 million project to resurrect a beleaguered city block a mile away. “I stepped back, considered all the bad publicity, and [...]

Don Black found himself crying as he prepared to cut the ribbon for a new BB&T branch on North Avenue in West Baltimore. Black, the branch manager, is originally from an area of southeast Washington, D.C. not too different from the bank’s new Coppin Heights neighborhood, and grew up [...]

Workers from Southway Builders were puzzled initially by the presence of a rectangular well in the basement of 22 Light St., a commercial structure being converted into 40 units of affordable housing in downtown Baltimore. This swimming pool-like depression in the cellar was part of the operation of the [...]