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A new apartment complex geared specifically to police officers, firefighters and other first responders is coming to Gay Street in downtown Baltimore.

A new apartment complex geared specifically to police officers, firefighters and other first responders is coming to Gay Street in downtown Baltimore.

Paying for demolition, clearing legal hurdles and finding a purpose for the land are among the concerns in Baltimore after Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford announced Wednesday that Maryland intends to hand the State Center complex to the city for future redevelopment.

The city of Baltimore is officially throwing its hat in the ring for a new $1 billion federal agency being established to accelerate the pursuit of a cure for cancer and other ambitious medical research projects.

Jayne Miller goes 1-on-1 for last time with Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott

Once one of the city’s industrial jewels, the massive Packard complex is now one of the United States’ foremost examples of urban blight.

The city has aggressively taken on its blight problem.

The city has aggressively taken on its blight problem.

Detroit and other cities are looking to get rid of large eyesores to open up those spaces for redevelopment. For Detroit, that could mean rebuilding now mostly Black neighborhoods that thrived when factories were built decades ago and before the whites who worked in them moved away.

Detroit has aggressively taken on its blight problem since emerging from the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history eight years ago.