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The COVID-19 pandemic took a heavy toll on the Hilton Baltimore, and a new audit of the hotel's performance shows the extent of the damage.

  A rendering of the imagined Warner Street District between M&T Bank Stadium and Horseshoe Casino Baltimore. The goal is to make the pathway more appealing for sports fans to walk to the casino. (Image: Baltimore Development Corporation) Known as the Warner Street District, the presently industrial, uninviting walk between Oriole Park at Camden Yards and M&T Bank Stadium, home of the NFL Baltimore Ravens, has long been blamed for Horseshoe’s underperformance. Caesars and the Baltimore Development Corporation, the city’s economic development arm, are investing heavily in transforming the...

Print WBAL-TV Baltimore City will issue more than $2 million in additional grant funding to caterers, restaurants and taverns, Mayor Brandon Scott announced Thursday. The funds, which were made available by the state, are restricted to COVID-19-related expenses. The Baltimore Development Corp. will administer the grants. "Small businesses are the backbone of a healthy Baltimore economy and our road to recovery must run through them. But further support is required to navigate the ongoing uncertainty of the pandemic," Scott said in a statement. "The additional resources from the st...

Updated: 11:56 AM EDT May 6, 2021 Baltimore City will issue more than $2 million in additional grant funding to caterers, restaurants and taverns, Mayor Brandon Scott announced Thursday.The funds, which were made available by the state, are restricted to COVID-19-related expenses. The Baltimore Development Corp. will administer the grants."Small businesses are the backbone of a healthy Baltimore economy and our road to recovery must run through them. But further support is required to navigate the ongoing uncertainty of the pandemic," Scott said in a statement. "The additional resou...

Before she was deported from the United States in 1919, labor organizer and anarchist leader Emma Goldman was considered one of the most magnetic speakers of her time, drawing huge crowds whenever she lectured. A century later, community leaders in central Baltimore are hoping that the bookstore and coffeehouse that bears her name will draw crowds to the Waverly Main Street renewal district and the Greenmount Avenue corridor. After more than three years in Mount Vernon, the worker-owned cooperative that runs Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse has announced plans to leave its current locati...