A state program designed to help Baltimore and nearby counties prepare for a massive infusion of military workers will generate just a fraction of the $5 million state officials had hoped to dole out for essential public improvements.
As Lorraine Mirabella reports in today's paper, thousands of realigned defense jobs aimed at Aberdeen Proving Ground are prompting something unusual for the 2009 economy: Not just office-building construction, but in some cases office-building construction without any tenants signed up.
Just outside the main gate of Aberdeen Proving Ground , construction workers are finishing up a three-story building's brick exterior, preparing to install windows and divide the vast interior into offices.
St. John Properties Inc., the Baltimore-based developer of the GATE project, said the defense firm signed a full-building lease at 6280 Guardian Gateway, a three-story, Class A building now under construction.
At their annual meeting Thursday with the Maryland Department of Transportation, Harford County officials will repeat their request for improvements to intersections near Aberdeen Proving Ground .
Harford County home builder Clark Turner is on the hunt for as much land as he can acquire in Harford and Cecil counties to make up for a severe lack of new homes.
The Baltimore region will be a hotspot for growth in the coming years, and now could be the best time for a new entrepreneur to make her mark - if she plays her cards right.
A scarred blast wall bears witness to the thousands of munitions exploded at a test site on the Aberdeen Proving Ground, a sprawling Army base north of Baltimore.
Soldiers carry a heavy load, with basic body armor alone weighing about 45 pounds, not to mention firearms, ammunition, radio equipment, food and other tools they may need for a mission.
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