Come and enjoy oil paintings, photography, water colors, quilts, and acrylics by Cross Keys residents. LAI Baltimore member Joe Nathanson’s art will be featured. Joe Nathanson, a retired urban planner and community development consultant, was introduced to oil painting while in high school in Philadelphia. In more
Read more →In my end-of-year column, I placed a spotlight on the many new projects underway or beginning to come to fruition around Baltimore City. Some of those changes have already made their mark in the early weeks of the new year. The new Lexington Market has had its
Read more →The recently concluded winter 2023 meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors focused on the many challenges facing the country’s large and medium-sized cities. Many of the concerns were those directly related to the continuing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic dislocations. With city
Read more →Based on the many announced projects moving from drawing boards to groundbreakings, it should be a banner year for development in and around Baltimore in 2023. Despite expected economic headwinds and a pandemic that has not surrendered its grip on us, developers are moving ahead with a
Read more →Costly, Complex and Confusing By: Joe Nathanson November 25, 2022 The project is complex, with many moving parts, vast in scope, and costly. I’m referring to the proposal to alleviate traffic congestion in the Washington suburbs by replacing the aging American Legion bridge spanning the Potomac River and adding
Read more →A Montgomery County planning study looks at historical patterns of housing discrimination. The red areas signify areas and neighborhoods with past racial covenants, and the blue areas lacked such restrictions. By Dan Brendel – Staff Reporter, Washington Business Journal Article can also be found on Washington Business Journal‘s website. Dec
Read more →LAI Baltimore celebrated Our 30th Anniversary as a chapter at our 2022 Annual Meeting at Rusty Scupper. Thank you to our keynote speaker Jayson Williams of Mayson-Dixon Companies. Welcome to our new members: Jack Nye, Rob Brennan and Corinna Moebius. Congratulations to our new President Elect Michael Cordes
Read more →Congratulations to LAI Baltimore Member Seema Iyer on her newest venture. Seema Iyer turns her data expertise toward the global refugee crisis While she’s not relocating, the longtime leader of the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance is taking her data innovation expertise to a position supporting the UN
Read more →New book captures the 1940s -1980s battles over expressways Recently released: Stop the Road, Stories from the Trenches of Baltimore’s Road Wars is now available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The book recently ranked ranks no. 1 for new releases in “Regional Politics Planning,” on Amazon.
Read more →Baltimore magazine proudly presents its inaugural Home & Design Awards, a local competition for architects, interior designers, artisans, builders, and landscape designers. A distinguished panel of nationally renowned professionals will judge entries in 40 categories. Architects, interior designers, artisans, builders, and landscape artists can submit outstanding projects
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