Apartments

ROCKVILLE -- A boarded-up hotel here has been taken off the rolls of the Resolution Trust Corp., the federal entity that liquidates assets of failed savings and loan organizations, and is being converted into 60 low-income apartments.In January, the Montgomery Housing Partnership, a local nonprofit agency, bought the 30-year-old, 82-room Town Center Inn, which had been vacant nine months, and an adjoining 14-unit apartment house for $1.35 million with public financing and bank loans. The first units are expected to be ready this summer, and the project is set for completion in January.

A four-alarm fire swept through the Woodside Apartments in Glen Burnie yesterday morning, causing $1 million in property damage but injuring no one, fire officials said.Lt. Robert Kornmann, a spokesman for the Anne Arundel County fire department, said 16 apartments were damaged, a dozen so heavily that their occupants were left homeless.The Red Cross placed six families in a hotel for the night, Annette Mooney, a spokeswoman, said. The other families evacuated made arrangements to stay with families or relatives, Ms. Mooney said.

Fed up with the collapsing ceilings, broken elevator and pools of water in the lobby, the Rev. Steven Jeter hoped the city of Baltimore would resurrect his once-elegant apartment complex on North Charles Street.But his faith in the management company hired by the city to restore the long-neglected Queen Anne Belvedere Apartments has been tested.In the six weeks since the city foreclosed on the converted turn-of-the-century rowhouses, from 1204 to 1301 N. Charles St., Mr. Jeter and other tenants have complained that repairs are slow and sloppy.

A Boston builder has been chosen to build the first rental apartments at Owings Mills New Town, the 5,500-home planned development that will be the Baltimore area's largest newresidential project during the first half of the 1990s.The Dolben Co. Inc. of Boston will spend $22 million to build 304 apartments on 15 acres off Lakeside Boulevard, said Chuck Fitzgibbon, a spokesman for New Town owner and developer Ahmanson Developments Inc.As developer, Ahmanson's role includes selecting builders to construct the smaller subdivisions within New Town.

A federal judge has issued an order preventing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development from evicting the last remaining residents of a West Baltimore apartment complex and moving them to a motel. HUD had notified tenants of the Uplands Apartments, where about two dozen of some 900 apartments are occupied, that they would be moved to a motel if they did not find alternative housing this week. HUD agreed not to move the tenants after lawyers for the Legal Aid Bureau filed a motion in U.S. District Court in Baltimore last Friday to stop the eviction, saying such a move would have "dire" consequences for the tenants, many of whom are elderly or disabled.

The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore has lined up more than $8 million to build a housing complex in Pikesville for the low- and moderate-income elderly, the organization announced yesterday.Most of the funding for the 116-apartment Weinberg House will come from a $7 million grant approved Friday by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Baltimore County will contribute $525,000 in federal community development block grant funds. The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, a private philanthropic organization, will donate $500,000 for the project.

In high-rent Howard County, where new apartment rents can top $1,800 a month, anything less expensive is welcome. So county officials are bending over backward to help a developer buy a large Elkridge apartment complex before year's end. By helping the Bozzuto Development Co. close a $66 million deal to buy the 634-unit Sherwood Crossing complex, the county hopes to extend moderate-income status to 20 percent of the apartments and perhaps get up to...

Elaine Watson, 65, spent three years searching for an apartment complex that catered to the special housing needs of senior citizens.In August, her search ended at Woodsdale Senior Housing, a planned community of 130 apartments designed and built specifically for senior citizens. The project is located on Woodsdale Road near Constant Friendship."I don't have drugs here, or alcoholics, or older teen-agers whose parents don't care what they're doing," said Watson, who previouslylived in Dundalk.

County police converged on two Laurel apartments Friday morning and arrested three men on drug charges after a brief investigation, police said.Police charged Michael Jerome Nichols, 22, and Antonio Jerome Marshall, 20, of the 100 block of Charlotte Road, and Christopher B. Henley, 27, of the 200 block of Charlotte Road. The three were charged with possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia. Their apartments are within several doors of each other in the Tall Oaks apartment complex.Police said the three arrests were related but did not elaborate.

As workers scurried last week to complete work on the newly renovated Independent Can Co. building in Canton, 67-year-old Marie Dietsch marveled at her new home."