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By Don Markus | October 13, 2009
Plans for the redevelopment of central Columbia will be unveiled during presentations Tuesday and Wednesday nights at the Howard County Board of Education offices, beginning at 7 o'clock each night. General Growth Properties, Columbia's master developer, has crafted two separate bills in recent months that will be introduced to the public this week and voted upon by the County Council later this year. According to council Chairwoman Mary Kay Sigaty, a West Columbia Democrat who represents the area most affected by the plan, the council is hopeful that the bills will be introduced for a vote in November.
NEWS
By Larry Carson | October 4, 2009
The Howard County Council has scheduled two public information meetings at 7 p.m. Oct. 13 and 14 on the proposed legislation to allow General Growth Properties to redevelop central Columbia. The meetings will be held at school board headquarters on Route 108 at Cedar Lane. The meetings are intended to give residents a chance to see and study what the General Plan amendment and the Zoning Regulation Amendment to be introduced in November will contain. A new video streaming technology that will allow residents to view the meetings and other County Council meetings on their home computers is to become functional Monday.
NEWS
September 29, 2009
On September 25, 2009 CHARLES E. SAVOY. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Wednesday after 1:00 P.M. where the family will receive friends from 5 to 7 P.M. The family will also receive friends on Thursday at Columbia Community Church, 8516 Thomas Williams Way, Columbia, MD, at 10 A.M., followed by funeral service at 11 A.M.
NEWS
By Larry Carson | September 27, 2009
Preparatory work on the long-planned dredging of Lake Elkhorn in Columbia is to begin in early October with the award of the dredging bid to a Chester, Pa., firm, according to an announcement from the Columbia Association. Mobile Dredging and Pumping Co. was chosen from among four finalists for the job that the announcement said would remove about 52,000 cubic yards of sediment from the 34-year-old lake, which has never been extensively dredged before. Several aspects of the job remained unclear, however.
NEWS
By Larry Carson | September 27, 2009
Five years of talks, proposals and hearings on plans for rejuvenating central Columbia are entering their final phase, but the Howard County Council will likely hold public information sessions before legislation is introduced, members said. The two-part plan would become two separate bills crafted by General Growth Properties, Columbia's master developer, said council Chairwoman Mary Kay Sigaty, a West Columbia Democrat who represents the area most affected by the 30-year redevelopment plan.
NEWS
By Larry Carson | September 6, 2009
The conceptual portion of the complex plan to remake Columbia's downtown over the next three decades has won county planning board approval after five months of discussions among the volunteer members. The board must now tackle changes to the second part of the package - specific zoning regulations that give the policy goals legal force. The plan calls for up to 5,500 new residential units, 4.3 million square feet of office space, 1.25 million square feet of retail space, new hotels, parking garages, environmental and roadway improvements and new cultural buildings.
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By Larry Carson | September 5, 2009
Sitting in his empty barbershop with the television blaring, 65-year-old Anthony Tringali recalled better times at Wilde Lake Village Center, where his shop opened with the birth of the new town in June 1967. "I had five barbers working for me at one time," he said. "Now I'm down to one and a half - and I'm the one." Between the recession and the closing of the center's anchor Giant supermarket and several other stores, Tringali's business is down by half again in the past two years, he said, but he's not done.
NEWS
By Frederick N. Rasmussen | August 16, 2009
George Moore Brady Jr., a founding director of the James W. Rouse Co. who later became a national leader in low-income housing, died of pneumonia Monday at his home in Bethesda. He was 87. Mr. Brady, the son of a prominent attorney and a homemaker, was born in Baltimore and raised on St. John's Road in Roland Park. He attended Boys' Latin School and graduated in 1940 from Canterbury School in New Milford, Conn. Mr. Brady attended the Johns Hopkins University for three years, during which time he was active in the ROTC.
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By Jacques Kelly | August 16, 2009
Eugene Willis, a Howard County orthopedic surgeon, died of heart disease Tuesday at his Ellicott City home. He was 67. Born in Newport News, Va., and raised in Westminster and on the grounds of Fort Meade, he was a 1960 Arundel High School graduate. He earned a degree at Western Maryland College, now McDaniel College, where he played baseball and was a fraternity president. He earned a medical degree at the University of Maryland, served in the Army and did his orthopedic internship at Georgetown University Hospital and a residency at Kernan Hospital.
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By Jacques Kelly | August 12, 2009
Pinnie L. Ross, who preached self-esteem and confidence to the hundreds of girls she taught at her Columbia charm school, died of a stroke Aug. 4 at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. The Columbia resident was 81. Born Pinnie (pronounced piney) Lucille Staton in Pactolus, N.C., she attended St. Augustine College in Raleigh, N.C., where she was later given an honorary degree. She also graduated from the Baltimore Academy of Modeling and the Christine Volmer School of Make Up Artists.