NEWS
By Jules Witcover | October 12, 2001
NEW YORK -- The other night in one of the city's most popular midtown steakhouses, every table on two floors was filled and there was standing room only at the restaurant's three bars. It was a balmy, shirtsleeves night uncommon for October, and New York was back. Or so it seemed at this one prominent feeding and watering hole, and on the busy midtown streets, about a month after the two terrorist attacks that had turned lower Manhattan's financial district into a war zone. As debris movers, firefighters and police continued to toil there, much of the rest of New York seemed to be heeding President Bush's advice to "get back to normal."
NEWS
By Rosalie Falter and Rosalie Falter,SPECIAL TO THE SUN | September 16, 2001
THE USUAL DRONE of lunchtime chatter slowly faded, then stopped. At Snyder's Willow Grove Restaurant, a man with Linthicum roots was describing his journey from the terror of the World Trade Center to the sanctuary of church, family and home. The man is William K. Sieglein, a 38-year-old manager with Gaithersburg-based Enterprise Security Management Services. He was eating at the restaurant with his father, Bill Sieglein, who still lives in Linthicum, and friend Harold Lewis, a former resident of the area.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Edward Gunts and Edward Gunts,Sun Architecture Critic | August 13, 2000
There are two ways downtown Baltimore could evolve over the next 20 years. It could become more like Atlanta, with glitzy office towers and hotels rising from a barren base of parking lots and public plazas. Or it could follow the model of San Francisco and Chicago, with well-preserved older buildings interspersed with contemporary structures. The path Baltimore takes may well depend on the outcome of a legal dispute involving Redwood Street, the one-time "Wall Street of the South" and heart of the city's historic financial district.
NEWS
By Ellen Gamerman and Ellen Gamerman,SUN NATIONAL STAFF | July 21, 2000
NEW YORK -- It took Paul Kothari 24 hours to become an official American capitalist. The online Wall Street publication he helped build, TheStreet.com, went public the morning of May 11, 1999, its stock value soaring in frenzied trading. That afternoon, a far-richer Kothari left the trading-floor excitement, climbed into a waiting car and arrived at a crowded immigration office in Newark, N.J., where the Indian immigrant promptly took an oath to become a U.S. citizen. Since his first weekend in the United States in 1976, when he watched the bicentennial fireworks over the Washington Monument, Kothari has been waiting for his wild ride on Wall Street.
NEWS
By Edward Gunts and Edward Gunts,SUN STAFF | April 6, 2000
WITH THE Southern Hotel reduced to rubble, another corner of Baltimore's historic financial district is headed in the same direction. Despite pleas from local preservationists that the city preserve two buildings near the southeast corner of Redwood and Light streets, housing officials appear likely to allow a Bethesda-based developer to demolish them to make way for a 125-suite hotel. An administrative panel that met last month to review the case has concluded that the city acted properly in issuing demolition permits for the vacant structures, the former Sun Life Insurance Co. building at 109 E. Redwood St. and the former Fairfax Savings and Loan Building at 17 Light St. As a result, "the permits will stand," said John Milton Wesley, spokesman for the housing department.
NEWS
By EDWARD GUNTS and EDWARD GUNTS,SUN STAFF | February 18, 1999
A LANDMARK ON Redwood Street that once appeared destined for demolition apparently has been spared from the wrecking ball. After months of studies, Baltimore officials say they believe they have found a way to build a parking garage near the heart of the city's financial district without tearing down one of its most significant structures, a former office building at 131 E. Redwood St. Owners of the vacant eight-story building, once headquarters...