Greenspring

Baltimore firefighters responded to a small bedroom fire Sunday afternoon in a second-floor apartment on the 2600 block of Loyola Southway in the Greenspring neighborhood. The fire was under control by 2 p.m. and did not spread beyond the apartment, said a Baltimore Fire Department spokesman, Kevin Cartwright, who added that the occupant of the apartment, who was not identified, refused to leave the premises. "There were no injuries, and the cause of the fire remains under investigation," Cartwright said.

Baltimore firefighters responded to a small bedroom fire Sunday afternoon in a second-floor apartment on the 2600 block of Loyola Southway in the Greenspring neighborhood. The fire was under control by 2 p.m. and did not spread beyond the apartment, said a Baltimore Fire Department spokesman, Kevin Cartwright, who added that the occupant of the apartment, who was not identified, refused to leave the premises. "There were no injuries, and the cause of the fire remains under investigation," Cartwright said.

Toll Brothers Inc. has 22 home sites available and a sales office open at Greenspring Ridge, an estate single-family home community in Baltimore County. The Reisterstown community offers two-story Colonial and stucco homes on wooded, 1-acre- plus sites. The homes are on well-and-septic systems and come with gas heat and cooking. Standard features among the seven home plans include a three-car side-entry garage, two-story foyer, granite kitchen counter tops, and masonry fireplace. While a model isn't open at Greenspring Ridge, one available model, the Coventry Manor, has been built at Toll Brothers' Hunt Valley Estates community.

A man died Friday evening after being struck by a car in Pikesville, police said. The man, whose age and identity will be released after his family is informed of his death, was hit by a sedan near the intersection of Smith and Greenspring avenues, according to Baltimore County police. He was hit at about 6:20 p.m., taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center and died several hours later, police said. The driver of the vehicle remained on the scene. A crash team is investigating to determine fault, police said.

Gilligan Homes has opened its Hunt Cup model in Greenspring Overlook at McDonogh Township, a townhouse community in Owings Mills.Public water and sewer and gas heat, cooking and hot water are standard features in the Baltimore County developmentThe Hunt Cup starts at $108,490 for 1,920 square feet of finished space.A sunken foyer, powder room, 18-by-10-foot great room, 13-by-9-foot dining room and a 11-by-9-foot kitchen are housed on the first floor.The second-floor bedroom is 14 feet by 13 feet with two walk-in closets and an option for a garden bath or sun room.

In stating his case for building a 2.5 million-square-foot retirement complex in the environmentally sensitive Greenspring Valley, developer John Erickson has argued that the site would be accessible to the many central county residents who want to retire to a "senior city" near their homes.We can't deny the great need for senior housing in Baltimore County. By the end of the decade, about 15 percent of the county's populace will be 60 or older. And according to the county's Department of Aging, the subdivision is second only to Dade County, Fla., in how fast the number of its senior citizens is growing.

John Erickson, the man behind the huge and hugely successful Charlestown senior housing community in Catonsville, wants to build a similar facility elsewhere in Baltimore County.Good idea.The potential site Mr. Erickson has in mind is a large parcel of land at the gateway to the county's picturesque Greenspring Valley, just south of Greenspring Valley Road and west of Falls Road.Terrible idea.As Mr. Erickson points out, there is a pressing need for affordable senior housing in Baltimore County, the jurisdiction with by far the highest median age in the local metropolitan area.

Louis Manzo, a Baltimore businessman, has found the anchor tenant he has been seeking in order to start work on a $7 million to $8 million shopping center on the site of the former Greenspring Dairy plant in north Baltimore.A&P, based in Montvale, N.J., leased 40,000 square feet at 1020-1040 W. 41st St. for a Super Fresh grocery store, according to Donald Dietz, a leasing agent with Hicks & Rotner. The site is at the junction of several neighborhoods, including Hampden, Roland Park and Hoes Heights.

As part of an attempt to re-establish library services -- at least on a limited basis -- in areas that had lost them to budget cuts, Baltimore County announced the opening of Greenspring Community Reading Center last night.The center is located inside the Atrium at Greenspring Shopping Center in the 2800 block of Smith Ave., on the site of the Wellwood library closed with eight others by former County Executive Roger B. Hayden to ease budgetary pressures in 1993. Officials said the center will open Tuesday.

The roaring bull market is stuffing many investors' wallets with money, but there are signs of trouble, worrisome enough to make even an optimist pause.There is talk of rising interest rates and weakening corporate profits. There's the specter of a severe market drop -- it hasn't fallen by more than 10 percent since 1990. Even Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has warned that investors may be too optimistic about rising stocks.But nervous investors should take heart.There are a number of "defensive" mutual funds designed to perform well in falling markets.

Stevenson University has bought the Shire Pharmaceuticals plant next door to its Owings Mills campus, a $10.5 million deal that a school official said will expand the grounds by a third and help meet the goal of increasing full-time student enrollment to 4,000 in the next two years. "It was just a great opportunity we couldn't pass up," Tim Campbell, Stevenson's executive vice president for financial affairs and chief financial officer, said of the sale that closed Tuesday, expanding the campus in northwestern Baltimore County from 74 to 102 acres.

As of 9 a.m. Thursday, traffic was slow on the inner loop of the Baltimore Beltway at Greenspring Avenue due to an accident. Emergency roadwork was slowing traffic on northbound and southbound U.S. 1 at Dunfield Road in Baltimore County. There were no major delays to mass transit systems.

This Sunday's review of Joey Chiu's Greenspring Inn, which will be celebrating its 20th annivesary later this summer. Some things have staying power, others don't. Also in 1991, John Steven Ltd. opened its garden and added table service. Leilani's Restaurant opened in the Scarlett O'Hara space on Antique Row, Weber's on Boston opened in what would become a notoroius Canton restaurant space, Grand Central (né Grand Central) opened in Mt. Vernon and a black-tie gathering atteneded the opening of Hackerman House at the Walters Art Museum (then, Gallery)

Baltimore police were faced with a traffic tie-up this morning in North Baltimore after a vehicle struck a utility pole and knocked it over, blocking the intersection of Northern Parkway and Greenspring Avenue during a rainy rush hour. A city police spokeswoman said officers had blocked off the intersection because wires from the pole were strewn across the road. The accident caused a power outage in the area, she said. There were no estimates for how long the intersection would be blocked.

The State Highway Administration will begin resurfacing work on Greenspring Valley Road Wednesday, requiring daytime lane closures over the next several months. The $2 million resurfacing project will extend along Route 130 in Baltimore County for 5 1/2 miles from Reisterstown Road to Falls Road. Lane closures will be permitted between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Monday-Friday until the work is completed. Flag crews will control traffic in the construction zone as workers mill and patch Greenspring Valley and apply the new surface.

Christopher Grove had been thinking about President's Day weekend for months. The Frederick trainer was confident that he had two horses -- Greenspring and Sweet Goodbye -- who could win a Grade II Stakes race, and so every move he made in the months prior to the holiday weekend was made with the Barbara Fritchie Handicap and the General George Handicap in mind. Then the snow tried to ruin everything. His horses couldn't train at his training center in Bowie, and he couldn't sleep.

After more than three years of struggling to make ends meet, the Greenspring minilibrary -- which was run by volunteers and operated on a shoestring budget -- will close its doors March 15.Fraeda Lewis, the library's executive director, said that the facility in Greenspring Shopping Center on Smith Avenue is being converted into office space and that she is searching for a new site in the Greenspring area."

A man died Friday evening after being struck by a car in Pikesville, police said. The man, whose age and identity will be released after his family is informed of his death, was hit by a sedan near the intersection of Smith and Greenspring avenues, according to Baltimore County police. He was hit at about 6:20 p.m., taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center and died several hours later, police said. The driver of the vehicle remained on the scene. A crash team is investigating to determine fault, police said.

A 62-year-old Baltimore pedestrian was killed Saturday night after a car struck him and left the scene, according to city police. James Little Jr. of the 4800 block of Lanier Ave. was struck by a 1997 Jeep Cherokee driving northbound in the 4700 block of Greenspring Ave., said Agent Donny Moses, a Baltimore police spokesman. Little was taken to Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:45 p.m. The driver of the car hit Little after swerving to avoid hitting another vehicle, also driving northbound on Greenspring Avenue, Moses said, and continued heading up the street.

Edwin I. Carson, former longtime owner-operator of a Northwest Baltimore filling station, died of cancer Sept. 27 at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Florida. The former Pikesville resident was 81. Born and raised in Baltimore, he was a 1948 graduate of Forest Park High School. He entered the National Guard and spent part of his five years in the service at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. Trained as an auto mechanic, Mr. Carson was proprietor for more than 30 years of Greenspring Auto Service, which was located at the western end of the Greenspring Shopping Center on Smith Avenue.