Limited Partnership

SYKESVILLE - The Town Council opened three bids Monday for purchase of historic Bloomfield Manor.The town wants to sell the century-old home and its 2.35 acres on Obrecht Road, after it was given to the town last year by developer Lowell R. Glazer.The highest bid -- $62,500 -- came from JDA Limited Partnership and Maryland Limited Partnership. Construction Associates Inc. of Randallstown, Baltimore County, bid $25,000.The third bid, from Mary Mercer Grough and Carol L. Mercer, was for $8,100.

Smart employers know that offering good salaries and perks will help attract the best and brightest employees. That's why a growing number, including a majority of Fortune 500 companies, are choosing to extend health insurance benefits to same-sex domestic partners. It's a logical step for companies that genuinely seek to end workplace discrimination. The public sector is moving to do the same, which makes it all the more unfortunate that Gov. Martin O'Malley has not chosen to provide such a benefit to state employees.

NVR L.P., the parent of NVHomes and Ryan Homes, said yesterday that it would emerge from the protection of bankruptcy court Sept. 30, issuing $160 million in junk bonds to pay off its bank creditors and issuing most of its stock to former bondholders."

Harborplace, the 27-year-old centerpiece of Baltimore's renaissance, deserves more respect. Its latest indignity? The addition of 14 kiosks along the waterfront promenade offering the kind of fare more associated with Ocean City's boardwalk than a showcase urban park. Terrific for those in need of sunglasses and tanning lotion, appalling to all who expected the Inner Harbor's open-air aesthetics to be protected from such excesses. When, oh when, will city government learn? The decision to permit Harborplace Associates Limited Partnership (the local affiliate of General Growth Properties, the firm that bought Rouse Co.)

The following are recent bankruptcy filings in U.S. District Court in Baltimore.APRIL 17Susan L. Addington (Addington Advantage Interior & Gallery), 6 Buttrick Court, Apt. 303, Timonium. Business filed for Chapter 7. Assets: $2,100. Liabilities: $40,855.Timothy Franklin Covey and Margaret Jane Covey (C&P Waterfowlers, Miles River Painting Co.), 28110 Glebe Road, Easton. Painter and hunting guide filed for Chapter 7. Assets: $8,668. Liabilities: $25,431.Edward Anthony Wade (Edward Wade Home Improvement, Wade Door Service)

WASHINGTON - Vornado Realty Trust, New York's largest office-building owner, has agreed to buy a Washington office building from a limited partnership partly owned by trustees of the company for $77 million. The New York-based real estate investment trust will pay about $32 million in cash and $45 million in partnership units for the 370,000-square-foot building at 2101 L Street, Vornado said. Robert H. Smith and Robert P. Kogod, trustees of Vorando, together with family members, own 24 percent of the limited partnership.

June 22 Ellen S. Rutledge, 1153 Walters Mill Road, Forest Hill, a self-employed insurance agent, filed for an adjustment of debts under Chapter 13. Assets: $455,435; liabilities: $476,036 Abbreviations a.k.a.: also known as; c/o: care of; d/b/a: doing business as; t/a: trading as; n/a: not available; H/C: Holding Company; LLC: Limited Liability Company; L/P: Limited Partnership; J/V: Joint Venture; P/A: Professional Association; P/C: Professional Corporation

Just when developer David Kornblatt thought things couldn't get worse, they did.His Baltimore real estate brokerage firm, the David Kornblatt Co., has been under federal bankruptcy protection for two months.On Monday, he filed for bankruptcy protection for four partnerships that developed, manage and lease the downtown St. Paul Plaza office tower.That same day, three banks filed a petition under Chapter 7 of the bankruptcy laws, in essence an attempt to force Kornblatt and his wife, Barbara, into personal bankruptcy.

The dollar volume of recorded commercial real estate transactions in the Baltimore area during the first half of 1990 was $721 million, a 29 percent drop from the volume in the first half of 1989, according to a report from Rufus S. Lusk & Son Inc.The number of commercial transactions during the first half of this year was 2,905, also a 29 percent decline from the 4,112 sales during the comparable period of 1989, according to Lusk.The dollar volume of Baltimore-area land sales was $175 million, a 57 percent decline from the $408 million in sales in the first half of 1990, Lusk said.

Recent filings in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Maryland, Baltimore City:Oct. 23Maryland Prime Meats Inc.,wholesale/bulk meat sales, 7339 E. Furnace Branch Road, Glen Burnie, has filed for Chapter 11 protection. Leroy A. Sahm, president. Assets: $13,401; Liabilities: Abbreviationsa.k.a.: also known as; d/b/a: doing business as; t/a: trading as; n/a: not available; LLC: Limited Liability Company; L/P: Limited Partnership; J/V: Joint Venture; P/A: Professional Association; P/C: Professional CorporationPub Date: 10/27/97

The Harford County Development Advisory Committee serves as a forum for the review of subdivision and site plans submitted to the Department of Planning and Zoning by those seeking building permits. The committee will review the following proposals at 9 a.m. Wednesday in the second-floor conference room of the Harford County government building, 220 S. Main St., Bel Air: Box Hill South Corporate Center Location: On the north side of Box Hill south Parkway, east and west sides of Box Hill Corporate Center Drive.

The Rouse Co. ended a contentious battle over its Columbia headquarters yesterday by agreeing to buy the distinctive white building for $11 million, offering a decisive answer to years of rumors that it wanted to leave the nationally known community it birthed. Speculation reached a fever pitch in the past week when it came to light that Rouse might be forced out of its Town Center location because it had failed to renew its lease in time. Some residents feared the company's embarrassing mistake was actually an exit strategy in disguise, because the major developer has shopping centers nationwide and two sizable community development projects in Nevada and Texas, while Columbia is nearing completion.

WASHINGTON - Vornado Realty Trust, New York's largest office-building owner, has agreed to buy a Washington office building from a limited partnership partly owned by trustees of the company for $77 million. The New York-based real estate investment trust will pay about $32 million in cash and $45 million in partnership units for the 370,000-square-foot building at 2101 L Street, Vornado said. Robert H. Smith and Robert P. Kogod, trustees of Vorando, together with family members, own 24 percent of the limited partnership.

Dec. 21 R&J Trucking Co. Inc., 3208 Lynch Road, Baltimore, filed under Chapter 7. Principal: Randall Shiflett, president. Assets: $102,210; liabilities: $205,756.11 Dec. 26 R&B Signs Inc., 7972 Belair Road, Fullerton, t/a Signs Now, filed under Chapter 7. Principal: Randall D. McDonald, president. Assets: $11,169.46; liabilities: $162,927,12 Abbreviations a.k.a.: also known as; c/o: care of; d/b/a: doing business as; t/a: trading as; n/a: not available; n/l: not listed; H/C: Holding Company; LLC: Limited Liability Company; L/P: Limited Partnership; J/V: Joint Venture; P/A: Professional Association; P/C: Professional Corporation

The River Downs golf course near Finksburg is to be offered for sale at auction next month, after a foreclosure action filed this week in Carroll Circuit Court. "We intend to sell the property," said Richard A. Moore, president of Gaylord Brooks Investment Co. Inc. of Phoenix, a party in the River Downs Golf Course Limited Partnership that is named as the defendant. "The golf course is a nice golf course," Moore said. "It needs to be redesigned" to accommodate golfers with high handicaps who find it too difficult, he said.

Dec. 10 John E. & Kimberly K. Russell, 1207 Ashmeade Square, Belcamp, t/a Russell Concrete, jointly filed under Chapter 7. Assets: $162,460; liabilities: $203,178 Dec. 11 McKinley J. and Cynthia L. (a.k.a. Cynthia Harrison) Williams, 3919 Brenbrook Drive, Randallstown, self-employed individuals, filed under Chapter 7. Assets: $139,040; liabilities: $171,933.62 Abbreviations a.k.a.: also known as; c/o: care of; d/b/a: doing business as; t/a: trading as; n/a: not available; n/l: not listed; H/C: Holding Company; LLC: Limited Liability Company; L/P: Limited Partnership; J/V: Joint Venture; P/A: Professional Association; P/C: Professional Corporation

Nov. 8 Communications Consulting & Services Inc. 1912 Furnace Road, Jarrettsville, a.k.a. CCS, filed under Chapter 7. Principal: Margaret A. Graff, president. Assets: $111,160.23; liabilities: $155,340.41 Timothy A. DeSilver, 10416 Brighton Road, Ocean City, a photographer, filed under Chapter 7. Assets: $788; liabilities: $68,638.42 Paul R. Whittington, 117 Fort Hoyle Road, Joppa, operating a carpentry business, filed under Chapter 7. Assets: $534,520; liabilities: $286,804 Nov. 13 Monumental Glass Co. Inc. 3630 Commerce Ave., Baltimore, filed for protection under Chapter 11. Principal: Dana S. LeCompte, president.