Promenade

A recent column concerning the city of Baltimore's announced decision to sue me, individually, and other citizens was grossly misleading and incomplete. It failed to mention some important information that would reveal that there's another side to this story. The article claimed that the Canton Urban Renewal Plan requires that a land-based promenade be installed along the harbor. In fact, the only obligation set forth in the Urban Renewal Plan is that the promenade be "permanent."

The city expects to start construction this fall on one of the final sections of the seven-mile Inner Harbor promenade. The $6.6 million project will replace a temporary wooden walkway with brick to match the rest of the promenade. It will connect to the path at President and Lancaster streets and stretch about a quarter-mile, from East Falls Avenue to Katyn Memorial Circle. The work, which to minimize disruptions will be done from barges, is expected to take a year to complete.

Promenade Girl lived up to her role as the odds-on favorite when she caught front-running Princess Pelona in the deep stretch to win yesterday's feature at Laurel Park, the $85,000 Nellie Morse Stakes for fillies and mares. Promenade Girl, a 4-year-old filly, broke sluggishly in the field of seven, but, under Erick Rodriguez, worked her way forward and mounted a drive to win the mile race by 1 3/4 lengths in 1 minute, 38.58 seconds. Princess Pelona held onto the runner-up spot and Ask Queenie finished third.

The contemporary Greek restaurant coming to the Promenade in Harbor East will not be named Limani. That name was taken, by a Greek restaurant in Roslyn, N.Y. Instead, the restaurant will be named Ouzo Bay, its owners say. The menu will include fresh fish flown in from the Mediterranean, grass-fed lamb and beef and homemade Greek favorites. Construction is underway for a summer opening.

For better or worse, the dogs -- both hot and pet -- have been banned from Havre de Grace's waterfront promenade.The beer cans and plastic containers buried in the marshy shallows of the Susquehanna along the wooden walkway will not be subjected to the insidious pollution of half-eaten buns and scraps of mustard-smeared wieners. The sensitive digestive systems of Chesapeake aquatic life, from the waterfowl and scavenger fish to worms and algae, will be saved from the decomposing organic discards of human consumption.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's administration agreed to pay $400,000 Wednesday toward building a brick walkway in Canton, a project intended to close a gap in the promenade along Baltimore's harbor. The walkway in front of The Moorings, a neighborhood of million-dollar townhouses off Boston Street, has been a source of contention between the city and the site's developer. The developer built a floating walkway instead of the brick sidewalk the city is constructing along the rest of the waterfront.

The city expects to start construction this fall on one of the final sections of the seven-mile Inner Harbor promenade. The $6.6 million project will replace a temporary wooden walkway with brick to match the rest of the promenade. It will connect to the path at President and Lancaster streets and stretch about a quarter-mile, from East Falls Avenue to Katyn Memorial Circle. The work, which to minimize disruptions will be done from barges, is expected to take a year to complete.

The floating promenade that rings the Moorings, a collection of million-dollar Canton townhomes, was intended to be a peaceful spot to stroll, jog or gaze over the water. But for city officials and townhome residents, it's been the source of several years of headaches — and could soon be the subject of a lawsuit. With the promenade in disrepair, the city wants the developer and homeowners to build a brick walkway at the water's edge that would join the seven-mile promenade that wraps around the Inner Harbor from Federal Hill to Canton.

After months of fund raising through its "Buy-A-Brick" campaign, the non-profit Baltimore Harbor Endowment will begin work April 15 on the first section of the waterfront brick promenade that it plans to build from Canton to Key Highway.A section of the waterfront near the Belt's Landing condominium complex in Fells Point has been selected for paving with more than 2,000 bricks purchased by individuals, families and companies in support of the group's 3-year campaign.The effort calls for 100,000 bricks, engraved with individual or corporate names, to be sold for the tax-deductible rate of $50 a piece and installed in designated segments of the waterfront.

The Baltimore Harbor Endowment, the citizen's group that has launched a "Buy-A-Brick" campaigh to help raise funds to build a 7.5 mile brick promenade from Canton to South Baltimore, is selling engraved bricks for a new section of the promenade on the Broadway Pier in Fells Point.The harbor endowment also has formed a board of advisors to work with private property owners and developers along the route to assure public access to the waterfront.Construction of the promenade is scheduled to start next spring on the 480-foot Broadway Pier, which is being rebuilt.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's administration agreed to pay $400,000 Wednesday toward building a brick walkway in Canton, a project intended to close a gap in the promenade along Baltimore's harbor. The walkway in front of The Moorings, a neighborhood of million-dollar townhouses off Boston Street, has been a source of contention between the city and the site's developer. The developer built a floating walkway instead of the brick sidewalk the city is constructing along the rest of the waterfront.

Here is what the audience would have liked to hear from the developer about their plan for the mall. All we heard was about process, not about product. It would have been exciting to hear the developer say the following: "As you know, the overall Downtown Plan calls for a pedestrian connection between the Mall-to-Lakefront, a multi-phase project that could take some time to realize. We are excited to propose the first phase of the Mall-to-Lakefront pedestrian connection. Our concept is to remove the L.L.Bean building to open up access to a promenade leading to a new Mall entrance.

This December, Bryan Voltaggio will open a new lunch-only eatery in Frederick, five blocks from Volt, his flagship restaurant, Volt. Its name is Lunchbox. Located on Frederick's Carroll Creek Promenade, at 50 Carroll Creek Way, adjacent to the Frederick County Library, Lunchbox is intended as a "stop for parents to grab a nutritious lunch for the kids" and a place for Frederick's professionals to grab something on the go. Just last week Volt announced the elimination of its lunch service along with the expansion of its dinner service.

Is there anything funnier than a bulldog from behind? Maybe four bulldogs from the same perspective. Here a dog walker is taking four big-butted canines for a stroll down the promenade at Carl Schurz Park in New York City.

We have a potentially wonderful 7-mile waterfront park from Canton to Fort McHenry that should become Baltimore's Central Park. While the Inner Harbor is the center of this, we should be thinking beyond it and taking advantage of greater opportunities. This is more important on many levels than just adding more Inner Harbor attractions. We need to bring major benefits to the whole area for residents and visitors alike. If we want a balance of amenities for both, we need to strongly incorporate the primarily residential waterfront areas beyond the Inner Harbor where neighborhoods meet the water.

A long-impassable section of the brick promenade that rings the Inner Harbor could soon be repaired if a settlement deal among Baltimore officials, a team of Harbor East developers and a design firm is approved by the city's spending board. The section of promenade, which spans the 1400 and 1500 blocks of Thames St., was built by the city with a state highway grant in 2004. It partially collapsed about three years ago, after "undetected soft soils" settled, shifting the bricks.

Laurel Park-based Promenade Girl, a Grade II winning mare who also has placed twice in Grade I stakes, is to run tomorrow in the Grade I, $500,000 Juddmonte Spinster Stakes at Keeneland. Marylander Howard Bender, who with his wife, Sondra, bred and own the mare, said yesterday that if Promenade Girl wins the race, which would automatically qualify her for the Breeders' Cup, she "will probably go" to the races in Monmouth, N.J., Oct. 26-27. But right now, the 5-year-old daughter of Carson City is tentatively scheduled to be sold Nov. 6 at the Lexington horse sales.

On a fall evening that feels more like August in Baltimore, James Pomfret strolled along the harbor with this postcard-perfect backdrop of skyscrapers silhouetted in a blaze of lights against the night sky.Pomfret knows the brick promenade hugging the Canton waterfront well: He's been walking it and working toward expanding the walkway from Canton to Locust Point for the better part of a decade. The Canton stockbroker and leader in the effort to complete the 7 1/2 -mile Baltimore Waterfront Promenade sees it as an investment in the city's most valuable, if still largely untapped, asset: its waterfront.

In the race for a seat on the Baltimore County Council in District 1, much debate revolves around a project that at best is years away from construction: a mixed-use commercial project far bigger than anything its developer has done before, which has not been officially filed and would be built on state-owned land in Catonsville that is not for sale. The Promenade — envisioned by Catonsville developer Steve Whalen as a complex of more than a million square feet including stores, restaurants, hotels, office, condominiums and public recreation area — has been discussed around Catonsville for years.

A recent column concerning the city of Baltimore's announced decision to sue me, individually, and other citizens was grossly misleading and incomplete. It failed to mention some important information that would reveal that there's another side to this story. The article claimed that the Canton Urban Renewal Plan requires that a land-based promenade be installed along the harbor. In fact, the only obligation set forth in the Urban Renewal Plan is that the promenade be "permanent."