Reisterstown Road

Home Depot, the nation's largest home improvement retailer, plans to build a store at Reisterstown Road Plaza in Baltimore, an addition that would kick off a partial overhaul of the 39-year-old mall. To move ahead, the Atlanta-based chain needs City Council approval. The council is considering amending the planned unit development ordinance governing land use at the Reisterstown Road site. The new store, to be built behind the existing mall, would be 95,000 square feet with an 18,700-square-foot garden center.

As of 9 a.m. Thursday, traffic was slow on the inner loop of I-695 near Reisterstown Road, due to an accident. Accidents were slowing traffic on I-695 at the Curtis Creek Drawbridge in Baltimore County, Oliver Street and Milton Avenue in Baltimore City, and Darien Drive and Parkland Place in Glen Burnie. A disabled vehicle was blocking traffic on U.S. 50 westbound at the Bay Bridge. Debris in the road was blocking traffic on I-95 northbound at Route 100 in Howard County.

When Baltimore County officials gathered for a news conference in the fall to reveal plans to revitalize the half-empty Owings Mills Mall, a cheery slogan lit up a screen behind them: "Owings Mills — it's happening!" The mall event was one of three major economic development announcements within six months for an area that has long awaited a makeover. But behind the scenes, a battle is brewing between the prominent developers investing in the projects. Plans for Owings Mills include a $65 million revamping of the mall; a huge, mixed-use development called Metro Centre near the end of Baltimore's subway line; and Foundry Row, an upscale retail complex anchored by a Wegmans grocery store at the Solo Cup manufacturing site off Reisterstown Road.

Attention, Baltimore commuters: The JFX has been reduced to two lanes in each direction. That means, come Monday morning, it's going to be extra-crowded on the expressway. To get to work on time, check out the directions below for alternate routes into the city. And leave early! The expressway's left lanes have been closed near 29th St. and Druid Lake Drive to permit repairs to damaged drainage pipes under the highway, said the Baltimore Department of Transportation, which expects the project to take as many as eight weeks.

At the moment, against all odds, Hold The Phone Harry is mostly holding his tongue. Who could get a word in edgewise? The usual gang of kibitzers, guys now saying hello to their 70s and still getting together twice every day, guys who used to talk of the joys of sex but now talk of the joys of salad bars, are sitting here trying to explain the allure of Miller's Deli, and even Hold The Phone Harry has to spot his openings.This is an old gang in a new setting. For the past three decades, through the various seasons at Pimlico Race Course, where many still matriculate religiously, through the deeply important moments of life from a boy's first football pool to a man's most recent prostate surgery, there's something important happening here.

A 25-year-old man was in critical condition after he was shot in the chest Sunday afternoon by a masked assailant in northwest Baltimore, police said. After the victim was shot, he flagged down a passing Northwestern District officer in a police cruiser in the 5400 block of Reisterstown Road, and the officer summoned medical help. The victim, whose name police did not release, was transported to an area hospital, where he immediately underwent emergency surgery, police said. The suspect who shot the man was not caught.

The right lane of southbound Reisterstown Road has been closed south of Greenspring Valley Road in Baltimore County while crews repair a water main break, according to a Baltimore public works spokesman. Only the left lane remains open to traffic. There is both an 8-inch service line and a 16-inch main in that area.

As of 9 a.m. Thursday, traffic was slow on the inner loop of I-695 near Reisterstown Road, due to an accident. Accidents were slowing traffic on I-695 at the Curtis Creek Drawbridge in Baltimore County, Oliver Street and Milton Avenue in Baltimore City, and Darien Drive and Parkland Place in Glen Burnie. A disabled vehicle was blocking traffic on U.S. 50 westbound at the Bay Bridge. Debris in the road was blocking traffic on I-95 northbound at Route 100 in Howard County.

Continental Realty is proposing to expand Reisterstown Road Plaza by building 125,000 square feet of retail and flexible work space on an underutilized parking lot west of the main shopping center at Reisterstown Road and Patterson Avenue.Architects with the Columbia Design Collective last week showed Baltimore's Design Advisory Panel preliminary plans that call for the construction of three low-rise buildings ranging from 36,000 to 45,000 square feet.The buildings would be separated from the shopping center by a tree-lined boulevard and leased to a businesses that need flexible work space or research and development space, according to Vice President Mark Levy.

Caldor, the discount department store that left Reisterstown Road Plaza five years ago because of poor sales, will return to the mall for another try next year, a spokeswoman for the mall's owner said yesterday.Mary Pat Baxter, general counsel for Continental Realty Corp., said Caldor Inc. will replace Ames Department Stores, which informed the mall management this week it plans to close its store at the shopping center as part of the company's reorganization under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy law.Ms.

Attention, Baltimore commuters: The JFX has been reduced to two lanes in each direction. That means, come Monday morning, it's going to be extra-crowded on the expressway. To get to work on time, check out the directions below for alternate routes into the city. And leave early! The expressway's left lanes have been closed near 29 t h St. and Druid Lake Drive to permit repairs to damaged drainage pipes under the highway, said the Baltimore Department of Transportation, which expects the project to take as many as eight weeks.

Police investigating the death of a 7-year-old boy who was struck by a car while riding his bike in front of his home on Thursday said he rode into the path of vehicle at an intersection, according to a department spokeswoman. Prosecutors will have the final say on whether charges are filed, but police said preliminary conclusions point to pedestrian error. The boy, Marcell Wagstaff, was riding in the street against traffic in front of his house in the 5700 block of Rubin Ave., in the Glen neighborhood of Northwest Baltimore, according to police.

When Baltimore County officials gathered for a news conference in the fall to reveal plans to revitalize the half-empty Owings Mills Mall, a cheery slogan lit up a screen behind them: "Owings Mills — it's happening!" The mall event was one of three major economic development announcements within six months for an area that has long awaited a makeover. But behind the scenes, a battle is brewing between the prominent developers investing in the projects. Plans for Owings Mills include a $65 million revamping of the mall; a huge, mixed-use development called Metro Centre near the end of Baltimore's subway line; and Foundry Row, an upscale retail complex anchored by a Wegmans grocery store at the Solo Cup manufacturing site off Reisterstown Road.

The Dish : The Rachel Is nothing sacred? Suburban House Restaurant at 1700 Reisterstown Road in Pikesville offers its Reuben with a choice of corned beef, pastrami, roasted turkey or brisket. Can it be a Reuben without corned beef? Shouldn't there be a name for kraut, Swiss, rye, 1,000 Island dressing and pastrami? The Rachel ($9.79) is essentially a Reuben with slaw instead of kraut. And it's called the Rachel. After the first sampling of Suburban's Rachel, I stopped caring what they call it. Their corned beef was sweet, pink, sliced thin and stacked high — not too lean and just firm enough to keep from crumbling.

Moving the Martin State MARC station and improving Reisterstown Road at Painters Mill are Baltimore County's two top transportation priorities, County Executive Kevin Kamenetz told state officials Thursday. In the face of federal, state and local funding shortages, the county whittled down its wish list to those items because of the projects' economic development potential, he said. "We all know that we are facing difficult times," Kamenetz told Transportation Secretary Beverley K. Swaim-Staley, state lawmakers, County Council members and others at the meeting in Towson.

Former State Highway Administration chief Neil Pedersen testified Wednesday in federal court in Baltimore that state Sen. Ulysses S. Currie constantly asked him the status of transportation projects sought by Shoppers Food Warehouse but never mentioned being on the company's payroll. "At any point did he disclose to you that he had a financial relationship with Shoppers?" Assistant U.S. Attorney Leo J. Wise asked. "No, he did not," Pedersen replied. Currie, 74, a Prince George's County Democrat, is accused of accepting $245,000 in bribes from the supermarket chain between 2002 and 2008.

A five-alarm blaze that began in the linen department caused more than $1 million in damage yesterday to the Woolworth's store at Reisterstown Road Plaza and prompted the closing of most of the mall until tomorrow.No one was hurt in the fire, which was discovered about 9: 45 a.m. when a Woolworth's employee saw flames in the linen department.Smoke from the blaze prompted the evacuation of the mall. Except for Hechinger's, the 120-store mall will remain closed until tomorrow, according to Steven Erlanger, general manager of Reisterstown Road Plaza.

Two bodies were discovered yesterday afternoon in a Northwest Baltimore apartment, police said.Detective Rich Purtell said an officer on patrol was stopped about 1: 30 p.m. by a man who told him two people were dead in an apartment in the 4800 block of Reisterstown Road. The officer investigated and discovered the bodies in the one-bedroom unit.Neither body has been identified, and a preliminary investigation failed to reveal the cause of death, Purtell said.Pub Date: 5/10/99

A man was injured in Northwest Baltimore Friday night after being struck with a machete during a fight, Baltimore police reported. Officers responded to a call about 7:45 p.m. reporting a fight involving a machete between two Hispanic males at a shopping center in the 6600 block of Reisterstown Road. Police found one of the men with cuts to his arms and torso and had him transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Police said they had no further information about the suspect in the case.

A 25-year-old man was in critical condition after he was shot in the chest Sunday afternoon by a masked assailant in northwest Baltimore, police said. After the victim was shot, he flagged down a passing Northwestern District officer in a police cruiser in the 5400 block of Reisterstown Road, and the officer summoned medical help. The victim, whose name police did not release, was transported to an area hospital, where he immediately underwent emergency surgery, police said. The suspect who shot the man was not caught.