Ritz

On December 30, 2007, ELIZABETH B. RITZ (nee Zmijewski), beloved wife of Jack M. Ritz, loving sister of Regina Bates and her husband Cleve, sister in law of William Ritz and his wife Barbara, Edward Ritz and his wife Sheryl, Julia and her late husband Donald Ritz and the late Norien Wiegard and her husband Charles, also survived by many nieces and nephews. A Funeral Service will be held at the family owned Ruck Towson Funeral Home, Inc. 1050 York Road (beltway exit 26) on Thursday at 11A.M.

Ritz Camera & Image in Towson will be one of only 13 Ritz stores left in the U.S., part of a company strategy to retain a limited number of locations while focusing on the camera chain's online imaging business. Owner C&A Marketing Inc. acquired some Ritz stores, the Ritzpix Network and several websites after Ritz Camera & Image LLC underwent a bankruptcy liquidation last year. The Beltsville-based retailer, once the nation's largest specialty camera chain, failed to find a buyer in a Sept.

On November 2, 2004, EMMA ZELMA RITZ TUCKER, of Linthicum; beloved wife of the late Kenneth Ritz, Sr. for 32 years and the late Frank Tucker for 7 years; devoted mother of Ken F. Ritz, Jr. and his wife Doris and Kevin L. Ritz and his wife Christina; loving grandmother of Lauren Detorie and Kristen Ritz, Daniel Ritz and Nicole Ritz; caring great-grandmother of Sophie Detorie. The family will receive visitors at Singleton Funeral Home, P.A., 1 Second Avenue, S.W., Glen Burnie (at Crain Highway)

In December there were 22 properties that sold for $1 million or more in the Baltimore metro region - and nearly a third of them were at the Ritz-Carlton Residences on the Inner Harbor, according to records recently released by an affiliate of the region's multiple-listing service. It was a good month for the Ritz-Carlton, said Joe Graziose, an executive with the condos' developer, RXR Realty LLC. But end-of-the-year booms don't seem to be uncommon for the property, he said. In 2012, the Ritz-Carlton sold 31 units.

On July 18, 2004, GEORGE C. RITZ of Baltimore Highlands, beloved husband of Ruth R. Ritz (nee Riley) and devoted father of Susan Kuhl, stepfather of Gary M. Elliott. Dear brother of James Ritz, Mary Zeitchel, Katherine Robinson and the late Theresa Hager. Loving grandfather of Michael Elliott and Travis Kuhl. Dear friend of Dawn Nichols. Friends may call at the family owned Kirkley-Ruddick Funeral Home, P.A. 421 Crain Hwy., S.E., Glen Burnie on Tuesday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Prayers will be offered on Wednesday at 1 P.M. Interment in Glen Haven Memorial Park.

On January 5, 2006, ANNE MARIE RITZ of Yardley, PA; beloved mother of Kathleen Marie Ritz and Michael Ian Ritz; beloved sister of Charles Stewart, Paul, Lawrence, Philip, Timothy and Christopher Imwold, Alice Spencer, Patricia Clay, Muriel Crabbs, Kathleen Pollard, Mary Hirsh and Judith Jackson. Also survived by 28 nieces and nephews. Family and friends are invited to call at the STERLING-ASHTON-SCHWAB-WITZKE FUNERAL HOME OF CATONSVILLE, INC., 1630 Edmondson Avenue (1 mile west of Beltway exit 14)

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Special Events Series, the Harford Community College Foundation will present a benefit gala, "Puttin' on the Ritz," next Sunday, beginning with a champagne brunch at noon in the Edgewood Hall Apprenticeship and Training Center on campus.At 3 p.m., the Palm Court Theatre Orchestra will perform dance band music from 1900 to the 1940s in the Chesapeake Theater. The colorful British troupe sings, dances, whistles, and it is known to display a "Monty Python type of humor."

Henry C. Ritz, retired vice president for sales of the Baltimore Paint and Chemical Co., died of cancer Sunday at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. He was 84 and lived in the Dulaney Towers Condominiums and Apartments.A mass of Christian burial for Mr. Ritz was being offered today in the chapel at the Stella Maris Hospice, 2300 Dulaney Valley Road.He retired from the paint and chemical company about 18 years ago, ending a career that began when he went to work as a youth for the Murphy Varnish Co. in Newark, N.J., a predecessor of Baltimore Paint and Chemical.

On December 14, 2008, DOROTHY M. RITZ, devoted mother of Betty Adelung and her husband Tom and Susan Kuhl, beloved grandmother of Gwen, Tom, Jr. and Travis, loving great grandmother Sherry, Cyndie, Zach and Jennifer, dear great-great-grandmother of Blaize and Genesis. Visitation for Family and Friends will be held in the HUBBARD FUNERAL HOME, INC., 4107 Wilkens Avenue, Baltimore on Wednesday, December 17th from 3 to 5 and 7 and 9 PM with the funeral service on Thursday, December 18th at 10:00 am. Interment in Loudon Park Cemetery.

Joseph A. Ritz Sr., a retired Teamsters official and World War II veteran, died Tuesday of complications from a stroke at Franklin Square Hospital Center. He was 86. Mr. Ritz was born and raised in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where he graduated from Hanover High School in 1940. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps and served as a ground crew chief with the 412th Thunderbolt Fighter Squadron, 375th Fighter Group of the 9th Air Force in England and later in Europe. Mr. Ritz was a lifetime member of the Owings Mills Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and helped organize and attend reunions of the 412th Fighter Squadron.

When Maureen Neunan's only child headed off to college halfway across the country, the four-bedroom, four-bathroom Ellicott City house where the two lived suddenly seemed enormous to the 56-year-old divorcee. "I decided this was not where I wanted to be," she said. "I didn't need big or grand anymore. " And so she and her friend, real estate agentr Carol Walters of Long & Foster's Columbia office, paid a visit to the Ritz-Carlton Residences at Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Neunan recalled visiting the unit she bought at first sight.

Two luxury condominium complexes alongside Baltimore's waterfront will have to pay nearly $2.3 million in additional property taxes this year, thanks to new assessed values that acknowledge — four years after the first residents moved in — that the buildings' empty units actually exist. The almost 190 units still owned by the developers of the Ritz-Carlton Residences and Silo Point had been taxed as if they were empty lots, even as residents were paying high-end prices – frequently more than $1 million in the case of the Ritz — to live in other condos in the same buildings.

They're some of the priciest condos in the city, but they're taxed like empty lots. At the Ritz-Carlton Residences along Baltimore's Inner Harbor — where a recent sale topped $1.5 million — the tax bill for most of the condos was $1,309 apiece this year. At Silo Point, an industrial conversion with gourmet kitchens, hardwood floors and sweeping views of the city, the bill for many of the units is $238 each. Even though they were built years ago, and city inspectors declared them ready to live in, they are still valued for tax purposes as though construction never got off the ground.

Joe Graziose and his family have recently moved into their fourth home at the same location — the Ritz-Carlton Residences along Baltimore's Inner Harbor. "We've tested locations on all fronts of the building," he said. "Our last unit overlooked Federal Hill. " It is not that the Grazioses are fickle or hard to please. On the contrary. As senior vice president of RXR Realty, developers of the Ritz-Carlton Residences in Baltimore, as well as one of its investors, Graziose has always opened his and wife Jackie's home to prospective buyers looking for a unit in the upscale complex.

If you've been meaning to take a peek at the Ritz-Carlton Residences at the Inner Harbor, this year's Baltimore Symphony Associates Decorators' Show House is the perfect opportunity. The event, which starts Saturday, not only gets you behind the facade, but it turns the typical show house model on its ear, presenting two residences that allow visitors to see how different designers treat the same space. The two residences share the same floor plan and harbor views, with the only difference being the choices the designers made, resulting in two distinct styles — one skewing modern, the other more traditional.

The condos at the Ritz-Carlton Residences offer "luxurious waterfront living" — with breathtaking views of Baltimore's Inner Harbor and amenities that include marble baths, landscaped terraces and butler's pantries with access for the help. But that's not enough for one resident. An architect has been talking to city officials about permits that might be needed to build a gun range in one of the penthouse-level condos on Key Highway, at the foot of Federal Hill. Inquiries about the gun range were meant to be hush-hush, but word about the unusual request got out quickly.

As spacious as they are, Tom Clancy's three penthouse condos at the Ritz-Carlton Residences in Baltimore proved too small for the best-selling novelist. Now he has six. Clancy bought the additional properties this fall for almost $2.2 million, a fraction of what he paid per square foot just last year, according to state property records. The condos were among those that sold since the developer of the struggling upscale project, located alongside the Inner Harbor, lowered prices over the summer.

The Ritz-Carlton Residences in Baltimore has lowered its asking prices by about 30 percent on 30 of its 166 unsold high-end condos, a spokesman said Wednesday. The Inner Harbor development, completed two years ago, has struggled to find buyers as demand for homes — luxury ones in particular — plummeted. Just 24 of the 190 units have changed hands; about a dozen more are under contract. Greg Harris, a spokesman for RXR Realty, the developer, said new prices on the units range from $499,000 to $2.1 million.