NEWS
Jacques Kelly | September 6, 2013
It didn't take long to see why a retired city public schools teacher is hailed by her neighbors as Miss Auchentoroly or, to others, the Clean Up Lady. Barbara Anderson-Dandy is one of those Baltimore community dynamos who say they work behind the scenes - and do. It's just that they never stop working, and along the way have established a reservoir of good will. She says she loves the challenge of stewarding a highly visible city neighborhood perched at the edge of Druid Hill Park.
NEWS
By Steve Kilar, The Baltimore Sun | December 11, 2011
The hulking white duplex at 2108-2110 Mount Royal Terrace - a vacant eyesore for 20 years - is a financial and emotional drain on neighbors, who maintain a five-block stretch of historic homes that overlooks the Jones Falls Expressway and acts as the eastern border of Reservoir Hill. But for two nights this past weekend, residents gathered on the sidewalk in front of the empty house, watching it and imagining what it would be like if someone lived there. The occasion was an exhibit by two students at the nearby Maryland Institute College of Art, who used the 120-year-old home as a movie screen, with videos projected onto the plywood that covers the first-floor windows.
NEWS
By Nicole Fuller, The Baltimore Sun | November 13, 2011
Talk to some of the old-timers along Annapolis' historic Clay Street, and they'll say the neighborhood has seen its ups and downs: Once a vibrant African-American enclave, replete with black-owned businesses, the neighborhood struggled in the wake of civil rights-era rioting and the crack epidemic. The area is changing again, with a $24 million revitalization of the city's two oldest public-housing complexes, Obery Court and College Creek Terrace. The structures are being torn down and rebuilt with the help of a private developer.
NEWS
By Larry Carson | larry.carson@baltsun.com | December 27, 2009
Howard County housing officials are planning a major overhaul of two Ellicott City public housing complexes and the nearby Roger Carter Recreation Center as plans to redevelop a third, Guilford Gardens, move closer to fruition. Hilltop Housing, the county's oldest public housing complex, just off the Main Street historic area of the county seat, would be transformed into a new mixed-income community able to support itself financially, according to county housing director Stacy L. Spann.
NEWS
By Nicole Fuller and Nicole Fuller,nicole.fuller@baltsun.com | September 3, 2009
Residents of an aging Annapolis public housing community that is in the midst of a controversial redevelopment project said Wednesday that they have been without utilities repeatedly for the last two weeks. About two dozen residents of College Creek Terrace, a 70-year-old development in downtown Annapolis that is being redeveloped - along with nearby Obery Court - into a publicly funded and privately managed complex, aired their complaints to housing officials during a tense meeting in an outdoor courtyard.
BUSINESS
By Andrea F. Siegel and Andrea F. Siegel,Sun reporter | March 23, 2008
The Fells Point setting is historic, but the four-level townhouse is sleek urban contemporary, down to the floating steel staircase and Brazilian hardwood floors. Highlighting the expansive space are floor-to-ceiling windows and terraces that provide bird's-eye views of Baltimore. The home, one of six Merchant's Row townhouses, was customized for lawyer Jennifer Bragg and her husband, physician Jonathan Jarrow. They bought it new just over two years ago. "What drew us to buy it was unparalleled space," said Bragg.