Tales Of Two Cities

I am traveling with my daughter to Magnolia Springs , Alabama for the Thanksgiving holiday. Chances are that the average reader of this blo...

Ollie’s Bargain Outlet will soon open a new store in the Columbia East Marketplace. The eclectic discount retailer has signed a lease for 3...

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This past Monday I put up this post about a shooting in Savage. Over the following days I kept scanning the newspapers for the story thinki...

As I was perusing the pages of the Howard section of The Sun this morning, I noticed a liquor board hearing for a “900 square foot tavern l...

The seemingly never ending saga of WCI ’s proposed luxury condominium tower in Town Center continues. Despite the facts that the sales cente...

The folks over at Columbia 2.0 have put up a nice little video tour of GGP ’s proposed plans for Symphony Woods and Merriweather Post Pavil...

2007 2008 What a difference a year makes! Last December, in The Washington Post Marc Fisher wrote two columns about our poinsettia tree. ...

As I was cruising down Route 1 this afternoon I noticed a good deal of police activity around the Royal Farms store in Columbia Junction. A...

I’ve been going to the same dry cleaner every week for years. Yang Soo Kim runs Hans Dry Cleaners and Tailors on Oakland Mills Road just of...

Back in the day when I was working as a marketing director for The Rouse Company , tradition held that Santa would arrive for the holiday se...

My friend Dave Forrester used to say that there are more trees in Howard County now than there were before Columbia came along. Dave is a fo...

Feet First isn’t the only local retailer placing a big bet on the continued growth and prosperity of Howard County. Eric Stein, the owner ...

It’s that time of year again, the time when otherwise rational people begin turning their homes into tacky light shows. Don’t get me wrong, ...

At yesterday’s close of the markets, General Growth Properties stock closed at $0.49 per share. In trading this morning it was down another...

The poinsettia tree is going back up in the center court of The Mall in Columbia. After it’s banishment into the cold as part of the Symph...

So how come this federal holiday is not part of a three day weekend? It’s because the origins of the holiday go back to the 11th hour of th...

According to this article by Alby Gallun in yesterdays Chicago Real Estate Daily , General Growth Properties is now openly suggesting for ...

I attended a funeral last Saturday. It was for James Binckley, the father of my buddy Jim Binckely. The funeral was held at Christ Church “...

My colleague Tom Whelan sent me this video clip today. It is from a security camera mounted in front of a friend’s brothers’ real estate of...