Tales Of Two Cities

Last night the County Council voted unanimously to approve CB 29 , the so called village center redevelopment legislation. This bill and its...

I never really got Twitter but at least I can say I gave it a shot. Some people sign up and then never do anything with it. That wasn’t me....

I got a new laptop today. It was time. My old Toshiba Tecra was getting pretty hinky. Already I had performed surgery on it when the power b...

It’s been a few months since I last asked that question so I thought it was about time to check in on you again. I like to share what I kno...

According to this story by Ylan Q Mui in The Washington Post today, men’s underwear purchases may be yet another barometer of the economi...

This past Friday I played golf with three of my buddies. The four of us share the common experience of having grown up in Columbia. All fou...

Many moons ago, when The Rouse Company assigned me their mall in Tampa , one of my charges was to manage a parking issue. The mall was loca...

Not much time for the blog today. I spent my morning at Ellicott Mills Middle School for Peanuts sixth grade orientation. That was a little...

For Sale. Historic Manor house, circa 1738 on 82 acres in Elkridge, MD. Comes complete with irascible neighbors. According to this story b...

According to a report in the Howard / Arundel Report this week, Harris Teeter has officially signed the lease for a new grocery store in T...

According to this story by Jamie Smith Hopkins in The Sun today, Baltimore area home prices are down 9% but according to this story by Di...

This morning I listened in on a “Community Conference Call” hosted by Mike Davis, Lin Eagan, Phil Engelke, David Yungman and Sharon Lee Voge...

Regular readers of Tales of Two Cities well know that I love a good cup of coffee . Over the years I’ve written posts about Bean Hollow , L...

First there’s this news that an 87 year old man, Earl Lafayette Wilder has been charged with the murder of 91 year old James W. Brown at th...

Back in 1990, when HRD finally got around to developing Columbia’s final village, I called River Hill the village that ate Clarksville. Toda...

As I was leaving the main public parking lot in Ellicott City I noticed this unusual trash can. A closer inspection revealed that it had tw...

The culinary travails of Jordan Naftel seem to have started a cascade of restaurant news this week. Yesterday it was the news of the possi...

If you are trying to sell a house right now you can take some comfort in this information from the website Housing Predictor . Neither the ...

Or perhaps I should say “proposed” restaurant. About a year ago, Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) completed construction of the “sh...

According to this story by Ilaina Jonas in Reuters today, General Growth Properties cleared the last major hurdle to its reorganization a...