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After years of being considered a food desert, Howard Park now has a major grocery store. Whatever your perceived notions of what a ShopRite might look like, put that aside and visit this one. It’s nice. Just browsing the aisles, I notice a gourmet-shop array of olive oils.

Harwood doesn’t need to pretend it’s something or somewhere else.  It’s fine where it is.  There are all sorts of reasons to live or invest in this neighborhood.

Every neighborhood in Baltimore reminds me of somewhere else I’ve lived.  Parts of Loch Raven Boulevard remind me of Elysian Fields in New Orleans.  Wyman...

This is not the kind of post I wanted to write.  I would have preferred writing about neighborhoods, businesses, and activities that, in some way,...

Station North is evolving.  It didn’t start last year, or even the year before.  It started with baby steps, picking up speed slowly.  It didn’t receive...

The snow stopped.  Next came the sound of people shoveling after snowplows have barricaded their cars behind dirty-white levees.  The other sounds go something like...

Imaginative Rehabs Design Let’s face it.  Most rehabbers are motivated by profit.  And that’s okay, but there is no excuse for slapdash workmanship, builder-grade everything,...

There are lots of people in Baltimore who rehab houses for a living. Some do spectacular work, while others . . . not so much. Some believe...

What do you know about Hampden? Hampden is a somewhat bifurcated neighborhood. On one side of Falls Road you have 36th Street, also known as The...