Belvedere Square

Table Talk: Dining team getting Maryland Live ready for visitors

2012-05-22 07:30:00

The Maryland Live Casino is getting closer.The Cordish Cos.have announced June 6 as the opening date for its $500 million gaming and entertainment complex. The food and beverage team at Maryland Live has been in place for months, preparing for the...

Belvedere Square's Demi to close, but Crush remains open

2012-05-21 06:07:00

Tae Strain, the executive chef at Crush, is leaving the Belvedere Square restaurant. Saturday is Strain's last day at Crush, which will remain open. But Demi, his separate project on the lower level of Crush, will close after this Saturday's service.�...

Good afternoon, Baltimore: Monday lunchtime lowdown

2012-05-21 09:08:00

ON THE SITE... Man seriously injured in city house fire:�City firefighters responded just before 3 a.m. to the 7100 block of McClean Blvd. in the Hamilton Hills neighborhood. They found the two-story town home engulfed in heavy fire and smoke. Baltimore...

Belvedere Square's Crush here to stay, owner insists

2012-05-10 12:40:00

Patrons of Crush in Belvedere Square have grown concerned about the restaurant's status. Earlier this week, Crush reverted to a BYOB policy. Its liquor shelves are bare. No one should worry, according to Joe Corsi, who identified himself as minority...

Car break-ins near Belvedere Square

2012-04-19 11:41:00

A reader passed on this tip to me the other day, about car break-ins this week along the eastbound lanes of Northern Parkway, near York Road and Belvedere Square: My husband was the most recent victim last night when he returned to his car after dinner...

City economic development chief Brodie to retire

2012-02-23 18:00:00

M.J. "Jay" Brodie, who has headed Baltimore's economic development agency under four mayors and helped shepherd projects such as the Harbor East redevelopment, said Thursday he plans to retire. The Baltimore native and former city housing commissioner is...

Nonprofit transportation group convinces Giant to help it bus seniors to new store

2012-03-20 03:50:00

Aleene Johnson was among a steady stream of seniors, some holding canes and reusable canvass grocery bags, who boarded a shuttle bus to the Rotunda Giant on March 15. Johnson, who lives in the Broadview Apartments on University Parkway, said she wasn't...

Tryko Partners buys 253-unit apartment complex in city

2012-03-06 13:48:00

Tryko Partners LLC, a Brick, N.J.-based private equity real estate group, said Tuesday it purchased the 253-unit Park Raven apartments in Baltimore from Continental Realty Corp. The purchase price was not immediately available. With the acquisition,...

Short shrift for small banks

2012-03-12 03:00:00

If our largest banks are the "one-percenters" of American capitalism, small business is our 99. And, just as our largest corporations are ruling the roost in Washington, so too do they rule in Annapolis. In fact, Maryland's politics have become so...

Michael Edward 'Mick' King

2012-03-10 11:24:00

Michael Edward "Mick" King, a longtime Mount Royal Tavern bartender who in addition to pumping beer and pouring shots was an accomplished artist and sometime musician, died March 3 of a heart attack at the venerable Bolton Hill bar. The Govans resident...

Rotunda task force members have questions for redeveloper

2012-02-21 13:51:00

Seven years have passed since Hekemian & Co. purchased the Rotunda and made grand plans to redevelop it as a mixed-use mall. There would be apartments, additional office space and retail, restaurants and underground parking, and a new, state-of-the-art...

A sense of history

2012-02-21 13:54:00

"History is the greatest narrative," the Rev. Heber Brown III told more than 20 people in the pews Feb. 17 at Pleasant Hope Baptist Church. The church held a Black History Month event that was billed as "a celebration of north Baltimore's black history,"...

Barney Greengrass, the century-old Upper West Side smoked-fish emporium makes only a fleeting appearance in "Extremely Loud," but it was long enough to make us want to make a trip as fast as possible to Greg's Bagels at Belvedere Square for one of the city's best selections of smoked fish, which if

2012-02-01 17:10:19

The charcuterie Plate, served at the Grand Cru, in Belvedere Square.

2011-11-03 00:00:00

The fountain in Belvedere Square gathers melting snow on Saturday.

2011-10-29 00:00:00