By Adam Pagnucco. “You kill my dog, I kill your cat.” So wrote former Baltimore Sun reporter Mike Dresser fifteen years ago. Dresser was writing about state legislators killing each…
Development
Is Viva White Oak Ready to Launch? Part Four
By Adam Pagnucco. Part One told a brief history of the Viva White Oak project. Part Two discussed the nature of Tax Increment Financing (TIF), which is being proposed to…
By Adam Pagnucco. Part One told a brief history of the Viva White Oak project. Part Two discussed the nature of Tax Increment Financing (TIF), which is being proposed to…
Is Viva White Oak Ready to Launch? Part Two
By Adam Pagnucco. Part One told a brief history of the Viva White Oak project. Today, let’s examine a crucial supportive element requested by County Executive Marc Elrich: a Tax…
Is Viva White Oak Ready to Launch? Part One
By Adam Pagnucco. Recently, County Executive Marc Elrich announced that he was asking the county council to establish a Tax Increment Financing (TIF) mechanism to support the implementation of the…
By Adam Pagnucco. On Tuesday, the county council is due to vote on a bill providing 20-year tax breaks to some office-to-residential conversion projects. The bill is part of the…
Landmarks of MoCo: Very Important Events
By Adam Pagnucco. In Part One, I summarized how I asked my sources to help me construct a list of important events in county history since the 1960s. Part Two…
Landmarks of MoCo: Honorable Mention
By Adam Pagnucco. In the introduction, I explained the methodology my panel of historians and I used to compile a list of the most important events in MoCo history since…
Crossroads, Part Five
By Adam Pagnucco. In Parts One and Two, my real estate sources commented on how the new rent control law would affect new construction. In Parts Three and Four, they…
Crossroads, Part Four
By Adam Pagnucco. In Parts One and Two, my real estate sources commented on the impact of the county’s new rent control law on new construction. In Part Three, they…