March 15-- Mar. 15--The Falcon ethane pipeline project has entered the construction phase. About 350 contractors and employees of Shell Pipeline Co. are at work on the 97-mile Falcon Pipeline, which will feed ethane to Shell Chemicals' cracker plant in Potter Township. The pipeline, which will consist of two legs, will transport up to 107,000 barrels of ethane per day to the cracker plant once ... Read More

March 14--A legal fight delayed PennDOT’s repaving of U.S. 202 down Markley Street in Norristown for two years. Nonunion contractors say their recent court victory signals the waning power of union leaders and a new era in construction growth. One big shift came with last month’s indictment of union leader John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty, which could remove labor’s most politically powerful ... Read More

March 05-- Mar. 5--Maryland and CSX Transportation have submitted another application for federal money to heighten the Howard Street Tunnel in Baltimore so it can fit shipping containers stacked two-high on freight trains -- a project long sought by the port of Baltimore, officials announced Monday. The cost of heightening the tunnel and 22 bridges between Baltimore and Philadelphia, ... Read More

Feb. 15--Gov. Ralph Northam announced on Friday that the state would award the $3.3 billion contract to design and build an expansion to the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel by 2025 to Hampton Roads Connector Partners. In a news release, the governor's office called the project the largest construction project the Virginia Department of Transportation has ever undertaken. "This project supports and ... Read More

OXON HILL, Md. — Gov. Larry Hogan has abandoned talks to persuade the Washington Redskins to build its next stadium on a Maryland site currently owned by the federal government. Spokeswoman Amelia Chasse told news outlets Tuesday that Hogan will proceed with acquiring state control of the 300-acre tract near MGM National Harbor. In December, Hogan acknowledged negotiating a nonbinding land ... Read More

Feb. 12--A new bridge over the Chesapeake Bay could begin on the Western Shore anywhere between Harford County and St. Mary's County, according to maps of potential new bridges created by the Maryland Transportation Authority and the Federal Highway Administration. The maps, part of the Chesapeake Bay Crossing Study, show options for bridge sites spanning either side of the Chesapeake Bay. On ... Read More

Feb. 12--Johns Hopkins University now plans to make over a 1930s-era hospital building on the edge of its Homewood campus that was originally established by Congress to care for sick and disabled seamen for academic purposes. The building, originally the 290-bed Baltimore Marine Hospital, has served many public, private, university purposes over the decades. It was marked for demolition at one ... Read More

Sherman Ragland, CCIM, Dean of the Realinvestors®️ Academy and leading real estate strategist believes that Amazon will soon cancel the planned move to New York City in favor of moving 25,000 jobs to Baltimore. In November, Amazon announced that it would award two cities (Crystal City, VA and New York) with 25,000 jobs (each) and $5.0 Billion in capital investment as a part of it's highly ... Read More

Location: Marshall Street, between 10th and 11th Streets, adjacent to Children's Pavilion Cost: Estimated $350 million-plus Size: 500,000 square feet; 16 stories above ground including four levels of shell space for future growth; four levels of parking below ground Beds: 86 inpatient beds, 6 observation beds; ability to expand to 120 or more beds in the future Construction start: spring 2019 ... Read More

Pittsburgh's beleaguered water authority will spend $50 million to replace lead service lines, give filters to low-income residents and take other steps to address the city's lead crisis under a settlement approved Thursday by state utility regulators. It comes a week after the Pennsylvania attorney general's office filed criminal charges against the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority, ... Read More