Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Developers spoke about community benefits and took questions on traffic, demolition and the mix of tenants at a community input meeting Monday night.
Owings Mills resident David Ginsburg says he suffers from “consumer frustration.” If he wants to go shopping, he has to leave the immediate area. After hearing questions and complaints about the traffic that Foundry Row may bring to the Reisterstown Road corridor, Ginsburg stood up to make some comments that were met with enthusiastic applause. “As far as I’m concerned, Reisterstown Road is screwed,” he said, “and if it’s gonna be screwed, I might as well have a place to shop while I’m sitting in traffic.” Ginsburg and residents of Owings Mills and the surrounding areas attended a community input meeting on the project proposed for the vacant Solo Cup plant on Reisterstown Road on Monday night at New Town High School. It was the second …
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Community leaders in Owings Mills and Reisterstown support the Board of Election’s decision to nix the possibility of bringing two zoning decisions to referendum.
An effort two bring two Baltimore County zoning decision to referendum on the 2014 ballot has been stopped, for now. While they don’t think the battle is over, Owings Mills and Reisterstown officials think the Baltimore County Board of Elections made the right decision when it deemed the petitions legally deficient on Tuesday. “I think most of the people at ROG were concerned, as a lot of people were, with the nature of the name collecting,” said George Harman, president of the Reisterstown-Owings Mills-Glyndon Coordinating Council (ROG). “We thought that the process whereby people may not have been told the truth about what they were seeing brought into question the whole process.” Two groups backed by developers David S. Brown …
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
A decision released Tuesday said the opponents of zoning issues in two council districts had enough signatures but ruled the petitions were legally deficient.
UPDATED (9:23 p.m.)—The Baltimore County Board of Elections ruled that petitions to referendum zoning decisions in two council districts will not be placed on the 2014 ballot. Baltimore County Elections Director Katie Brown wrote in a decision issued Tuesday afternoon that while opponents had collected the required number of signatures, the petitions were legally deficient. Andrew Bailey, an attorney for the county Board of Elections, reviewed five challenges to the petition filed by attorneys representing Greenberg Gibbons, the developer of the proposed Foundry Row project on the grounds of the old Solo Cup factory. "I believe that the form of the petition, as circulated to potential signers, was insufficient to alert them to what exactly…
Friday, October 12, 2012
Group needs nearly 29,000 verified signatures of registered county voters to place zoning issues in the 2nd and 6th Council Districts on the 2014 ballot.
UPDATED (9:03 p.m.)—A developer-backed group that hopes to force two zoning bills to the 2014 ballot has delivered the first installment of signatures to the Baltimore County Board of Elections. The Committee for Zoning Integrity announced in a statement Friday that it submitted 34,000 signatures for the petition on the 6th district zoning issues and another 36,662 on the 2nd Council District zoning bill to the board of elections, according to an email Friday night from Stuart Kaplow, attorney for the group. By law, the group needs to collect 28,826 signatures of registered Baltimore County voters for each bill within 45 days of the county executive signing the bills. The group can extend the deadline by 30 days if it submits at least 9,…
Friday, September 7, 2012
Opponents of a proposed retail center at the vacant Solo Cup plant in Owings Mills say they plan to bring the issue to referendum. What do you think?
When the Baltimore County Council voted to rezone the Solo Cup plant in Owings Mills for retail last week, the battle did not end, at least for the Say No To Solo Coaltion. Although much of the community rejoiced in the vote, the leader of the coalition, Shirley Supik, said she plans to bring the issue to referendum. Developer Greenberg Gibbons is proposing a $140 million center that would be anchored by a Wegmans, include several national retailers and 40,000 square feet of office space. Supik's group, and other opponents, claim the development would tie up traffic at an already burdened intersection and derail plans to redevelop the Owings Mills mall. Do you think Foundry Row should go to referendum? Vote in the poll and tell us in the …
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
The Baltimore County Council voted to rezone the vacant Solo Cup plant in Owings Mills from manufacturing to retail, a move that helps pave the way for Wegmans-anchored center Foundry Row.
The Baltimore County Council voted to rezone the Solo Cup plant in Owings Mills from manufacturing to retail. The vote helps pave the way for Foundry Row, a Wegmans-anchored retail and office center that was dependent on the rezoning to be built at the vacant plant on Reisterstown Road. The vote comes after months of debate between developers, special interest and community groups and council members. Developer Greenberg Gibbons plans to build a $140 million center that would be anchored by Wegmans, and house a national fitness center, a national sporting goods retailer, a national shoe retailer and 40,000 square feet of office space. CEO Brian Gibbons hopes to open the center, called Foundry Row, by spring 2015. "What the council did was…
Thursday, August 23, 2012
The community group opposing the proposed Foundry Row development will not name its backers. Others say a rival developer is helping to support the Say No To Solo Coalition.
On a hot July day, three teenagers distributed free bottled water at the intersection of Owings Mills Boulevard and Reisterstown Road. But these were not ordinary bottled waters. They were political statements. The labels featured Baltimore County Councilwoman Vicki Almond’s phone number, the words ‘What’s the Rush? Vote No on Foundry Row!’ and the website address for the Say No To Solo Coalition. As they distributed the bottled water, the teens collected signatures for the coalition opposing Foundry Row, the Wegmans-anchored development proposed for the vacant Solo Cup plant on Reisterstown Road. The teens said the Say No To Solo Coalition was paying them for their efforts. But they did not know who had paid for their supply of nearly 10,…
Monday, August 13, 2012
Leaders of the Say No to Solo Coalition delivered boxes of petitions signed by Baltimore County residents Monday.
Activists fighting the proposed Foundry Row development in Owings Mills delivered petitions signed by more than 7,000 Baltimore County residents to the Baltimore County Council Monday afternoon. Officials from Say No To Solo brought a box for each council member that contained copies of approximately 7,100 signatures of Baltimore County residents who are opposed to Foundry Row, the Wegmans-anchored development Greenberg Gibbons hopes to build at the Solo Cup site on Reisterstown Road. County Council chairwoman Vicki Almond will receive the original petitions, and the other council members will receive copies. “Vicki Almond kept saying right from the beginning there is no opposition,” said Shirley Supik, leader of the Say No to Solo …
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7:02 pm on Wednesday, February 13, 2013
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