Today the Baltimore Sun weighed in on the Market House, stating that the proposed lease with Gone to Market was “a good plan that had too many critics.” … we hope that the new plan will not be subjected to the immense second-guessing that has plagued both the Gone to Market proposal and prior Market [...]
In the following video I explain the financials, the City’s proposed capital investment, and why we need to do it now.
There has been a lot of debate recently about the City’s responsibility is to ensure a successful Market House for the public. (I laid out my overall views in Sunday’s guest column in the Capital). What has been noticeably absent from the debate so far, however, has been the financial numbers. The numbers are the [...]
Mayor Cohen continues to make the case about why the Market House lease with Gone to Market LLC, a Baltimore-based developer of markets, makes economic sense. In an op/ed piece in The Capital on Sunday, the Mayor argues that the financial terms in the lease create the “incentive” for Gone to Market “to build up [...]