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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Report: Seawall Sells First Remington Rehab Home

The developer has focused on providing solid, affordable housing options for teachers.

Seawall Development Corporation has sold its first rehabbed home as part of its Miller’s Square rehab projects in Remington, according to the Baltimore Messenger. The newspaper reported the home, at 307 Lorraine Ave., has been sold to Sean Flanigan, a 36-year-old single father, and that renovations should be complete on the home by Christmas time.     In March, Donald Manekin, of Seawall, told Patch that rehabbing homes near the companies Miller’s Court rehabilitation project was a logical next step for the company. "We have an opportunity to create a community of homes, and not a one-off house," Manekin said at the time. The developer is rehabbing several homes in the North Baltimore neighborhood, including multiple homes on one block …

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Rehabbing Homes Logical Step for Seawall, Seawall Selected to Rehab Remington Homes, Miller's Court, and 2 more ›

Rusty Chompers

1:50 pm on Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Perhaps Seawall could take over the stalled 25th St. Station development.   more ›

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Local Leaders Oppose Teacher Pension Shift

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake appeared with a bi-partisan group of executives from Maryland jurisdictions who express displeasure with a proposed pension shift.

Leaders of counties  from around Maryland said a plan to shift part of the cost of teacher pensions from the state would have serious consequences for the budgets of local governments. Nearly two dozen leaders from counties around the state, all members of the Maryland Association of Counties, met in Annapolis to show their opposition to Gov. Martin O'Malley's plan to shift $240 million in teacher pension costs to local governments. Howard County Executive Ken Ulman, the immediate past president of the association, said counties like his have already been hit with severe cuts in state aide over the last three years. "We gave at the office," said Ulman, a Democrat, adding that this issue affects every county in the state. "This puts a …

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Baltimore County Biggest Teacher Pension Loser (in Towson Patch)

Deneen Morgan-Burley

5:38 pm on Tuesday, February 21, 2012

No wonder the teacher retention rate in our schools is desperately low. Our officials continue to treat our educators as less than human. They are already on the lowest pay scale as it is. Now, must they also suffer and live in poverty in their old age? I am a former school teacher. I was cheated out of my pension, for which I am still fighting for after 10 years, and just dismissed. It was one …   more ›

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