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The appeal that brings million-dollar performances and therefore hundreds of thousands of patrons annually to spend time and money in Downtown Columbia is the result of a strategic planning effort by Howard County and the Howard Hughes Corporation, working with multiple partners, such as Columbia Association. The city center is in the midst of a redevelopment effort designed to enhance life in Downtown Columbia by giving people options to move easily between work, home, school, running errands, eating and drinking, as well as experiencing art and culture.

The Baltimore Metropolitan Council (BMC) hosted the Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Information Exchange Forum on Tuesday, December 4, 2018. This event was the culmination of 18 months of planning and generous donations from MSGIC and KCI Technologies.

The Baltimore Metropolitan Council (BMC) and Baltimore County will host the tenth annual Meet the Primes networking event, which connects small- and minority-owned businesses with prime contract bidders, on Wednesday, October 17. The event will take place from 8 a.m. until noon at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in the Exhibition Hall, located at 2200 York Road in Timonium.

By 2030, all of the Baby Boomers – those born between 1946 and 1964 – will be ages 65 or older. The U.S. Census Bureau points out that they’ll outnumber children for the first time in U.S. history.

The Baltimore Regional Transportation Board (BRTB) welcomes comments through Friday, August 31, on updates to Maximize2040: A Performance-Based Transportation Plan and the 2019-2022 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) for two Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) projects. BRTB proposes amendments for:
• Funding updates to the I-95 Express Toll Lane Northbound Extension project; and
• The addition of a new project, I-95 Port Covington Access Improvements.
The BRTB is scheduled to vote on these amendments on Tuesday, September 25, at 9 a.m.

There is an important segment of jobs – requiring less than a bachelor’s degree – that will grow by 13.4 percent in the next decade in the Baltimore region.

The Baltimore Regional Transportation Board (BRTB) as the metropolitan planning organization (MPO) for the Baltimore region seeks public comments through Monday, June 25 on two transportation-related documents – the draft 2019-2022 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), and the associated Air Quality Conformity Determination of the FY 2019-2022 TIP and amended Maximize2040: A Performance-Based Transportation Plan.

Bike To Work Day in the Baltimore region is postponed until Friday, June 1, because of forecasted severe weather on Friday, May 18. The spirit of Bike to Work Day is to promote bicycling as a safe and healthy commuting option. While many cyclists regularly commute in an array of weather, the threat of flooding and lightning storms, present very real concerns for participants' safety from the Bike to Work Day committee and local public safety agencies.

A report being released today by the Greater Baltimore Committee and Baltimore Metropolitan Council, which looks at demographic and other changes that have occurred in the Baltimore region since 1998, finds that the region’s population has become more diversified, a higher percentage of residents hold college degrees, and the economy has transitioned from industrial manufacturing to one driven by technology, medicine, higher-education and service-based businesses.

The League of American Bicyclists recognized the Baltimore Metropolitan Council (BMC) with a Silver Bicycle Friendly Business (BFB) award, joining more than a thousand businesses across the U.S. that have received the award.