Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Sports Authority joins the list of businesses for Towne Centre Laurel. Retail construction is due to wrap up in Oct. 2014.
National sporting goods chain Sports Authority has joined the list of businesses for Towne Centre Laurel, the planned $130 million redevelopment of the site where Laurel Mall once stood. Greenberg Gibbons, the developer behind the open-air retail and residential plaza, revealed an updated list of tenants along with an estimated construction schedule at Monday night's Laurel Mayor and City Council meeting. Sports Authority will occupy a 33,458 sqft. space, according to Greenberg Gibbons. The complex is also set to include a 49,002 sqft. Harris Teeter supermarket, a 50,507 sqft. Regal Cinemas movie theater, and an upgraded 64,964 sqft. Burlington Coat Factory store. In all, the developer plans to build 400,000 sqft. of retail, dining, and …
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Regal Cinemas, Harris Teeter and Burlington Coat Factory have all been confirmed as tenants, reports the Gazette.
Regal Cinemas and Harris Teeter will join Burlington Coat Factory at the new Towne Centre at Laurel, which is expected to open in May 2014, reports the Gazette. The $200 million development project, which broke ground in August 2012, will have 400,000 square feet of retail space and is expected to bring 1,000 to 1,500 new jobs to the area, city officials told the Gazette. Although only three tenants have signed on to the project, residents and city officials have expressed enthusiasm about the development. According to the Gazette, earlier this month the Laurel City Council said the city would issue up to $15.5 in million tax increment financing (TIF) bonds to help fund infrastructure improvements related to the project. Read the full …
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Authorities said the 23-year-old was found with a variety of law enforcement-style lights and equipment in his vehicle.
A Laurel resident was charged with impersonating an officer Saturday after authorities found extensive law enforcement-type equipment in his vehicle, according to Bowie police. Erick Shawn Cooke, 23, of Laurel was arrested alongside Deonte Monchez Callaham, 21, of Washington, D.C. and Demetrius Charles Callaham, 24, of Washington, D.C. outside of Regal Bowie Cinema (15200 Major Lansdale Blvd.). According to Bowie police, an officer on patrol around 12:05 a.m. noticed the three men "loitering and acting disorderly" next to a vehicle near the side entrance of the theatre. The vehicle, which police later determined belonged to Cooke, had "colored LED flashing lights in the grill and the dashboard area of the vehicle." Police said the officer …
John Floyd II
11:45 pm on Friday, May 17, 2013
I am a 49-year resident of historic Laurel with the marvellous Laurel PD as my next-door neighbours. With LPD's HQ as a "protective bubble" in my immediate neighbourhood (nearly a mile from the Middletowne slums), I have no reason to move. As for the ghetto, how does one go about ridding the 14800-14700 blocks of Section 8 housing, gang-bangers, and the sort of criminally-minded "citizens" whose … more ›