When the Sparrows Point steel mill closed, Deborah S. Barkley felt sorry for the laid-off workers — she didn’t want that to happen. But she knew her life would get better. For 20 years, she’s lived ...
Maryland has reached an agreement with the new owner of the former Sparrows Point steelmaking facility to clean up decades worth of industrial pollution and contamination at the sprawling 3,100-acre ...
Laboring to redevelop Sparrows Point, a steelmaking site since the 1800s, workers regularly found such artifacts as handmade tools, hand-painted signs, and wood molds. After developer Tradepoint ...
In 1959 Bethlehem Steel’s Sparrows Point facility, located on the Patapsco River near the mouth of Baltimore Harbor, was the biggest steelmaking facility in the world. With close to 40,000 employees, ...
The old Sparrows Point steel mill property has a new name: Tradepoint Atlantic. The company that bought the former Bethlehem Steel mill in 2014 with plans to redevelop it as an industrial and ...
Nine months into its transformation from abandoned steel mill to modern industrial business park, the 3,100-acre Sparrows Point property in Baltimore, Md., has shed enough of its blighted recent ...
The most visible vestige of Sparrows Point’s steelmaking past will tumble to the ground Wednesday afternoon as workers implode the property’s L Blast Furnace. Workers have been planning for months to ...
WEBVTT OVER THE YEARS, THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF UPS AND DOWNS OF THE -- AT THE OLD BETHLEHEM STEEL MILL, MOSTLY PROMISES OF JOBS THAT NEVER REALLY PANNED OUT. EARLIER TODAY, A NEW PARTNERSHIP WAS ...