County progresses on Yorkway project

Baltimore County officials are almost halfway to their goal of acquiring all the blighted and crime-ridden apartment buildings in the Yorkway corridor of Dundalk that they plan to demolish and transform into new housing or a community park.

Members of the County Council next month will likely approve spending just more than $450,000 on two additional apartment buildings, bringing the total acquired so far to 26 of the 56 sought. The county has to persuade about 13 property owners to sell, said Shirley Murphy, chief of the county?s Bureau of Land Acquisition.