Envy Apartment

April 06, 1998 | By Larry Carson | Larry Carson,SUN STAFF Dundalk residents who last month rejected a government-aided plan to renovate the Hidden Cove Apartments over fears it would cater to the poor hold out hope that a new buyer will appear and convert the 32-year-old complex into elderly housing or condominiums. But neither is likely, say a variety of county officials and real estate experts , who predict more slow decline for the unprofitable 30- acre waterfront complex in West Inverness , a densely populated community of about 2,000 brick townhouses. The $ 9 million sale price , combined with the multimillion-dollar cost to renovate or demolish the 504-unit, three- story brick complex , makes any purchase or extensive redevelopment problematic without government aid , county officials and real estate experts say. "The numbers won't crunch" for a conventionally financed deal , said county Councilman Louis L. DePazzo, a Dundalk Democrat who supported the plann...

He’s been on the job only about a week but Richard V. Spencer, the new Secretary of the Navy, faces the tough job of determining the fate of an American war hero . Navy Lt. Craig R. Becker stands accused of pushing his drugged and sleeping wife out the seventh-floor window of their Belgian apartment building in late 2015, dashing out her life on the pavement of Mons, a sleepy city in the French-speaking portion of the northern European nation . Becker maintains his innocence, saying the death was a suicide. He accuses the Navy’s Sixth Fleet of abandoning him to Belgian authorities . Becker, once stationed in San Diego and still linked to Naval Special Warfare in Coronado, wants his prosecution transferred to the American military ’s court system — a right almost always afforded in such cases. Adm. Michelle Howard, commander of Naval Forces in Europe and Africa, has not taken jurisdiction, expressing concerns to lawmakers about Navy investigators not being able to use the evidence c...