Black-owned business owners received grant funding and two-year licenses to operate storefronts in Harborplace, the city’s famed — and largely empty — waterfront development.

Mr. Trash Wheel, the googly-eyed, solar-powered trash interceptor who sits where the Jones Falls meets the Inner Harbor, has been gobbling garbage for 10 years.

A single-family home in Cedmont and rowhouses in Patterson Place and Fells Point are featured in this week’s real estate roundup.

Two months before his firm finalized the purchase of Harborplace, P. David Bramble spent $14.3 million on a deal with a much lower profile.