Settlement sought in dispute over Westport land eyed for high-speed rail project

A long-simmering legal dispute over vacant waterfront land in Westport could be resolved without a trial, as the developer planning a community there and the operator of proposed high speed rail said Tuesday they hope to reach a settlement. A trial was scheduled to start Tuesday in Baltimore Circuit Court in an eminent domain case that Baltimore Washington Rapid Rail LLC filed in June 2021 against property owners Stonewall Capital and Westport Capital Development.