Effort to block Harborplace redevelopment misses deadline to make November ballot

The group seeking to block a nearly $1 billion plan to redevelop Harborplace and Baltimore’s waterfront failed to meet a Monday deadline to qualify their initiative for November’s ballot. Led by attorney and four-time candidate for citywide office Thiru Vignarajah, the petition drive got a late start in June and fell short of the 10,000 signatures it needed to qualify for the November ballot, according to Abigail Goldman, deputy director for the Baltimore City Board of Elections.