Judge to Weigh Resolution of Long Dispute Over Belward Farm

A Montgomery County Judge will preside over a summary judgment hearing in a dispute regarding how land can be used that was sold to Johns Hopkins at a fraction of its value.

Judge to Weigh Resolution of Long Dispute Over Belward Farm

A Montgomery County Judge will preside over a summary judgment hearing in a dispute regarding how land can be used that was sold to Johns Hopkins at a fraction of its value.

The longstanding dispute over the future development of Belward Farm could come to a close as early as Friday. Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Ronald B. Rubin will preside over the summary judgment hearing in a lawsuit brought by the successors of Belward Farm against Johns Hopkins University. The family's lawsuit — led by Tim Newell, the nephew of former Belward owner Elizabeth Beall Banks — seeks to prevent the university from building a 4.7 million-square-foot commercial science park on the property. Newell and others contend that when his aunt sold 108-acre Belward Farm to Hopkins in 1989 for $5 million, which was far less than the estimated $50 million market value of the property, the university agreed to build a low-rise, …

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Donna Baron (Scale-it-back.com)

8:51 am on Thursday, October 25, 2012

For additional information on the Belward Farm / Johns Hopkins debacle, please see my blog, Johns Hopkins, Seriously, Are You Freaking Kidding Me? at http://northpotomac.patch.com/blog_posts/johns-hopkins-seriously-are-you-freaking-kidding-me. All the news and legal documents can be found at www.scale-it-back.com   more ›