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Under Armour Planned a 4-Million-Square-Foot Campus on Baltimore's Waterfront in 2021. By December 2025, Its Founder Had Walked Away From Developing the Site at All -- After Coming Back to Run a Company Whose Profits Had Just Fallen 96%.
Under Armour's founding and its move to Baltimore's Inner Harbor are already part of this site's story of the city's reclaimed waterfront. What happened after is a separate, harder story: a 4-million-square-foot headquarters vision shrunk to a single building, a founder's return as CEO, a 96% profit collapse, and a formal exit from the site's future development entirely.
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Two People Own 37 Blocks of Downtown Fort Worth. In 2022, the City Manager Recused Himself Over Their Private Jet. In 2025, They Hired Him.
Two people privately own the 37-block core of downtown Fort Worth, with no shareholders, no disclosure requirement, and no board they don...
Juicero Cost $400 and Lost to a Human Hand. WeWork's Founder Walked Away With $1.7 Billion Anyway -- and Got Funded Again.
Theranos, WeWork, and Juicero collapsed on the same pattern: a claim that didn't survive contact with reality. What actually explains you...
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