Columbia, Maryland
A Planned Community

Columbia

Columbia, developed by The Rouse Company, is the nation's most successful planned community. What began in 1962 as 14,100 acres of rural land has become a city of more than 97,000 residents, spread over 10 separate villages, with 2,500 businesses, more than 60,000 jobs, 21 million square feet of commercial space and a wide array of social, cultural, educational, entertainment and recreational programs and facilities. Columbia is managed bu the Columbia Association.

Columbia is situated in the thriving Baltimore - Washington corridor and has received international recognition for its innovative planning.

Information for visitors

• The story of Columbia - The Rouse Company
• Columbia Demographics - Howard County Economic Development website
• Guide to Howard County - County attractions and services
• Overview map of Columbia - Showing villages and facilities
• Yahoo-Search-Local - Best way to locate businesses - with maps
• Pictures of Columbia - My own collection

Information for residents

• Columbia, MD News - Courtesy of Topix.net
• Columbia FreeCycle - Recycling of household goods
• ezColumbia - Community information, classifieds and a local services directory
• General Growth Properties - Our New Owner
  • New Development for Town Center
• MyColumbiaGuide.com - The Virtual Village Center for everyone
• The Columbia Association - Parks, pools, activities, cultural and social events
  • Columbia Festival of the Arts - Was June 10-19 this year
• Lakefront Summer Festival Guide - June to September
• The Villages of Columbia - With links to every village association
• The Columbia Flier - Your voice in the community
• The Columbia Village Centers - Guide to businesses in your community
• Connect2MD.com - Maryland's easy Business Search
• Yahoo-Search-Local - Best way to locate businesses - with maps

Visitors to Columbia

The Weather in Columbia, MD

Columbia is in Howard County, a county of contrasts, a successful melding of old and new, urban and rural, where the rolling green hills of the Piedmont meet the rocky fall line of the glaciers. It is home to over 168,000 people, a setting where one of the most modern cities in the world sits side by side with a city older than the republic itself.

We are also surrounded by several historic towns such as Savage, Ellicott City, Elkridge, Lisbon, Annapolis, Frederick, to name a few.

As you can see from the map, Columbia is 20 minutes from Baltimore and about 40 from Washington. Annapolis, Maryland's Capital, is also about 40 minutes away. And if you keep going East, you will reach the Atlantic coast in about 2 hours, home to Ocean City, a vacation resort and Assateague Island, a national Seashore and home of the wild ponies.

Getting to Columbia by air is easy since we are only 20 minutes from the Baltimore Washington International (BWI) airport. Two other major airports are also in the vicinity - Washington's Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) and Washington Dulles International (IAD) are 40 and 50 miles away respectively. For the location of all three airports, view this map.

Networking in Columbia

The networking group ColumbiaMD has been created especially for the residents of Columbia for the exchange of ideas, recommendations, news, etc...

The group is hosted by Yahoo! Groups. To subscribe to the group, just send a blank message to ColumbiaMD-subscribe@yahoogroups.com from the account where you would like to receive group messages. Note that you may subscribe from more than one account.

If you instead would like to link your subscription to a new or existing Yahoo! account (free), you will in addition be able to view the archives and other documents stored on the group website using any browser anywhere - like while visiting a friend's house. Do this by clicking on the button below.

ColumbiaMD Yahoo! Group

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