Urban Discoveries Baltimore

Most of our DS installments are aimed at prospective Baltimoreans of the upper-middle-class variety. Here’s one for all y’all in the service industry. Station North, the city’s designated arts district, is where scores of Baltimore’s artists both present their work and make a living. (The two endeavors rarely coincide.) Soon it may also be where [...]

Pick a noun beginning with the prefix ‘re-’ and someone has applied it to the New East Side Community project. Now East Baltimore Development, Inc. (EBDI) has approved the acquisition of 800 to 900 properties in addition to the land already allocated for the undertaking, which is located near the Johns Hopkins Medical College.
EBDI’s president [...]

Diamonds may be a struggling commercial district’s best friend. Samuelson’s Diamonds Downtown (426 W. Baltimore St.), a Baltimore institution for almost ninety years, has been very busy lately. In addition to relocating and renovating its own store, the family-owned company has invested in several properties on the 400 block of West Baltimore Street, a once-hot [...]

Being the brooding idealist I was in high school, I sneered at the froth and fervor of the democratic process, wielding my somewhat facile argument that people who save up all their concern for one big vote tend to consider themselves, once having voted, off the hook for the next four years. Of course, plenty [...]