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Downtown Baltimore's West Side And The Light Rail Double Stabbing
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On Wednesday there was a double stabbing that took place on Howard street near the light rail stop according to WJZ TV. You can view the attack here. If you go to the 35 second point in the video you can clearly see the luxury Centerpoint apartment complex in the background. So the attack just did not happen on Howard street, it took place in front of one of the showpieces of the so-called West Side redevelopment in the middle of the day. Since the 1990's we have been told by those in power that the west side of downtown was on the verge of a renaissance. Favored developers were sold city owned property at discounted rates and a few tall buildings sprang up while most of the property stood vacant. Speculators flocked in because of the hype and most of the smaller buildings are in worse shape than they were in the 1990's. The area has been highly touted in many publications yet on the ground on most blocks little has changed. In fact it can be downright dreamlike to walk from one block that is falling apart to the next that has some out of place new apartment building on it. Building a few new buildings, renaming an area, and creating mass speculation does not cure urban ills as the video shows. Baltimore jumps ahead of itself a lot. Those in charge should have tried to fill up the small storefronts and houses with people who could afford them before they went out and built large luxury apartment buildings. These apartment buildings have become fortresses in the middle of troubled blocks. A fortress may be pretty on the outside when viewed from a certain angle but it solves no problem and creates no renaissance. |
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Adam Meister's scribe spreads his innate enthusiasm for all things Baltimore--and, in particular, the political inner workings of his beloved hometown.
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