Went to a date at OLAR, they closed the kitchen early. Never gone back.

Yes to free parking. Could then go to Dooby’s, Mt Vernon Marketplace, Baby on Fire, or plenty of other spots in Mt Vernon to eat.

Half day.

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Find a place on the Hopkins shuttle route.

Live in any one of the neighborhoods between Hopkins and the water. I don't know what 929 is, guessing that's a building. But I live in Butchers Hill which is walking distance and plenty of Hopkins students and workers live here and around here.

I lived in 929 my first year as a PhD student. It’s fine but there is nothing, I mean nothing, to do around there. Also my window used to blow open in the middle of the night and they refused to acknowledge this needed to be fixed. Living there or one of the other close buildings seems worth it for like residents or other people needing to be in the hospital at crazy hours but for just classes and maybe some study groups? IMO not worth it.

If you want to be able to walk to campus, upper fells is nice and will put you closer to things to do. There is a Hopkins shuttle that will drop you off that runs after 6pm if you’re feeling uncomfortable. If you don’t care about walking, living on the shuttle route that goes between the hospital and the undergrad campus (either in Mt Vernon or Hampden) is good too, though I stuck with the various SE neighborhoods (Patterson Park, upper fells, Canton).

Any free parking nearby?

Adding to my list thanks! Is it a half day trip?

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It’s more NIMBYism protects the property values of existing homeowners (or they think it does) at the expense of both existing renters and potential new renters/homeowners.

NIMBYism usually improves or protects quality of life for existing residents or property owners, generally at the expense of potential new residents.

The Peabody Library is take-your-breath-away beautiful. Don’t look up pictures ahead of time.

Of Love and Regret is a great suggestion, will throw in Gunther for a cool spot. Annabell Lee provides a more quiet atmosphere but very lovely.

Or turn those into community gardens.

Uh yes, unlike Reaganomics building housing does indeed reduce rents and homelessness.

Give it time. The new developments will weather and age and will after decades become beloved assets to the community, to be protected against all costs from there encroaching space-pods and floating houses that’ll be built.

Awww, I bet you also claim trickle down economics actually works.

Oh lookee here, a left-NIMBY out in the wild.

What happens is that people who can pay for new “luxury” housing can go live there instead of fighting with low-income residents over pre-existing housing. Simple supply and demand.

But what can I say, we live in a fucked up country where most people think housing gets more expensive the more there is.

LOL. Do you think they'll be building anything resembling or including one iota of affordable housing? No way.

Want to just provide some perspective from a 3rd party who has no emotional tie to this neighborhood or company, as things can get a bit bogged down in hurt feelings when change comes to one's community:

I know it's disappointing that a community asset will potentially be taken away, but when you establish that asset as A LOAN TO THE COMMUNITY from the beginning you are just setting yourself up for that disappointment eventually. Yes, it's UA's land, and you can certainly ask nicely for them to donate it out of the good of their hearts, but you cannot get angry when they don't do that. To get angry at UA for doing that is being just as bad as a neighbor as you think they are being for demanding they be charitable when they have no obligation to do so. Also, as the petition states: "There are multiple benefits available to Under Armour, and we would like to have an opportunity to continue to shape the future of this space together," but I really don't think that's the case. UA is moving to Port Covington in the next 1-2 years, so what happens to a small community garden a mile away from their campus is no concern for a Fortune 1,000 company.

I don't think anyone here is trying to force Under Armor to do anything, or arguing that they would be able to do so if they tried - no one is talking about getting the city involved. UA is free to do just about whatever they please with their property, this just seems to be an earnest appeal to them to not sell it for development. It sounds like it's a nice thing for the community and I hope that they're able to retain it in some form.

Smells more like a quality of life thing.

Wish UA would sell off some of their surface parking lots first.

I would love to see this keep being a garden but this is prime real estate and in todays market it’s going to go for top dollar and the fact it’s owned by a publicly traded company it’s as good as gone. I hope I’m wrong because I really hate the new home builds that are going in. They suck any kind of charm out of the block let alone neighborhood. God speed.

Yes but asking nicely and receiving it thankfully, or going about it professionally and just asking for a good sale price and buying it outright or thru a community outreach program instead of coming out the gate swinging confrontationally and demanding something for nothing like you are owed this doesn't scratch that narcissistic itch or make yourself look like a martyr in this day and age of social media or the whole "Fuck you Pay me" mentality Baltimoreans tend to have.

Has anyone contacted under armor? Has there been any effort to put together a bid with sponsorship backing? Or is this just another half assed knee jerk reaction to finding out it's getting sold thru the grapevine?

Don't get me wrong the city has 19,000 properties, sometimes whole city BLOCKS of abandoned fire hazards, trash piles and late 1800's/ early 1900's dilapidated and unrepairable commercial properties that would better serve the community as bulldozed and flattened pieces of public use property but the city would rather cry about "food deserts" and firefighters dying constantly trying to keep the city from burning to the ground, or completely ignored the fact that the few places people are getting away with doing these gardens are basically just where squatting on one of these delinquent properties to grow some kind of food is the only way some people had survived in these wastelands, by pulling themselves out of the blight just to have big business or city hall come along and snatch it away.

Maybe r/Baltimorecitydot could enlighten us on what efforts are being made to control the growth of current blight and reduction of food deserts in the city? Because Locus Point is just one of a handful of gardens in the city that are working and have been for 20 years, one of the FEW positive forces in this city yet completely ignored by city hall.

How about this policy: there are a lot of places where the city could come in and bulldoze out half a city block where there's constant trash, shootings and drug activity. Write a law that simply states in areas of high level blight, crime and especially abando fires (which threaten the lives of everyone in the neighborhood including the firefighters who have to put these things out over and over) any properties not maintained, deemed unrepairable, etc city hall can designate it a "high priority zone" for redevelopment. Condemn and foreclose, take ownership by the city like many already are, and bulldoze the whole thing down to level ground. Offer the site for sale to commercial development with a 10 year tax free incentive to build there as the two main problems holding back companies from doing this on their own are the expense of the teardowns and the ridiculous mentality of city hall where they salivate over "getting something for themselves out of it or it ain't happening". Give it a 2 year maximum period on the market and if nobody bites, it's made into a field with a fence around it and a community board set up to start a garden. Some other ideas, convert a rowhome or building next to this plot to a police substation/community center where basic supplies for emergencies can be stored, a large meeting room for public use like meetings, and so on.

There's some pros and cons I'm skipping over. Obviously. But it's obvious in this city the only way forward is to help ourselves or leave. And I'm not seeing very many ideas that end well. The few things that do work against the blight in the city that don't involve complete gentrification are completely ignored by city hall and if it's not on social media or the news it's ignored.

Got it. Thanks for the additional info.