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BackJurden t1_jc2904f wrote

Board games for sale/trade. Everything is OBO. Located in 21201.

1861: Railways of the Russian Empire & 1867: Railways of Canada (opened but unplayed) - $60

1960: The Making of the President (GMT first edition) - $45

Architects of the West Kingdom - $30

Axis & Allies 1941 - $7

Axis & Allies Pacific 1940 - $35

Azul: Summer Pavilion w/ Glazed Pavilion - $30

Black Friday - $40

Blume - $30

Carthage - $12

ClipCut Parks (unplayed) - $10

Clockwork Wars w/ Academy & Volcano tiles, Gulag & Dynamo Bonus tiles, and Sentience (opened but unplayed) - $90

Container: 10th Anniversary Jumbo Edition! - $180

Cuzco - $20

Dice Forge - $25

Dinosaur Island X-treme Edition - $25

Dinosaur Island: Totally Liquid w/ unbuilt BT insert - $25

Dogs - $2 or free with another purchase/trade

Fleet - $12

Fog of Love w/ It Will Never Last, Paranormal Romance, and Trouble with the In-Laws (all in base box) - $12

Go 9x9 board w/ white and black stones - $5 or free with another purchase/trade

La Granja: No Siesta (played twice) - $5 or free with another purchase/trade

Imperial (box has some wear from age) - $35

The Isle of Cats - $30

Kraftwagen - $5

Lanterns Dice: Lights in the Sky (includes a promo pad; played once) - $10

Lucidity: Six-Sided Nightmares - $5

The Manhattan Project 2: Minutes to Midnight - $25

Marvel United w/ Doctor Strange (NIS) - $10

Mission: Red Planet 2nd Edition - $20

Monopoly: Franklin Mint Collector's Edition (has some sun fading on felt; can provide pics if interested) - $30

Newton - $35

The Pursuit of Happiness (ding and dent purchase; box has decent damage on edges and bottom. Components are excellent. Can provide pics if interested.) - $12

Renature - $20

Ride the Rails - $20

Saloon Tycoon w/ Boomtown, Dead or Alive and The Ranch expansion (all one box) - $50

Scotland Yard - $5

SeaFall (opened but unplayed) - $10

Shark (wear from age) - $3

Sideral Confluence (2nd Edition; unplayed) - $40

SpaceCorp: 2025-2300 AD - $45

Stop the Train! (unplayed) - $30

Tail Feathers - $50

The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31 - $35

Trickerion: Legends of Illusion - $50

Ticket to Ride 10th Anniversary - $300

Under Falling Skies (opened but unplayed) - $15

Whistle Stop - $20

Who Goes There? (First edition) - $25

Mostly looking to sell but would also be interested in the following via trade: Heat: Pedal to the Metal, Crokinole Board, Monikers expansions (More Monikers, Serious Nonsense, Schmonikers & Something Something), Sherriff of Nottingham Merry Men and promos (1st edition), Sol: Last Days of a Star, and Tumblin' Dice.

Also looking for the following kids games: Kraken Attack, Loopin Louie, Monza 20th Anniversary Edition, and Rhino Hero: Super Battle.

Let me know if you have any questions! I am motivated to get these games in your hands so they are played!

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instantcoffee69 OP t1_jc256w6 wrote

> In the early 2000s, a gang killing of a nephew drove Adolfo Martinez’s mother away from her native Honduras. She fled with Adolfo in her arms, then about a year old, and joined her husband, who was already working in the United States. Here, his parents do not practice what they set out to do as young adults. But coming to the U.S. — even without documentation — meant that their children might have opportunities they did not.
Martinez, by all measures, thrived. Growing up in Owings Mills, he served as a Boy Scout, tutored middle schoolers and volunteered with his church. When it came time to apply for colleges, he was accepted into eight out of 10 schools. The 21-year-old student is currently a junior majoring in forensic studies at Loyola University Maryland and an Ultimate Frisbee competitor.

This man, like many others, has been an outstanding American, doing well for his community. Now he faces deportation to a country he does not know, nor call home.

> When Martinez turned 15, his family looked into obtaining legal status for him through DACA. But Republican Donald Trump had just been elected president after disparaging Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals and vowing to build a wall to keep immigrants from crossing the southern border into the United States.
Advocacy groups like CASA feared the new administration would misuse personal information on file to track down and deport DACA recipients, so an attorney with the community organization advised the family against applying for the program.
Instead, the family applied for asylum for Martinez around his 18th birthday. His mother and her friend filed the paperwork together out of desperation and worry for her son. She did not think to look for an immigration lawyer at the time due to the cost, trusting her well-intentioned friend who had gone through the process before.

The system makes "doing the right way" nearly impossible, and that's the point.

> Caught in the middle are more than a million immigrants like Martinez. In Maryland alone, there are an estimated 13,000 individuals who could qualify for DACA and only 7,200 who are in the program, according to the Migration Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. A majority of people in deportation proceedings do not have legal representation, and immigrants with attorneys “fare better at every stage of the court process.”

This struggle did not start with Trump, nor did it end with him. It's a long fight, and it must be continued. Trump's policies stay in place, and Democrats have broken their promise. We need to keep pressure until the job is done, and the job is never done.

Here's how to donate to CASA Baltimore

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dopkick t1_jc1tesu wrote

Yes, but that can be accomplished at a city-wide level with the existing infrastructure. You don't need valuable land and the city losing tax revenue for your hobby.

Let's assume that 10 townhomes could be built in this space. Let's assume they are $650,000 each. And the people living in them bring in $200,000 per year per unit. All very reasonable assumptions. That's $146,000 per year in real estate taxes and $64,000 per year in income tax. Or $210,000 per year total.

For $210,000 I can hire two people (fully burdened) with the sole task of planting native shrubs. Or I can support your hobby. Not a hard choice.

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elephantsandrainbows OP t1_jc1rocs wrote

Hi, I have no anger towards under armour! They have been a great community partner. There is no more green space in Locust Point, literally every corner is developed.

We were recently scouting new locations for community gardens and unless someone is willing to buy and destroy a building / parking area for us, there are no other spaces!

UA is a massive company with lots of money and this would be a tax donation. They are from the city of Baltimore, and have been in Locust Point for years, and contributing to their green space would be a lovely way to end that partnership.

There are tax benefits to donating the space; also Port Covington is literally adjacent to Locust Point and there is talk between the communities about joint projects / building better access to one another. Under Armour is still a Baltimore business and the hope is this petition demonstrates how much of our community (and their clientele) value this truly unique space!

No animosity towards UA. If they say no I will be bummed but understanding. We have to at least ask.

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sooperdooperboi t1_jc1kjig wrote

Have you inquired about the possibility of raising money to buy the property for the community? If the neighborhood can raise more money than the developer to buy, or make it more profitable than the homes, then the community could just buy it outright. Otherwise I don’t see how you stop UA from selling their property.

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S-Kunst t1_jc197gu wrote

Sadly its the Medical center, itself, which creates the dead zone at its boarders. No investor wants to put up money there just to have it taken over when the hospital center wants to expand. Additionally the hospital is an encampment. It has all the things in its boundary, except housing, so no investor is going to build restaurants, shops etc to create activity our side the castle walls.

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dopkick t1_jc0q9yx wrote

First and foremost, let’s keep in mind that community gardens are a hobby. They’re not going to produce enough food to actually sustain families. In practice they’re often not efficiently utilized as well.

I would rather see a more comprehensive strategy for planting things that attract pollinators across the entire city. Why limit it to small plots here and there?

Also, those vacant townhouses that this sub has a hard on for would be much better community gardens. The land is generally not desirable so the city would not be losing out on prospective tax revenue.

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PleaseBmoreCharming t1_jc0hhah wrote

How would one's quality of life be diminished by building additional housing? Lemme ask this, how are you defining "quality of life" here? If the public facilities and infrastructure is adequate for additional development to be approved, then theoretically quality of life should not be diminished, unless this is a personal preference in which that's not applicable as a reason to prevent the development.

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nemoran t1_jc0c8p0 wrote

The main benefits of the buildings near campus are the quick commute to school, and being so close to many of your classmates. That said, there’s not a ton to do other than school and seeing those classmates when you’re in that general vicinity.

If you’re looking for more of the walk around and get coffee, or go to a park, or even potentially walk to a grocery store kind of lifestyle, then I echo the commenter above’s recommendation about looking at the shuttle routes. For instance, there’s a direct shuttle from Hampden (Keswick Building) to Bloomberg’s front door.

The Metro also runs through some of downtown right to Broadway (Hopkins Hospital) so that opens some more neighborhoods up as well.

Many students and staff also live in Patterson Park and Upper Fells, which can be walkable on nice days or are just quick bikes/scoots otherwise. There’s another shuttle that goes through those neighborhoods but I don’t have firsthand experience with it to give much detail.

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tennismagic t1_jc0c1y6 wrote

Try Butchers Hill and Upper Fells Point. Close to the hospital and also walking distance to other things in the city. As others said, other places on the shuttle line are good to but those two are walking distance. Lots of houses turned into apartments in that area so not big complexes, but still lots of options.

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ice_cold_fahrenheit t1_jc0bea9 wrote

As I explained in my other comment, new development will make overall rents cheaper than what they would’ve otherwise been, regardless of if the new development is affordable, luxury, or anything in between. This article explains it in more detail.

If you suggest they should develop affordable instead of market rate housing, then that’s a fair sentiment, but even market-rate housing will be better than not building at all. If you are actually suggesting not building anything at all, well…

Also I do wonder how common the last thing you said actually is. The usual complaints I see online is about developers advertising “luxury” apartments when they’re just bog-standard 5-over-1s.

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Dangerous_Wave t1_jc09ekp wrote

So explain why they just put 250k townhouses off Cedar Hill Rd in Glen Burnie, less than 2 miles from Church St. That's not affordable for 95% of Baltimoreans.

In addition, the so called "low income" apartments they stuck between Lidl (ritchie hwy) and Chesapeake Art center (hammonds lane) was, last I heard, $1000 for a one bedroom. Also not affordable.

They claim low income right up till it's time to cut the ribbon for real estate agents, then jack the price to the sky because "it cost more to build than expected."

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