Old Ellicott City is a nice half day trip. There are different shops and good eateries and bars. There is an axe throwing/VR place for activities besides eating and shopping.

There is a parking lot off Oella Ave just as you turn off Frederick Rd. There is another lot further up Main St on your left just after you pass Old Columbia Pike.

You could stay almost a whole day in that area. The Washington Monument is located right there and you can climb to the top lookout level. The Walters Art Museum (free admission) is a block away from the Peabody Library. Three more blocks away is the main branch of the public Enoch Pratt Free Library, which opened in 1933. While not as grand as the Peabody, it’s still pretty neat. The Baltimore Basilica, the nation’s first Roman Catholic cathedral, is right across the street from there. It’s open to just pop into or they have regular guided tours.

Is there not? Looking at rents in Locust Point and Harbor East, it certainly seems like there’s one to me, even if it’s not as egregious as in other cities. After all it’s not like those particular places have vacant housing - it’s the blighted blocks people are moving out of that bring down the citywide average.

And even if there wasn’t a housing shortage per se, it would be good to build more housing anyways to bring prices even lower. And that can happen while the city gets rid of vacant housing at the same time.

Live in Canton near a shuttle stop

Trick question. He wouldn't have been out on bail in the first place.

I'm hosting a pop-up museum at Patagonia, Saturday 3/18 11a-3p.

OLAR has gone downhill in the last 6 months or so...

Take a Greyhound bus. It’s cheaper. Use it to go to NYC all the time. Unless you have you heart set on taking the train, then idk. 😬

I do think it’s admirable that you’re passionate about your local community, and I also don’t oppose community gardens in general (see my quip about putting them in parking lots). But I do believe given the housing shortage around the country (and in the Northeast in particular) that building more housing is imperative, and I’ve seen a lot of instances nationwide where locals abuse the idea of “preserving their community” to block development, ultimately harming fellow community members for the reasons I stated elsewhere.

Lmao “safe and some kind of mixup”, so republican judge who has no intention of doing their job.

How often do you think they say that when it’s some black kid framed by the cops?

> Adding more houses benefits no one

It would definitely benefit Locust Point renters who would have their rent prices decrease (unless you’re one of the people who thinks building new housing increases rents). It would also benefit people who would want to move there in the future (unless you think, for whatever reason, that more people shouldn’t move there in general).

> And leads to more vacant housing

How does that lead to more vacant housing??? If this was built in a blighted area sure, but I bet new housing in Locust Point would get snatched up like hotcakes.

> It’s wasteful to build more houses

Whose resources are being “wasted?” This is a private developer who will be using their own funds to build housing on land sold by Under Armor, none of whom would otherwise be using their resources to tear down vacant housing.

Bad republicans policies that democrats promise to remove then choose to ignore is American politics of the past 50 years in a nutshell

Florida property seizure laws, apparently. First thing a bankruptcy lawyer advises is “buy the biggest house in Florida that you can.”

In short, they can get you but they can’t take everything from you.

But the point of taxes is that it all rolls up to a single bucket at the strategic level to be spent on the most high impact projects across the city in a timely fashion. LP might see $0 of that $210K be reinvested for 10 years. Then might be the recipients of a $10M project. Saying tax dollars need to be spent exclusively locally basically ensure the rich get much richer and the poor get driven away.

The housing put in would not be affordable, and we already have too many vacant houses in this city. There is NOT a housing shortage here, and I am surprised you don't understand that.

We have too many houses in the city and not enough residents. Adding more houses benefits no one, and leads to more vacant houses that kill firefighters. It is so wasteful to build new houses when so many are being knocked down.

Amtrak is the easiest option, but if cheap is what matters look at taking a bus.

What is it with corrupt politicians and Florida? This dude down there with Jair Bolsonaro and Trump just pretending like Florida is its own country with no extradition treaties.

Hello, i respectively disagree. I would be happy to help any other community protect an asset that is important to them as well. I think green space preservation across the city is important.

I do not think this should only apply to my neighborhood! However, i do feel i’m properly situated to advocate for my own neighborhood, as I live there

From the article:

"McGrath, who now lives in Florida, was due in U.S. District Court in Baltimore at 9 a.m. The appointed time came and went with no sign of him. As of 10 a.m., he had not appeared.

“We all just hope he is safe and there’s some mix-up,” said Judge Deborah L. Boardman. She paused before continuing: “And I suppose we just wait.”

Prosecutors and McGrath’s defense attorney, Joseph Murtha, were present and ready to proceed. Murtha told the judge he sent repeated text messages to McGrath and McGrath’s wife and had received no response."

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We basically already had that yesterday. https://www.reddit.com/r/baltimore/comments/11pfxli/going_to_nyc_1xweek/

It's more complicated but I'm pretty sure they added like a $2 bus in Cecil County that takes you from the Perryville MARC stop to the last SEPTA stop in Newark. So you can stick on both regional lines and get to Philly (with a bit more work) for like $20. You could also bus the whole way to Philly.

Just take the bus to Philly. Short trip and very inexpensive.

I agree that there are far more effective ways to spend $210k, should it be properly earmarked somehow. It's only $210k if the City receives the tax though. Since real estate and income taxes go into the City's coffers, we can't trust that it would be used to help LP or even properly at all. I feel like it's a roll of the dice with pretty bad odds that something tangible and net-good would come out of the money should the City receive it. That means it's not really worth $210k to LP unless some responsible party holds it and will use it as such.