Visionary arts museum cafe

[removed]

I booked the upstairs at Red Star in Fells Point. It was great.

T. Rowe Price is on this year's Fortune 500 list. Their HQ is in Baltimore https://troweprice.gcs-web.com/

Guilford Hall has a nice private event space on the second floor

Does that only apply to the homeowner? Could that also extend to a resident of the home?

I prefer stand your own ground aka Fuck around and find out.

Maryland is a "and I took that personally" state

we don't put as much money into our tourist districts or as much effort into making sure the criminals stay out of the tourist areas. cities with good tourism make more of an effort to keep armed squeegeers and dirtbikers out of the core tourist district.

I remember years ago Hogan used to point to O’Malley and Dems being the reason Baltimore didn’t have a Fortune 500 (or something along those lines) yet in the final month of his Governorship, he’s losing a fairly large company in the city. Doubt this will stick to him in terms of legacy, but he certainly deserves to take some of the blame here as his predecessor.

Yup, this is why whenever I hear these stories of people just walking into someone's house I'm like 👀...

I’ve heard of them but have never been. The menu looks good, plus bonus points for having the separate bar. Will check it out, thanks!

It’s important to note that within duty to retreat is the whole “retreat to your castle” meaning that within your home you are the king and pretty much anything goes. If a MFer is in your home,stand your ground.

there is a difference between thinking about their own budgets vs thinking about how a city can add jobs and tax revenue.

> but it’s not something that can be easily curtailed by just “adding more law enforcement”

this is exactly what I'm talking about. people keep thinking of this as a 1-dimensional problem of more/less of our existing law enforcement. it does not have to be. I even enumerated 2 simple things that could make a big impact (Tile trackers and license plate scanners), that are not simply "more police" but could make an impact.

>problems are systemic to citizens of this city being put down by government malfeasance, redlining, and lack of opportunity resulting from those prior two issues. This requires a large change through education (the schools need improvement, that’s obvious) and government incentive (potentially UBI) to encourage a shift in attitude that will take the course of decades.

I don't disagree, but those things need tax revenue and time. that's kind of the point. people want things like UBI and better schools but don't think about how little things like dirt bikers, or squeegee kids, or carjackers, driving away jobs and tax revenue.

Much of the American jewelry and fashion industry are already headquartered in NYC. If they’re looking to hire in-office talent, it makes sense to locate where they already are. Baltimore was kind of an odd choice for them in the first place.

We booked the upstairs at blue hill. They had a separate bar up there and pre set menu. Would recommend. It was some years ago tho, not sure if things changed.

I think Baltimore City spends much too much time considering the needs (usually tax breaks) of large businesses and large developers, but very little time worrying about neighborhood level economies. There are very few large companies left in the city. But large business HQs in cities are also starting to become a thing of the past post-COVID. People don’t want to commute into downtown Baltimore and work in an office. But they also don’t want to trek into downtown Seattle or San Francisco (or even New York!) and work there either. These cities are hardly pictures of realty health right now, San Francisco office occupancy is something like 40%. The question is how to make Baltimore a more desirable place to live and a more economically productive place, and that starts by looking at economies at a neighborhood or even street by street level. Which start with residents and the businesses that serve and employ them.

But isn’t it also bad PR and media coverage that’s allowed it to get to a point where more people leave the city than come in? If more people focus on what is good (which is a lot), we’ll have more quality individuals and thus, more taxpayer money. Not to mention the fact that people feel safer when they’re surrounded by more people (the old “safety in numbers). Hence why I always cringe when people let one shooting keep them away from Fells or Canton. Chicago and New Orleans are two cities with similar crime issues to us, yet they never get the reputation as the crime and murder cities, and have great tourism industries. I think that’s something that could definitely stand to change for the better.

If the law were enforced evenly, I would prefer this state remain duty to retreat.

Good call, thanks. Won’t know the full headcount until a month before the date, but can probably figure out an accurate estimate sooner.

[removed]

Stand your ground 100%

I would get some of those details before asking around. Some places have rooms to rent but can also do certain meal plans vs just ordering off the menu. You get a bunch chiming in. There are a lot of good restaurants

Lol. I’m not smart, definitely should have thought to search the sub first. Thanks.