i'd love to know!

I absolutely agree that downtown has to do better! Infrastructure is decaying, & so dated. I would seriously put my focus on revitalizing downtown Baltimore. It would attract many people to come visit and possibly want to live.

none of what you said makes any sense.

If Maryland became a stand your ground state, I would move. More often than not, stand your ground laws just get innocent people killed and in situations where they should help, they don’t. We’re better off without laws like that.

> these 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.

Corruption. One word sums it up. But, that won't change until the people do something to make it change. Voting in a favorite of one or the other party over and over again is never going to work. It hasn't in the past and it's naive to think it will in the future. We need to prop up those who genuinely care and have shown that they work for the people. This of course require the citizens of the city to put in the effort. In the meantime, while more law enforcement is not a perfect fix, it is an effective stop-gap in that it allows the local population to ease some stress, earn more money and turn there attention to doing something about ineffectual local government. After that, then you can roll back law enforcement as needed.

Waiting is exactly what got us into the mess we're currently in. All of our politicians keep saying "just wait, things will get better" and then they end up hitting term limits or whatever with little to know noticeable results and everyone forgets what's been happening and focus on the new people.

Baugeher's in Westminster had a huge stack they were selling over the summer, something like $2.50 apiece and 5 for $10 (don't quote me on that, it's been months).

https://baughers.com/

That’s a good idea. We want to stay within Baltimore, but reaching out to places that have a space we can use is not something I had thought of. Will look into that, thanks!

That's hilarious. For my rehearsal dinner I reached out to the Annapolis Freemasons chapter and even as a non-member was able to rent out their entire event space for four hours for $25. Then I just got about $300 worth of BBQ from Mission BBQ and set it up on the tables they provided. So if you're fine with doing catering (which was super easy) then I'd reach out to local groups like the Freemasons who may have their own space.

This business is leaving. There are other stories recently about businesses moving to Baltimore. Harbor Point, Canton Crossing, and Port Covington are all doing pretty well. Downtown needs to do better. However, it's challenging for downtowns all over the country right now.

Haven’t been to the Tavern in forever. Good idea, thanks!

That’s an idea. We actually considered having our wedding there.

Never been, but looks cool. Thanks!

Absolutely impossible to know. If I had to guess, they don't need a suite the size of their current Baltimore offices under any circumstances anymore, but may well keep a smaller office here for local employees who aren't totally remote.

Ha, that’s actually where we’re getting married

Pittsburgh's population is dropping faster than Baltimore's. Also has more poverty. However, I do really like Pittsburgh. I say these things only to show that Baltimore isn't as bad as you might think.

Mt. Washington Tavern has an upstairs room. Not a restaurant, but we had our rehearsal dinner at the forest park golf course

Yup. Given the relative size and prices of the two properties, it's entirely possible that the reason behind this is just "Pandora would've always preferred to be in NYC, and now that their in-office staff has gotten small enough, they can afford it." In any case, there's no new ax to grind here.

That’s a major blow to this city! If I were mayor, or a politician, I would be extremely embarrassed. Businesses are leaving. Scary.

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Visited Pittsburgh recently, was very surprised. Beautiful! You could really feel the growth of the city

> 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

No dude, this is exactly and specifically what you're doing. The answer to "why is a Danish company moving its US HQ to Times Square?" is only "free Tile trackers!" if you got slapped on the back at the wrong moment during a TED talk in 2014 or so.

The NYC property's going to be 1/3 the size of their square footage in Baltimore. Given what the last 2-3 years have been like specifically in terms of commercial real estate, it's reasonable to think this would be playing out the same way even if we'd built out the entire Baltimore metro network and most people were commuting in via transit.

> Just as a little aside, I don’t think a lot of people grasp the grave impact of killing or seriously injuring another person, not just on the person they have defended themselves against, but on themselves as well

It's astonishing the amount of CCW advocates that will 'look down at me' or call me 'weak' or 'willing victim' for being glad I didn't kill the kid who robbed me once. They put NO value on other peoples lives.

This is such a good take. This is literally how jurors interpret the current laws, giving the "blend" OP seems to be looking for.

The law as it applies to facts is always going to be interrupted through the lense of the average citizen in that jurisdiction. You don't necessarily need to change the law if youre ooking for increments of change.

I find most people who support stand you ground are sheltered, violent, blood thirsty thugs who have watched way too many westerns, don't understand how actual robberies happen and put no value on other people's lives.

Nashville? Atlanta? Pittsburg?