Office of the Mayor
$125,000 / 2001 / Community Development
For expenses related to Phase II of a land use and redevelopment plan for the east side neighborhood north of Johns Hopkins Hospital. The plan centers on a biomedical research facility and explores the feasibility of other economic, retail and residential uses.
Baltimore Development Corporation
$30,000 / 2001 / Community Development
Two grants for administrative expenses of Maglev-Maryland, a magnetic levitation high-speed train which, when fully operational, will reduce travel time between Baltimore and Washington to less than 20 minutes.
Patterson Park Community Development Corporation
$25,000 / 2001 / Community Development
For independent accounting services for a community development corporation experiencing extensive growth. Through housing acquisition, rehabilitations, sales and rentals, the corporation has been able to abate the deterioration of neighborhoods north and east of Patterson Park
Baltimore Development Corporation
$5,000 / 2001 / Community Development
To fund the costs of retaining a consultant whose responsibility is to develop consensus-building activities related to brownfields reforms. A strengthened State brownfields program, including an enhanced tax incentive package similar to the State Enterprise Zone Program, is considered one of the keys to economic revitalization of older cities like Baltimore and within the State’s Smart Growth strategies.
Patterson Park Community Development Corporation
$20,000 / 2001 / Community Development
Toward an initiative to clean streets and alleys in a 22-square-block area of the Patterson Park community.