Baltimore Regional Partnership
$50,000 / 2001 / Community Development
For an analysis of alternative land use, transportation, and housing scenarios for the Baltimore region. This study will help to provide new planning tools for strategies to reduce traffic and air pollution.
Baltimore Neighborhood Collaborative/Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers
$60,000 / 2001 / Community Development
Renewed funding for an expansion of six neighborhood community-building initiatives. This collaborative will provide support to help develop local leadership and increase community activism.
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.
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.
Baltimore Development Corporation
$420,000 / 2001 / Community Development
Two grants toward an initiative designed to persuade nonprofit organizations, such as World Relief and the Association of Academic Physiatrists, to move their national headquarters or regional offices to Baltimore City.