Baltimore Development News

[LilMoeJoeJoe]

1. You could pick crabs before you could walk.

2. From snow to hurricanes to heat waves, you've seen every kind of weather imaginable.

3. 695 gets you everywhere.

4. You stress the 'Oh' in the U.S. National Anthem.

5. It's 'DC', not 'Washington'; 'Hopkins', not 'Johns Hopkins', and 'goin' downa' ocean' means you're off to Ocean City, Bethany, or Rehoboth.

6. You've had relatives imprisoned at Ft. McHenry.

7. Half your high school graduating class went to College Park.

8. The opening of a Wegman's was the greatest thing to happen to your city in ten years.

9. You put Old Bay on everything.

10. You hate the Yankees, the Steelers, and especially the Colts.

11. The murder rate is higher than the graduation rate.

12. You can go 1 inch beyond the city line and know that you're out of the city.

13. You don't wash your clothes, you 'warsh' them.

14. You can pronounce 'Havre de Grace.' (Not the French way, the Baltimore way.)

15. You've gotten lost and ended up in the projects.

16. You know that The Power Plant is not for the production of electricity.

17. You're pissed off that we have to share our only airport with DC (I mean, don't they already have 2?)

18. You remember when the Orioles were good.

19. You say 'wuder', not 'water'.

20. On September 11, when you heard terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, you thought they meant the tower by the Harbor.

21. You know where to get the best crabs, crab cakes, and crab soup.

22. You eat snowballs, not throw them.

23. Cal Ripken was your childhood hero.

24. You're considered a Southerner when visiting New England, and you're a Yankee when visiting the South.

25. Distance is measured in minutes.

26. You know when to avoid the Bay Bridge.

27. Every one of your parents' childhood memories revolves around a Colts game.

28. A Berger is not something you grill.

29. Your Senator's website features a recipe for crabcakes.

30. You can spot a Baltimore accent immediately.

31. You watch a John Waters or Barry Levinson movie and recognize someone.

32. Artscape is the event of the season.

33. Five homicides is a good day for your town.

34. Lacrosse ain't no city in Wisconsin.

35. School is out when there's an inch of snow, but when you can't get out of your driveway you somehow have to go.

36. You know what Natty Boh is.

37. The idea of crabs without Old Bay makes you sick.

38. You think living 45 minutes from the nation's capital, 1.5 hours from Philadelphia, and 3.5 hours from New York City is the greatest thing in the world.

39. You think HBO's 'The Wire' isn't violent enough.

40. Your car has a bumper sticker that says 'BLIEVE HON'

41. The Washington Monument in your city is not a white obelisk.

42. You go to The Fudgery at The Harborplace just to hear singing.

43. You didn't realize that horses race at Preakness.

44. You leave the U.S. and people ask you where you're from, you reply 'near Washington' to avoid confusion.

45. You love your city and share this group with all your friends from Baltimore.

[Brian21]

Omg...These are soo true...lol

[marc1969]

Originally Posted by 30 Floors Up

Harboring success
A documentary explores how the redevelopment of Baltimore's waterfront became a marvel, then a model for cities across the globe

Will definitely be watching this!

[Huck]

Awesome banner today!

[jamie_hunt]

Originally Posted by LilMoeJoeJoe

...
44. You leave the U.S. and people ask you where you're from, you reply 'near Washington' to avoid confusion. ...

Huh. Thought the reply was " 'Merica, hon!"

[jamie_hunt]

Originally Posted by 30 Floors Up

...
Influenced by Baltimore

... Rotterdam, the Netherlands: Downtown was extended across the Maas River with a new office, housing and tourism development built around a revitalized cruise-ship terminal with a festival market in a converted Customs House. ...

I can see Baltimore's "next" Inner Harbor being oriented around the Locust Point cruise ship terminal, with a redeveloped Port Covington to the west, Ft. McHenry to the east, and I-95 to the north.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=...num=1&ct=title

Which would kinda look like the Inner Harbor as originally proposed:


hat tip: roadstothefuture.com http://www.roadstothefuture.com/EW_E...bor_Route.html

[Brian21]

My god I'm glad that plan never happenend.

[Aryd]

Originally Posted by Nameless in Balto

Where did you find the picture; Is there an article with this?

Found this website:

http://www.marks-thomas.com/portfoli...atid=6&catid=3

[Maudibjr]

Well I got downtown today for the first time in a loooooong time. (Warning rant Took a long lunch to get O's tickets at the box office, TM wanted $4.25 a ticket to process for a $15 ticket, WTF??, buying 6 tickets is an extra $27 and thats for will call. i work in HV so it was worth it to take leisurely ride down on the Lt. Rail and buy at the box office for no extra charge, my little rant that no one cares about is over ) )

Anyway, got my first up close look at the new Hilton, which they have a sign up saying it is opening in August. In person I don't think that the metal sides of the building look that bad, not by any means good, but not terrible. I was disappointed with what looks to me to be a complete disregard of the street level. The street level is either blank walls or service uses. Blah.

I noticed thare is quite a bit of construction occuring at UMD medical. I thought that the project on Pratt had been delayed?

[hpal3]

Originally Posted by 30 Floors Up

Harboring success
A documentary explores how the redevelopment of Baltimore's waterfront became a marvel, then a model for cities across the globe


Sydney, Australia: The city's Darling Harbour area was redeveloped with a convention center, aquarium, science museum, promenade and festival marketplace.

Rotterdam, the Netherlands: Downtown was extended across the Maas River with a new office, housing and tourism development built around a revitalized cruise-ship terminal with a festival market in a converted Customs House.

Belfast, Northern Ireland: James Rouse's Enterprise Development Co. worked with Irish developers to win the rights to the Laganside project, which includes a municipal auditorium, pedestrian promenade, Hilton hotel and the Irish headquarters of British Telecom.

Osaka, Japan: The city was transformed by a waterfront development that includes an aquarium, a cruise-ship terminal and the Tempozan Marketplace.

Barcelona, Spain: Enterprise was retained by the national port authority of Spain to prepare the master plan for the development of Port Vell, the old port of Barcelona, and then worked with a developer to create Mare Magnum, a popular tourist destination.

Norfolk, Va.: The downtown revival was started by The Waterside, a festival market patterned after Harborplace. A convention center, World Trade Center, Marriott hotel, nautical science museum and cruise-ship terminal followed.

Long Beach, Calif.: In a shoreline mud flat between downtown and the deep-sea harbor, the city developed Queensway Bay with a waterfront market and the SS Queen Mary, which has been converted to a docked hotel. Architect Stanton Eckstut calls Queensway Bay "the Baltimore of the West Coast."

I would add Jacksonville, Fl to that list. The Landing and Riverwalk has been a big success
for the city.

[MDguy]

How about Chattanooga too? Well,its not so apparent elsewhere in the city, but they built an aquarium that looks a lot like the one here and they've done a lot with their waterfront

image hosted on flickr

http://flickr.com/photos/rhoward454/2483965255/

[DemolitionDave]

My SIL won a bunch of awards for her work in Barcelona


http://www.asla.org/awards/2005/05wi...entry_492.html


I don't know why we couldn't do something world class with Baltimore's waterfront.

[MasonsInquiries]

Originally Posted by Brian21

My god I'm glad that plan never happenend.

yeah, there would've never been a federal hill, or probably a key hwy for that matter....

[mkroopn]

Does anyone know where McHenry Row is located? This map, http://www.mchenryrow.com/pdf/siteMap.pdf, has Key highway and Woodal street parrallel to each other with McHenry Row in between. But when I tried finding it today, I'm fairly certain Woodall street intersected with Key highway. On the other hand, directly across from the Southside shopping center in Locust Point is a huge plot of vacant land that is fenced off. Is that the area designated for McHenry Row?

[House3780]

Originally Posted by MasonsInquiries

yeah, there would've never been a federal hill, or probably a key hwy for that matter....

Great, fewer Nimbys and DBMVs (dont block my view) to deal with

Please no one bitch about the view.. its a joke.. for the most part..

[Nameless in Balto]

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[Maudibjr]

Check the Roads to the Future link Jamie supplied above for all you ever wanted to know about I-170.

I thought that they should of built the section of I-70 that connected 95 to the old I-170. The part of I-70 that ran through Leakin Park was DOA after the late '60's since the feds decided that they would not fund any highway that ran though a park. Since aprroved highways got 90% fed funding, The state would of had to pay for it entirely on its own.

[Darryl]

Originally Posted by LilMoeJoeJoe

17. You're pissed off that we have to share our only airport with DC (I mean, don't they already have 2?)

LOL that's always irked me.

I just flew to San Francisco last week on Southwest and their in flight magazine says that BWI services the Washington DC area. No mention of Baltimore outside of the name of the airport (which they can't avoid but probably would if they could).

[Darryl]

Originally Posted by Maudibjr

I was disappointed with what looks to me to be a complete disregard of the street level. The street level is either blank walls or service uses.

Totally agree with you. This is my biggest problem with the new Hilton too (Despite the whole thing being unworthy of that prime location. That location deserves world class architecture that "wows", but it seems Baltimore is just not into the whole "world class thing". Sigh.) The street level is completely disregarded. How has this project contributed to the idea of Pratt Street being a promenade? Pedestrians will be walking by big red brick walls, not shops, not cafes with outdoor seating, etc...

[Darryl]

Originally Posted by DemolitionDave

I don't know why we couldn't do something world class with Baltimore's waterfront.

Because Baltimore is stuck with a mediocre, second-tier city mentality.

Sorry for these rants guys. It's 5 in the morning. That's my excuse. LOL I do actually love Baltimore, I just wish Baltimore would pull out of it's inferiority complex and grow some balls and do something daring.

I'll find some only positive comments to contribute at a better time in the day.