Maryland Business

By: jackie.sauter

Most people know Fells Point’s Recreation Pier as the filming location for the NBC series “Homicide: Life on the Street,” which ran from 1993 to 1999.

But in 2006, the historic structure was also part of the set for “Step Up,” a fantastically teenaged guilty pleasure of a movie about competitive dance crews, and again for “Step Up 2: The Streets.”

Both were set in Baltimore, and both, curiously, involve scenes in which street dancers vandalize the Maryland School of the Arts.While reporting on today’s story about the Recreation Pier, Daily Record photographer Rich Dennison and I got a brief tour of the building and saw the leftovers of the filming sets for the Step Up films.

In the tradition of On the Record blog posts about forgotten movie sets, here’s a slideshow of interior shots of the Recreation Pier, standing in as the Maryland School of the Arts.

ROBBIE WHELAN, Business Writer