EBDI development plan draws fire from Middle East residents 

BY: Melody Simmons
POSTED: August 24, 2011
Tags: christopher shea, community, Donald Gresham, east baltimore, east baltimore development inc., EBDI, Forest City-New East Baltimore Partnership, Gov. Martin O’Malley, hearing, Johns Hopkins, meeting, neighborhood, plan

Residents of Middle East reacted angrily again Wednesday night against efforts to present a new development plan for their community, saying they have been disenfranchised from the process and fear they will be priced out of their neighborhood. In a third meeting at East Baltimore Development Inc., called to discuss a proposed plan for the [...]

Community challenges new EBDI plan 

BY: Melody Simmons
POSTED: August 11, 2011
Tags: Annie E. Casey Foundation, challenge, christopher shea, community, east baltimore development inc., EBDI, Forest City-New East Baltimore Partnership, Kia-Michelle Massey, meeting

During a second contentious meeting in two weeks, a group of Middle East residents Thursday night challenged a new plan for the massive redevelopment of their community by East Baltimore Development Inc. For more than an hour, about 50 angry residents of the area questioned the motives and intent of EBDI and Forest City-New East [...]

New grassroots organization formed in Middle East 

BY: Melody Simmons
POSTED: August 9, 2011
Tags: community, Development, east baltimore development inc., EBDI, Johns Hopkins, middle east

Middle East residents have formed a grassroots organization to advocate for increased voting representation on the East Baltimore Development Inc. board because they believe they have been excluded from making key decisions in the $1.8 billion redevelopment effort. The mobilization is part of a resurgence of community activism in and around the 88-acre site where [...]

Loch Raven Village sold for $26M 

BY: Melody Simmons
POSTED: June 28, 2011
Tags: apartments, Baltimore, community, housing, Leslea Knauff, loch raven villiage, maryland, new jersey, Principal Financial Group, Real Estate, rental, sold, Tryko Partners LLC

Loch Raven Village apartments has been purchased by a New Jersey-based private equity real estate group that plans to spend $4 million in upgrades to the struggling, 61-year-old complex this year. Tryko Partners LLC bought the 495-unit rental community, located in Parkville on Loch Raven Boulevard near Joppa Road, for $26 million. The 20-acre development [...]

Baltimore police aim to recruit ‘Hometown Heroes’

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: April 14, 2011
Tags: Baltimore, baltimore hometown heroes, baltimore police, Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld, community, hometown heroes, mayor stephanie rawlings-blake, police hires, stephanie rawlings-blake

Baltimore police are aiming to hire another 300 officers by year’s end and are asking members of the community for help in finding city residents to join the force. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld on Thursday announced the “Hometown Heroes” initiative, which includes a promotion of the cadet program and an effort to [...]

EBDI pledges more transparency 

BY: Melody Simmons and Joan Jacobson
POSTED: March 30, 2011
Tags: African-American community, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Baltimore, carl stokes, city council, community, Douglas W. Nelson, east baltimore development inc., EBDI, Forest City-New East Baltimore Partnership, hearing, jobs, John G. Rangos Sr., johns hopkins hospital, local residents, maryland, middle east, Taxation Finance and Economic Development Committee
Comments: 3

Officials of East Baltimore Development Inc. promised a City Council committee Wednesday evening that they would operate with a renewed sense of transparency and communication about the finances and progress in economic development and new home construction as part of the $1.8 billion redevelopment project on 88 acres in Middle East. But City Council members [...]

Stephanie S. Franklin has a passion for empowerment 

BY: Danny Jacobs
POSTED: March 20, 2011
Tags: Baltimore, community, department of juvenile services, Family League of Baltimore City Inc., lawyer, maryland, Mecca’s Place, neglected children, Stephanie S. Franklin

Stephanie S. Franklin spends most weekday mornings in court representing abused and neglected children and most afternoons visiting with her clients and their families at Mecca’s Place. The rest of her time is devoted to developing and growing the center, which she founded while still at her previous job with the Family League of Baltimore [...]

Focus groups focus on renaming Middle East 

BY: Melody Simmons
POSTED: March 10, 2011
Tags: andrew frank, andy frank, community, EBDI, focus group, Johns Hopkins, middle east, rename
Comments: 1

Call it the name game. Andrew B. Frank, special advisor on economic development to Johns Hopkins University’s president, Ronald J. Daniels, and a former deputy mayor, said Thursday that six possible names for the 88 acres of the Middle East community are being tried out on focus groups by marketing experts. “It’s ridiculous that we’re [...]

Editorial: A welcome move on EBDI hearings

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: February 10, 2011
Tags: carl stokes, city council, community, Development, east baltimore development inc., EBDI, hearings, Nonprofit, project

We commend the City Council for its unanimous vote Monday to convene hearings into the projected $1.8 billion project known as The New East Baltimore. This is exactly the kind of oversight by our elected officials that has been lacking during the first decade of the nation’s largest urban development project. And it is exactly [...]

Daily Record investigation: An uncertain future

BY: Melody Simmons and Joan Jacobson
POSTED: February 3, 2011
Tags: CEO, christopher shea, community, crossroads, Development, east baltimore development inc., future, Johns Hopkins, middle east
Comments: 7

The New East Baltimore project stands at a crossroads as it enters its second decade. After $564 million of investment, plans for a world-class biotech park have been shelved. Creation of new housing and new jobs lags far behind schedule. Planners working on a new vision for the nation’s largest urban redevelopment project now hope [...]

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