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Daily Record investigation: Jobs come slowly in New East Baltimore
In a desperate neighborhood like Middle East, where unemployment a decade ago was as high as 30 percent and drug dealers worked the corners, the lure of new jobs was […]
Daily Record investigation: Wrecking buildings or lives in Middle East?
Did they have to destroy the community to save it? Most of The New East Baltimore‘s 88 acres remain undeveloped, with only 37 percent of the rental and for-sale homes […]
Daily Record investigation: Seeking a new vision
It was a glass-half-full day. It was a time to celebrate cranes in the air — four of them — towering behind Johns Hopkins Hospital, where the stalled $1.8 billion […]
Daily Record investigation: The muddled money trail
East Baltimore Development Inc. has spent $6.4 million per acre since 2002 to revitalize a largely vacant chunk of inner city bounded on three sides by slum and blight. The […]
EBDI document links
Below is an expanded list of links to documents related to The Daily Record‘s investigation into East Baltimore Development Inc. Letter to the editor from Arlene Conn EBDI’s April-May 2010 […]
Daily Record investigation: A dream derailed
The nation’s largest urban redevelopment, a projected $1.8 billion effort to transform 88 acres of East Baltimore into a world-class biotech park and idyllic urban community, lies derailed amid vacant […]
Daily Record investigation: Renaming Middle East hits a sour note
What’s in a name? That’s a loaded question if you ask people from Middle East, a community north of Johns Hopkins Hospital that is subject to an 88-acre overhaul. Now […]
Daily Record investigation: Elected officials short on financial details
Until recently, the last time an elected official raised any serious questions about the public funding of The New East Baltimore project was in 2003, when it was just getting […]
East Baltimore residents’ dreams derailed by EBDI project
The plan to redevelop East Baltimore was announced in January 2001, but 10 years later, the the redevelopment has fallen short. Hundreds of residents have been relocated, while leaving whole blocks of row homes vacant and wide open fields where houses once stood. For some residents, the experience has been unsettling.
Too big to fail: An overview
With a background of photographs from the streets of East Baltimore, reporter Melody Simmons narrates an overview of The Daily Record's five-month investigation into East Baltimore Development Inc., the people behind the project and the affected residents.
EBDI interviews: Glenn Ross
Community advocate Glenn Ross lives in McElderry Park, the next neighborhood over from The New East Baltimore project. He has seen much transition in his community over the past 10 years.
EBDI interviews: Donald Gresham
Donald Gresham, once homeless, became a homeowner in East Baltimore, and was removed under eminent domain. He is currently relocating to a renovated house on McDonough Street, still at the EBDI site.
