The Daily Record’s five-month investigation into the redevelopment of East Baltimore was released in 12 installments over five days this week. The stories — particularly ones from the first three days of the series — dominated web traffic on our ...

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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. ...

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The New East Baltimore, a projected $1.8 billion effort to transform 88 blighted acres north of Johns Hopkins Hospital, is a mammoth undertaking with more than $200 million worth of public investment after a decade and precious little public oversight. ...

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Reporters Melody Simmons and Joan Jacobson have been investigating the redevelopment of East Baltimore since I started at The Daily Record in August. I was fortunate enough to work with them on several multimedia components to supplement their reporting. The ...

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After half a billion dollars of investment, the latest hopes of success for The New East Baltimore project are housed in three humble trailers on what used to be the playground of a now vacant and vandalized city school. There, ...

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The day was “like Christmas” — optimistic, energetic and full of hope, recalls Cathleene J. Miles. It was Aug. 31, 2009 and the temporary East Baltimore Community School was open for business. No one was more optimistic, energetic and full ...

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DAY 1: 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 lots, boarded houses and unfulfilled ...

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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 a huge selling point in rebuilding the community. When Baltimore ...

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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 planned for the first phase actually built. East Baltimore Development ...

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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 East Baltimore redevelopment project was getting a jump start. None ...

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