Park Heights Redevelopment Plans Presented to UDAAP Panel
The NHP Foundation and The Henson Development Company are the joint developers of two multi-family buildings planned for Phase I of the Major Redevelopment Area in Park Heights. The development team presented to the Urban Design and Architecture Advisory Panel (UDAAP) on May 6th. Phase I of the 17.3-acre site will include the multi-family buildings - one for families and one for seniors - and 17 new single-family detached homes, which will be developed by another partner, Marenberg Enterprises, Inc.
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Local Historian John McGrain Jr. Passes Away
On Sunday May 2, 2021, Baltimore lost one of its giants in local history, John McGrain Jr. He was considered a “historian’s historian.” For more than four decades, the staff at the Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation leaned heavily on John McGrain as we researched the history of Baltimore’s neighborhoods, buildings, bridges, mill sites and all things Baltimore. He was the most gracious man who openly shared his extraordinarily comprehensive research with staff. A call or email from staff to John would produce many tidbits of history. We would receive first by snail mail and then email, newspaper accounts, deed searches, quotes from books, and photographs from his seemingly endless reservoir of history. His research bore fruit in many locally published books: From Pig-iron to Cotton Duck: A History of Manufacturing Villages in Baltimore County [and City], Dickensian Baltimore: Survivals of a City’s Infrastructure Photographed of 65 Years, Jones Falls: Powering Industry that Propelled Baltimore, to name just a few. He was always available to help, to share, and to deepen our understanding of Baltimore.
Thank you John for all your help. You will be sorely missed.
INSPIRE News: REACH Partnership and Hartford Heights
REACH! Partnership Recommendation Report
REACH! Partnership Recommendation Report cover
The Department of Planning has released the REACH! Partnership at Lake Clifton Park + Harford Heights Building Draft INSPIRE Recommendation Report. Staff will be working with community associations, the schools, and others to seek further input on the recommendations to finalize the INSPIRE plan. DOP is grateful to all the stakeholders’ participation and input to date and welcomes their feedback. The Recommendation Report can be found on the DOP web site.
Partnerships Build a Path in Clifton Park
Clifton Park Path
Over the last six months the City’s departments of Recreation and Parks and Transportation worked together, along with BGE, to construct a new path and install lighting between the REACH! Partnership building in Clifton Park and St. Lo Drive. The path improves access between the school, the surrounding neighborhoods, and amenities such as the Rita Church Community Center and a future football field in the park that is tentatively scheduled to open in 2023.
The National Park Service is studying whether to create a new National Park unit in Baltimore, and wants to hear from you!
As directed by Congress in 2019, the National Park Service is preparing a special resource study of Public School 103 (P.S. 103), the elementary school of former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, located at 1315 Division Street, Baltimore, Maryland, and any other resources in the neighborhood surrounding P.S. 103 that relate to the early life of Thurgood Marshall to evaluate their potential for inclusion within the National Park Service system. This property is a designated Baltimore City Landmark.
The public comment period is from April 1 - June 1, 2021, so time is running out! You can submit your comments on this project via the project website, by mail, or by phone. You can learn more about the study, watch videos of public presentations about the project, and provide your comments at this site: https://parkplanning.nps.gov/ps103
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