Worse than the worst Board of Ed meeting,” tweeted one of the more than 600 people in Baltimore’s War Memorial Building last night for a nearly five-hour hearing on Port Covington that was dominated by the developer, the Baltimore Development Corporation, city officials and City Council members questioning them.
The committee never brought up any of the 130 people signed up to speak, outside of a couple of panels at the end with representatives from established groups already criticizing the massive waterfront development seeking $660 million in city financing,
Instead, the crowd’s signs and attire had to speak for them: there were the teal-blue shirted members of the faith and community group BUILD and polo shirts emblazoned with union logos.
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