Critics raised a red flag about race and class earlier this summer when they saw the use of the term “Creative Class” to describe the future residents of Port Covington in the developer’s request for a half-billion dollar financing subsidy. This demographic category, they noted, has been found to be only about 8% black.
Crying foul, Jon Laria, attorney for Sagamore Development, Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank’s development arm, fired back at a June hearing, saying the group is “firmly committed” to making sure Port Covington is inclusive.
Laria said critics of the mixed-use waterfront development project Sagamore is proposing in South Baltimore were taking “some numbers from a spreadsheet” in the developer’s 535-page Tax Increment Financing request “out of context.”
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