The Kevin Plank-backed development firm working on Port Covington reportedly reached a deal with the community on affordable housing, but not all nonprofits are onboard.
According to the Baltimore Business Journal, Sagamore Development set a Wednesday morning press conference to announce that 20 percent of the housing will be affordable housing. That would amount to 2,800 units on the South Baltimore peninsula that will be home to a new Under Armour campus and a veritable city-within-a-city.
It was billed as an agreement with community groups, but not all of those orgs are onboard. Around the same time the report came out on Friday, groups including People Organized for Responsible Transformation, Tax Subsidies and TIFs and Build Up Baltimore issued a statement saying that issues beyond affordable housing were not addressed.
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