The former Read’s drug store building at Howard and Lexington streets will become a new home for the Spotlighters Theatre, with an exhibit about the building’s civil rights history, if Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake approves a proposal submitted by Spotlighters.

The board of the Baltimore Development Corporation, which oversees west side revitalization efforts for the city, met in closed session today to consider a proposal to transform the vacant Read’s building at 123 North Howard Street, now a city-owned property, to the “Audrey Herman Community Arts Center,” named after the theater’s founder.

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