Is Westport about to become Westworld?

A slaughterhouse has submitted an application to the City to set up shop at 2701 Manokin Street in Westport, several blocks from a 43-acre section of waterfront property purchased by one of Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank’s real estate arms last year.

If approved, the slaughterhouse would be the latest of several in Baltimore, a throwback to the Wild West days evoked by the robot-populated amusement park in HBO’s sci-fi series, “Westworld.”

Others, according to deputy city planning director Laurie Feinberg, include Holly Poultry on Wicomico Street and the George G. Ruppersberger & Sons slaughterhouse in West Baltimore, which sometimes makes headlines when bulls escape.

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