Baltimore has severed its ties with a Rotterdam architecture firm, contracted to develop the Middle Branch Waterfront Master Plan, after The Brew described the controversy that erupted over a photo that surfaced showing an employee and his family enacting the Dutch blackface tradition.

“West 8 is no longer involved with the project,” Lester Davis, spokesman for Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young, said this afternoon. “The initiative will move forward without the firm’s involvement.”

Davis would not say who the next designer might be or how much of a delay the firm’s exit will cause.

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