As residents of Sandtown-Winchester and Harlem Park prepare to launch a new effort to revitalize their community, one area leader says he’s afraid the Scott administration is making decisions that will undermine the initiative before it even gets underway.
A $60,000 Community Catalyst Grant was awarded to guide future redevelopment of the two West Baltimore neighborhoods that were the center of protests triggered by the 2015 death of Freddie Gray while in police custody.
Expected to start this spring, the community-led planning effort represents an attempt to build on the $100 million redevelopment push led by James Rouse’s Enterprise Foundation when Kurt Schmoke was mayor in the 1990s.
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