WYPR (Joel McCord) featured the Reimagine Middle Branch Plan. Insight on the Plan provided by SBGP (Brad Rogers), Cherry Hill Development Corporation (Michael Middleton), and the Environmental Justice Journalism Initiative (Rona Kobell & Donzell Brown).
The residents of the neighborhoods around the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River have long felt hemmed in by highways and railroads — cut off from the rest of Baltimore City. Now, a plan is emerging to turn the area from what one community leader called a “dumping ground” to what another described as “Baltimore’s next great waterfront.” This isn’t the first plan to transform these communities. It’s just one of many that dates back more than a century to the days of the Olmstead Company, founded by urban planner Frederick Law Olmstead, none of which have gone much of anywhere.
“So, we had the 1904 plan, and then we had the 1977 plan,” recounts Brad Rogers, executive director of the South Baltimore Gateway Partnership. “And then we had the 1997 plan and the 2007 plan. Now we’re really doing it, it’s really happening right now.”