Author: gbridges

Baltimore is a rehab city and there are tons of housing stock available and ready to be transformed. But it’s not easy to turn a caterpillar into a butterfly. It takes drawings, permits and the whole permitting process to contend with – waiting for multiple inspectors to show up at various stages of the project. Many

Ever walked by a house and just stopped? That’s what happened as I walked past 2322 E. Baltimore Street in Patterson Park.

Rodgers Forge is a tree-lined community of tony rowhomes with residents heavily invested in its community and schools. Architecturally, this neighborhood is the very definition of homogeneous. The community, where slate roofs are the norm, has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 2009. Rodgers Forge Elementary and Dumbarton Middle School are rated 10 out of 10 and 9 out of 10, respectively, by greatschools.org.

Glen is located in the northwest section of Baltimore, just south of Fallstaff  (a neighborhood I hope to write about in the near future). Glen...

Baltimore has over two hundred neighborhoods, each with a personality of its own. Some neighborhoods are deserts of every description – food, opportunity, hope, and peace of mind. Still others thrive with diverse demography and a thick canopy of mature foliage. Ednor Gardens is the latter.

After years of being considered a food desert, Howard Park now has a major grocery store. Whatever your perceived notions of what a ShopRite might look like, put that aside and visit this one. It’s nice. Just browsing the aisles, I notice a gourmet-shop array of olive oils.

Harwood doesn’t need to pretend it’s something or somewhere else.  It’s fine where it is.  There are all sorts of reasons to live or invest in this neighborhood.

Every neighborhood in Baltimore reminds me of somewhere else I’ve lived.  Parts of Loch Raven Boulevard remind me of Elysian Fields in New Orleans.  Wyman...

This is not the kind of post I wanted to write.  I would have preferred writing about neighborhoods, businesses, and activities that, in some way,...