eyes on baltimore

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,...

Station North is evolving.  It didn’t start last year, or even the year before.  It started with baby steps, picking up speed slowly.  It didn’t receive...

The snow stopped.  Next came the sound of people shoveling after snowplows have barricaded their cars behind dirty-white levees.  The other sounds go something like...

Imaginative Rehabs Design Let’s face it.  Most rehabbers are motivated by profit.  And that’s okay, but there is no excuse for slapdash workmanship, builder-grade everything,...