BALTIMORE — Park Heights is getting the much-needed love it deserves. Mayor Brandon Scott announced the neighborhood has been added as the ninth Baltimore Main Street District.
Baltimore’s Main Streets program stands on the four-point model of economic vitality: design, promotion, and organization. In practice, this initiative will boost the economy of Park Heights by providing support to businesses and community development, enhancing the revitalization party already going on.
“This designation is not only a result of the work that’s already been done, it will help unlock resources and support to ensure that the progress continues in a way that benefits all Park Heights residents,” says Scott. “As a product of the neighborhood, I know that Park Heights’ greatest asset is its people, and I could not be prouder of those who are working every single day to make it the best version of itself."
City Hall says a number of projects are already underway in Park Heights.
- Renaissance Row [lnks.gd]: 84 affordable rental units and office space
- Woodland Gardens I [lnks.gd]: 63 affordable intergenerational units
- Woodland Gardens II [lnks.gd]: 75 affordable senior units
- Cold Spring Lane Apartments [lnks.gd]: 163 affordable rental units in a transit-oriented development adjacent to the West Cold Spring Metro SubwayLink Station
- 4710 Park Heights Avenue [lnks.gd]: 100 affordable senior units
- A $20 million branch [lnks.gd] of the Enoch Pratt Free Library that will replace a branch that closed in 2002
- $18 mm in BCRP investments, like:
- The CC Jackson Park Expansion, and
- The renovations at Towanda Grantley Recreation Center [lnks.gd], James D Gross Recreation Center [lnks.gd], and the historic Langston Hughes Community Center
- Two public schools, Pimlico Elementary-Middle School and Arlington Elementary School, that were recently overhauled under the State’s 21st Century Schools Program
- The $400 million redevelopment of Pimlico Race Track
