Plan
Introduction
The State Center redevelopment offers the rare chance to build on the tremendous economic power of the State’s office presence in Baltimore and knit together existing transit, cultural, institutional, university, and neighborhood assets.
With its proximity to downtown and direct access to local and regional transportation networks, State Center is an ideal location for the development of a uniquely vibrant Transit Orientated Development (TOD). State Center also offers the potential to spur further investment in the surrounding neighborhoods of Midtown and West Baltimore.
Having completed infill TODs in urban settings across the country, and with an unswerving commitment to stakeholder engagement and comprehensive community revitalization, The Partnership is ideally suited to create a successful, authentic urban community where the State Center office buildings now stand.
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State Center Summary-6-07
This is a brief overview of the work to date, through June 2007, with a description of the due-dilgence activities and the CityScaping process. This document was distrbuted to the Neighborhood Alliance prior to the EDUCATE sessions. |
Project Status
This Spring, the State Center development team will launch a community planning process for State Center that will focus on getting the participation and buy-in from the surrounding neighborhoods and stakeholder institutions. This effort will build off of the work that the State did, first in creating the State Center Development Alliance and then articulating its vision in the Draft State Center Transit-Orientated Development Strategy.
Prior to the launch of the community planning process, the State Center development team has devoted the lion’s share of its energies and resources on due diligence activities so as to better understand the site and building conditions. Theses activities have included a building assessment [I’d like to be able to link to this document -Ed], preliminary environmental studies, utility surveying and the compilation of available geo-technical reporting. Having this information provides us all with a much clearer picture of the site’s opportunities and challenges and are a vitally necessary step in the development process.
Alliance Goal Statement
The goal of the Alliance is to ensure that the future State Center Development has a positive impact on our surrounding communities. We will achieve this through active participation and involvement in the planning, program development, design, investment and implementation processes.
The State Center Neighborhoods Alliance consists of Residents, Businesses and
Institutions of Bolton Hill, Charles North, Heritage Crossing, Madison Park, Marble Hill,
McCulloh Homes/Spencer Gardens, Mount Vernon, Seton Hill and Upton.
Click here for the April 19, 2006 goal statement of the State Center Neighborhoods Alliance.