Marlyland County halts field trips to Baltimore

Gilligan

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Seems the prudent thing to do...especially since the epidemic of violence is prevalent even in the Inner Harbor area where most field trips are headed.
 

vraiblonde

Board Mommy
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It's sad to see B'more go that way. It used to be a great city, with character and culture and interesting things to do. Now it's just another roached out ghetto.

Thanks, Progs.
 

TPD

the poor dad
We gave Baltimore another chance a couple of weeks ago. We went to the Baltimore Arena to see the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Stayed overnight about 3 blocks from the arena in a Marriott property, had dinner at a nice steakhouse. Hell no - Baltimore's chances have run out with us! Not a good experience-will just leave it at stereotypical...
 

officeguy

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I'll chaperone a school trip to the science museum next week. It's in the green-zone, and we'll be out before zombie hour, so I think we'll be ok.
I do have occasional business with government offices Baltimore. You have to identify yourself to the security guard at the razor wire secured parking lot before you can even park . They then escort you to the building. I decided to switch to phone conferences after that.
 

spr1975wshs

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I swore off Baltimore after the Freddie Gray Riots!

I was at the UMMC for an inpatient procedure related to the cancer and left the city about an hour before the crowds started forming.

No need to go back there as my surgeon, who would have followed up, is now at Rutgers.
But, last visit with the oncologist showed no recurrence (am now on every 6-months, instead of 4-months, monitoring).
 

SamSpade

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It's sad to see B'more go that way. It used to be a great city,

Never really saw that.

Years ago, during the Bicentennial, I had a friend who wrote to me often about the whole downtown transformation - everything from the Inner Harbor all the way around to Fells Point.
It would be the premier East Coast city. Back then, there were attempts to preserve the row houses by offering them at fire sale prices - as little as a dollar - if money was put into them to renovate.

Forty years later, it's worse. I don't know what happened, but if Baltimore was ever a great city, it doesn't seem to have happened in my lifetime.
 

Gilligan

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Back then, there were attempts to preserve the row houses by offering them at fire sale prices - as little as a dollar - if money was put into them to renovate.

I worked on one the early "showcase" projects of that nature; Ridgley's Delight. Aesthetically, that neighborhood turned out very nice. Financially..it was a disaster. The basic premise or model was deeply flawed and the end result was some nice housing sold at a subsidized loss and still with many residual problems associated with trying to re-use old brick structures that should have ALL been torn down and replaced instead.

So since the economics were bad...so was any real progress on repeating that project on a grander scale.

Baltimore City made it all worse, of course, by requiring us to pay our own people "scale" wages and to hire a certain number of (thoroughly worthless) laborers for each phase out of local labor halls.

I also worked on the Inner Harbor projects..both of them. The first, after the razing of the old warehouses, an open park. The second, landscaping the area again after the Inner Harbor buildings were completed. All in all, the inner harbor area was very nice in the years immediately following the completion of the several projects that make it all up late 70s through 80s) , including the convention center, aquarium, etc. Now...it is starting to look "tired"...even without being infested by rabid youths committing crimes.
 
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Freefaller

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Not only is the city unsafe because of their soaring crime / murder rate, they have recently removed historic statues thereby removing some of the "cultural exhibits" to visit.
 
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