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Changing East Baltimore Together: Parallel Construction
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Changing East Baltimore Together. BUILDING BALTIMORE'S NEW EAST SIDE. I'm not an obsessed railway enthusiast, a trainspotter, but the associated sights and sounds always command my attention. Serpentine tracks help shape our piano. Whizzing by at warp speeds so common in Japan, capable of rocketing us to daily jobs in D.C. and Phillie and even NYC, but no matter - they still confirm the sloganed scrim. Stating "My New East Side is Innovative" or "Vital" or "Exciting" and so on. Donna Beth Joy Shapiro.
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Changing East Baltimore Together: Happy Father's Day
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Changing East Baltimore Together. BUILDING BALTIMORE'S NEW EAST SIDE. Last month's 35th anniversary without my daddy was the first I was not distraught or depressed and I attribute it to my job at EBDI. Being busy doing something so important quite simply crowded out the pain. Daddy, you sure did know how to have fun and corral others into having fun watching you having fun - and we sure could use more of that levity today. Thank you for being you and cluing me in on how to be me. Donna Beth Joy Shapiro.
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Changing East Baltimore Together: What Is Home?
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Changing East Baltimore Together. BUILDING BALTIMORE'S NEW EAST SIDE. Home is where you grew up. It's the dining room table your friends and family crowd around for birthdays and holidays and Scrabble. Home is getting knocked over by the fragrance of a chicken roasting in October or roses tumbling over the trellis in May. House is the envelope, the four walls - Patterson Park vernacular and regimented or Reservoir Hill drop-dead over-the-top - it doesn't matter. It's just the vessel. Smalltimores/Happine...
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Changing East Baltimore Together: Mending Our Quilt
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Changing East Baltimore Together. BUILDING BALTIMORE'S NEW EAST SIDE. A glimpse of East Baltimore from the roof of the vacant, splendid Art Deco. Six-story Highlandtown Middle School. Reinforces the well-loved notion of our city as a patchwork quilt of neighborhoods, as compelling from above as it is at street level. From on high, it's all sprawling, colorful geometry; on the ground, a familiar, comforting vernacular, even in areas disquieted with dysfunction. These houses and their residents. For more i...
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Changing East Baltimore Together: Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer
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Changing East Baltimore Together. BUILDING BALTIMORE'S NEW EAST SIDE. Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer. Actually, it's more like Donna got run over by a Range Rover. Looking both ways - heck, any way - before crossing streets in our bull's eye has been unnecessary for so long that it was entirely my bad for practically getting flattened. Donna Beth Joy Shapiro. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). For more information about East Baltimore Development Inc., please go to www.ebdi.org. Smalltimores/Happine...
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Changing East Baltimore Together: Who We Are
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Changing East Baltimore Together. BUILDING BALTIMORE'S NEW EAST SIDE. I had planned to begin this blog yesterday on Maryland's Arbor Day. We're about to make history with our green rehabs and the symbolism was irresistible. I knew what I wanted to say, but I hadn't come up with a blog title, or should I say it hadn't come down - and I invite you to interpret that however you like - I'm not religious, but I'm full of faith. Both the relocatees and the ones still residing on the preservation blocks - bore ...
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Changing East Baltimore Together: Urban Fields of Green
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Changing East Baltimore Together. BUILDING BALTIMORE'S NEW EAST SIDE. Urban Fields of Green. All the newfangled light bulbs. High-tech solar hot water systems. Can never stamp out the carbon footprint. Resulting from the plowing under of farm after farm and the aftermath of this ultimate form of anti-green violence. Developers seek a blank page, but that's also available in the center of Baltimore City - witness more-fabulous-by-the-minute Harbor East. Modular housing construction in the Oliver. And my j...
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Changing East Baltimore Together: A Walk In The Park
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Changing East Baltimore Together. BUILDING BALTIMORE'S NEW EAST SIDE. A Walk In The Park. That's not how one might have described a stroll through the EBDI footprint for the last number of decades - until yesterday. For the past week, in final preparation for today's biotech building opening. I stepped outside a few hours later, completely startled by the newly-laid lush living carpet and tall blooming cherry trees that implausibly emerged from the earth. It was just like a movie set, except that thi...
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