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Front and Center: a 5-Year Equity Plan for Central Baltimore AUGUST 2017 A 5-year Equity Plan for Central Baltimore TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary Chapter 1: Introduction A. Purpose of Plan B. Central Baltimore Partnership C. Homewood Community Partners Initiative D. Progress To Date E. Why a New Plan F. Making Equity Front and Center G. Planning Process: 1. Front and Center Plan Goal 2. Phase 1: Understanding Existing Conditions 3. Phase 2: Preliminary Recommendations 4. Phase 3: Finalizing the Front and Center Plan Chapter 2: Planning Context H. Central Baltimore History I. Existing Conditions Chapter 3: Recommendations and Implementation Plan J. Recommendations • Social Fabric: Youth and Families • Economic Mobility: Workforce Development and Opportunities • Community Health: Physical and Mental Health, Safety, Public Space • Housing Access: Preserving Affordability, Improving Quality, Expanding Choices 2 CREDITS Planning Team: Keswick Multi-Care Center Joe McNeely, Planning Consultant Lovely Lane United Methodist Church Neighborhood Design Center, Design Consultant Maryland Bay Construction Maryland New Directions Planning Partners: Mosaic Community Services, Inc. 29th Street Community Center Open Works AHC, Inc. Greater Baltimore - Workforce Program People’s Homesteading Group Annie E. Casey Foundation Strong City Baltimore Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers Telesis Baltimore Corporation (ABAG) Wells Fargo Regional Foundation Baltimore City Department of Housing and Community Development Data Work Group Members: Baltimore City Department of Planning Assistant Commissioner, Maryland Department of Baltimore City YouthWorks Housing and Community Development, Baltimore Baltimore Heritage Central District Planner, Comprehensive Planning, Baltimore Housing Upgrades to Benefit Seniors Baltimore City Department of Planning Behavioral Health Systems Baltimore Director, Baltimore Integration Partnership Boundary Square Apartments Director, Community Development Research, BYKE Collective Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond CT Management Division Chief, Comprehensive Planning, Greater Greenmount Community Association Baltimore Department of Planning Greater Remington Improvement Association Neighborhood Revitalization, Greenmount Recreation Center Strong City Baltimore Greenmount West Community Association Housing Authority of Baltimore City (HABC) Institute for Behavioral Resources Johns Hopkins 21st Centuries Cities Initiative Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health J. Van Story Branch Apartments Jubilee Baltimore 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Central Baltimore is a vibrant group of ten Central Baltimore through a collaborative approach. neighborhoods at the heart of Baltimore City. Central But as large scale development gains momentum, CBP Baltimore’s residential areas are conveniently located must ensure the inclusivity of Central Baltimore’s near Penn Station, a national transit hub, and flanked revitalization, especially in the six neighborhoods still by commercial corridors on N Charles Street, 25th experiencing economic challenges: Barclay, Charles Street, and North Avenue. Baltimore is a “city of North, Greenmount West, Harwood, Old Goucher, neighborhoods”, and each of the ten Central Baltimore Remington. neighborhoods has its own unique character. To develop sound strategies for equitable development Since its founding in 2012, the Central Baltimore and integrate them thoroughly into our broad Partnership (CBP) has facilitated major reinvestment action plan, CBP embarked on a community-led into the neighborhoods of Central Baltimore. comprehensive planning process supported by the Approximately $800 million has been invested in Wells Fargo Regional Foundation National Pilot redevelopment projects, resulting in the construction Neighborhood Planning Grant. This planning process of 500 new housing units and the restoration of 250 resulted in the Front and Center Plan: A Comprehensive vacant homes. Central Baltimore’s transformation Equity Strategy for Central Baltimore. The Plan is highlighted by neighborhoods like Greenmount improves access to economic and social opportunity in West and Charles North: more than 50% vacant in the six Target Neighborhoods to ensure that Central 2000, these neighborhoods now make up the dynamic Baltimore residents can remain in their communities Station North Arts and Entertainment District. and benefit from reinvestment momentum. To achieve this vision, the Front and Center Plan complements the CBP’s strategic plan, known as the Homewood 2012 HCPI Action Plan by improving youth and family Community Partners Initiative (HCPI): A Call to services, workforce opportunities, community health, Action, envisions Central Baltimore as a vibrant urban and housing through the following recommendations: center nestled in a livable community. Adopted in 2012, the HCPI Action Plan guides CBP to improve 4 Youth and Families: Increase access Like the 2012 HCPI Action Plan, implementation to existing youth programs; improve of the Front and Center Plan will require the intergenerational engagement; collaboration of many stakeholders, such as increase job readiness; and develop neighborhood associations, local businesses, major parent engagement platforms. property owners, nonprofits, and government entities. Central Baltimore Partnership will leverage its role Workforce Development: Coordinate as a convener to guide these stakeholders toward job training with job growth; support the realization of an inclusive, equitable Central residents through the employment Baltimore. process; remove employment barriers; and foster internship opportunities. Community Health: Mobilize the expertise of local health providers to develop an intervention strategy for improving health outcomes; improve coordination of existing health services; pursue short term, highly focused health interventions that are simple and ready to implement. Housing: Help elderly residents safely maintain their homes and age in place; preserve and improve housing affordability in Central Baltimore. 5 Purpose of Plan Geographical Focus of the ten neighborhoods covered by the Homewood The Front and Center Plan will improve access to Community Partners Initiative (HCPI) Plan: A Call to economic and social opportunity and improve the Action. (Found in Appendix A). The six neighborhoods quality of life in six Central Baltimore neighborhoods, in focus - referred to as Target Neighborhoods in this so that all Central Baltimore residents can remain Plan - are Barclay, Charles North, Greenmount West, and thrive in their communities and benefit from our Harwood, Old Goucher, and Remington (see Figure reinvestment momentum. This Plan encompasses six 3 for a map of these neighborhoods). 6 Central Baltimore Partnership households over ten years, leveraging public-private The Central Baltimore Partnership (CBP) is a hub, partnerships to create safe neighborhoods, improving and a convener, of interconnected but sometimes and creating affordable and market-rate housing, independent efforts and networks. Our catchment eliminating vacant properties, revitalizing commercial area boasts a collaborative spirit among neighborhood districts, improving public schools, and advancing associations, private businesses, major property economic mobility for low-income and minority owners, and non-profit organizations that comprise residents. a well-respected and multi-faceted partnership. In Progress Since 2012 2012, Joe McNeely, Executive Director of CBP, led the ten HCPI neighborhoods through an extensive Using a grassroots, collaborative approach, CBP has community-led planning process commissioned by worked with over 100 partners to make significant Johns Hopkins University. This effort culminated progress toward realizing the 2012 HCPI Action Plan. in the 2012 HCPI Action Plan. Upon its completion, For example, the vacancy rate in Central Baltimore CBP adopted the 2012 HCPI Action Plan as our has decreased by 53 percent and the population work strategy and expanded our boundaries to increased by 1,000 households since 2011. Between incorporate all ten neighborhoods. This 5-year Plan 2014 and 2016, 765 new housing units opened in included 29 recommendations that all continue our neighborhoods, including 500 newly-constructed to guide our work (a summary of the 2012 HCPI units and 265 rehabilitated, previously vacant units. Action Plan recommendations is in Appendix B). To create or improve neighborhood gathering Recommendations include attracting 3,000 new places and support grassroots problem-solving, CBP Residents can rent garden plots in the Sisson Street Lot in Remington. This project was funded by the Central Baltimore Telesis Baltimore Corporation’s mixed-income apartments Partnership’s Community Spruce-Up Program. Photo Credit: in Barclay, completed Summer 2017. Photo Credit: Telesis Central Baltimore Partnership. Baltimore Corporation. 7 1. Vacant Building Notice, 2010-2016 Between 2010 and today, the ten HCPI neighborhoods together went from 591 to 280 vacants in this period, a 53% decrease. 300 Barclay 250 200 Greenmount West 150 100 Harwood Remington 50 Charles North 0 Figure 1. 1/1/2010 1/1/2011 1/1/2012 1/1/2013 1/1/2014 1/1/2015 1/1/2016 launched a community improvement grant program: $2 million. The Community Spruce-Up Grant Program A Public Safety Task Force was established to (generously funded by Johns Hopkins University and convene the commanders of the three Police Districts Maryland Department of Housing and Community that serve Central Baltimore, community leaders and Development).
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