State Center serves as a physical barrier, blocking the economic resurgence that has transformed downtown from moving toward impoverished West Baltimore. He is also responsible for sidelining the redevelopment deal negotiated by his predecessor. In 2016, he persuaded the Board of Public Works to file a lawsuit canceling its redevelopment deal with Baltimore-based Ekistics. AD“The Governor is long on details for cleaning out State Center, but short on any description of the future,” Edney said in a statement. As with the State Center project, Hogan criticized the Red Line deal as ill conceived and unworkable.

Source: Washington Post November 26, 2019 18:35 UTC