Baltimore’s Inner Harbor was the model, but communications were garbled. I briefly visited Genoa and then, back in Baltimore, at City Hall, Walter Sondheim, adviser to his friend, Mayor William Donald Schaefer. The remarkably likable Sondheim was an educational civil rights pioneer, one of the lead organizers of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor and downtown renewal and our overall civic guru. Its completion or construction would help springboard activity eastward into the vacant parking lots of Inner Harbor East. “Walter Cronkite.

Source: Daily Sun December 29, 2025 20:37 UTC