Sun coverage: A neighborhood abandoned

November 16, 2008

Changes a long time brewing

The American Brewery's gates swing open this afternoon for an event that has been 35 years in the making.

August 18, 2008

Sun follow-up

Splendor restored

Workers removed scaffolding from the old American Brewery's towers, revealing a 19th century exuberance of restored copper, slate, brick and brownstone.

August 5, 2006

Sun follow-up

Grant sought to clear block

One of the most decayed blocks in the deteriorated area around East Baltimore's long-vacant American Brewery appears destined for demolition in the not-too-distant future.

July 16, 2006

In a reporter's view

Last October, I attended a street-side wake on North Bradford Street for a man and a teenager who were shot to death there. I made the visit while reporting for articles about the blocks around the vacant American Brewery building in East Baltimore.

July 16, 2006

Finding a Way

In recent decades, hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested in Baltimore redevelopment, and those investments - combined with positive economic trends - have sparked a wave of privately financed revitalization in neighborhoods across the city. From Locust Point to Charles Village and Hampden to Highlandtown, housing prices have soared and commercial development has followed.

July 2, 2006

Paul Moore: Neighborhood 'abandoned' but not ignored

Last Sunday, The Sun devoted much of its front page and three full inside pages to a detailed examination of life in an East Baltimore neighborhood devastated by the social and economic ills that haunt areas of the city, despite encouraging evidence of regeneration along the Inner Harbor and other neighborhoods. On Monday, a second substantial Page 1 piece - with three additional pages inside - assessed efforts at recovery.

July 16, 2006

Readers speak on the Web

Here's what readers have been saying online about The Sun's American Brewery project and what might be done to help the neighborhood:

July 16, 2006

Photographer learns pictures are matter of trust

Ifelt like a foreigner. And carrying two expensive cameras around, I simply didn't fit in.

June 26, 2006

Sun Special Report

Building on fragile hope

A Neighborhood Abandoned Part 2

June 26, 2006

Investment, but then a displacement

As depressed as the blocks around the brewery are, some neighborhood activists are already worrying about a down side to new investment: the possible displacement of longtime residents.

June 25, 2006

Sun special report: Part 1

A neighborhood abandoned

Wearing work boots and carrying flashlights on a spring day last year, a band of architects and developers picked their way through the dim interior of the American Brewery. They looked like archaeologists combing through an ancient ruin, which, in some ways, is exactly what the brewery is.