Sun coverage: A neighborhood abandoned

Sale of old brewery OK'd

City officials approved yesterday the sale of the American Brewery site -- long an eyesore and symbol of a dilapidated East Baltimore neighborhood -- whose redevelopment is expected to help spark a revival.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

Photographer learns pictures are matter of trust

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

Sun Special Report

Building on fragile hope

A Neighborhood Abandoned Part 2

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.

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.