Here's a primer on some of the development projects discussed by M.J. 'Jay' Brodie of the Baltimore Development Corp.:
Upper Park Heights, a Northwest Baltimore neighborhood that is the focus of new development headed up by Cordish Co., which said last month that it was acquiring Reisterstown Road Plaza, a covered mall that opened in 1962 but then fell on hard times. Home Depot recently opened its second Baltimore City store on the 50-acre site. Other businesses include the first Applebee's chain restaurant in Baltimore, a Giant supermarket and a Marshalls department store. BDC has provided $600,000 for the Home Depot project.
Pimlico Race Course, the home of the Preakness that is being acquired by Magna Entertainment Corp. The Canadian company agreed in July to buy a controlling interest in the Maryland Jockey Club, which owns Pimlico and Laurel race tracks.
Belvedere Square, a long-neglected shopping and office complex near York Road and Northern Parkway in North Baltimore. City planners hope to transform the development into a renewed economic anchor for the city. The estimated cost of the project is about $16 million.
Better Waverly Giant, a grocery store being proposed for the Northeast neighborhood by the Landover-based Giant Food Inc. chain that is expected to breathe new life into the community -- replacing substandard houses and a long-vacant Super Fresh with a new building that will provide a needed service to residents and attract new businesses.
Old Town Mall, a troubled retail area east of downtown that is the subject of revitalization talks between the city, Peterson Cos., a developer based in Fairfax, Va., and Safeway Inc., the grocery-store chain. The plan is to build a 55,000-square-foot supermarket in the community.
Cross Street Market, a 157-year-old city-owned retail institution in Federal Hill in South Baltimore. It has about 30 vendor stalls, and a local developer, Patrick Turner, hopes to build a 30,000-square-foot grocery store over the market.
Light Street, a South Baltimore retail corridor that has been without a grocery store since Eddie's of Light Street closed in 2000.
Eastern Avenue, the Highlandtown neighborhood is placing its urban-renewal hopes on the new $8.5 million Enoch Pratt Free Library Southeast Anchor Library tentatively scheduled to open in 2005 at Eastern and Conkling Street.
Whitman, Requardt and Associates, an engineering firm that moved its 360 employees last month to a new waterfront building and garage in Fells Point with the help of the city, which wanted to keep it from moving to the suburbs. It had outgrown its offices in South Charles Village.
Morgan Stanley & Co., the New York-based brokerage with an office in Baltimore. The company said in October that it would build a major operations office on the Fells Point waterfront at the new Bond Street Wharf that would create 150 jobs. The operation would be a back-office processing center for institutional securities in a 30,000-square-foot space overlooking the Inner Harbor. The state has offered taxpayer-backed incentives to lure Morgan Stanley.
Belvedere Square, a long-neglected shopping and office complex near York Road and Northern Parkway in North Baltimore. City planners hope to transform the development into a renewed economic anchor for the city. The estimated cost of the project is about $16 million.