There is a parking garage on Read St, just east of Park Ave. It is only accessed by patrons of the garage, with remote control entrance for one's car.

Many of us use the informal system of paying to park on private property which are often found on alley streets, like Tyson, Morton, or Ploy

There is a small gated outside parking lot on Park Ave and Centre street. diagonally across from the Walters Museum.

Not to be too negative, but you do realize that the company which you are to work for is the cause for the decay in the area where it stands? Does it not seem curious that Hopkins Medical system occupies more land than many small cities? Yet the area immediately around the complex is in decay. This is because the Medical center's actions and in-actions do not encourage developers from investing in the same immediate area. Why, because in a year or two the Medical center, will consume that same land, in their ever increasing campus footprint. For 70+ years they have clear-cut huge swaths of East Baltimore, removing, for ever, thousands of taxable properties. Its like a black hole.

It can only be a good thing if the lower blocks of Howard are able to grab the coattails of this Centre street rebirth. Sadly the wild meandering of the light rail discourages all traffic flow. I am not against transit over cars, but this stretch of road is terrible for both. We have seen that it has discouraged renovation for decades. Additionally the side streets are used by commuters to exit the city, and these streets are also hampered by decayed roadbeds and crazy traffic patterns. If parking could be had near but not on Howard, it might be a reasonable answer to rebirth.

The thumbnail pictures were of no value.

I hope the new building will not clash with the present building, though the present ugly parking lot already does.

There was a nice bar-restarurant on Pratt St across from the entrance to the RR museum.

I travel past this area every weekday. The Squashwise signs have been up for months, but nothing seems to be happening, other than the building is being targeted for graffiti. Its great to see the building on Ross and Howard, (next to dog park) is being renovated. This spot was the site of the first Hopkins University. It was small, only about 5-6 buildings. The students lived in rooms rented in the large homes on Howard, and the Market at the top of Howard & Read was busy with people buying their daily needs.

The land that the bus station now sits, was the walled garden and part of the Visitation Convent, and Girls school. The complex stretched from Howard across to Park Ave.

I live near your location. It is good. Parking can be found. There is a parking garage on Read St and small time property owners rent space on their property, sometimes it is where an alley street once stood. My main complaint of the area, is the ever increasing noise. As bigger buildings are creeping in, their HVAC systems can sound like a jet engine running 24/7. This is esp true of MD General Hospital. Uni Balt is on the rise with its noise pollution. The Stafford Hotel Apts have a squeaky HVAC system which whines away.

I remember, as a kid in the 60s, playing with a neighbors large old floor model radio. It had several odd frequencies which were labeled HAM. You would hear very spooky things on it, esp the number readers. I was told that these were secret codes which were slowly read out loud. Also Morse code and some one reading ship's coordinates.

On a similar note, when I lived a year in Philly, there was a lot of talk about renegade radio stations, run by amateurs, from their house. They would set up an antenna and broadcast different things. One was for an Hispanic neighborhood. I don't hear about these in Baltimore.

In 2001, I bought an 1835 3 floor row house which had been a shop on the first floor since the 1920s. (and the 1920s was the last time it had been lived in) There was virtually no electric and only a single toilet/sink. It took me $70,000 and mostly my own labor to bring it up to a nice livable house. I hired a plumber and electrician to do the major plumbing & ele, I have filled in some additional since. I figure it would be about 150K to do the same today, with less self work. I still need a new roof, though I have a paint on elastomeric roof which I re-coat every other year. My house was neglected, but not wrecked. it was a time capsule. My first row house, in West Balt was in better condition, even though it had been a rental for about 10 yrs. It was 2 level. I think I put about 50K into it. But that was in the 80s.

It is all doable. Where the difficulty arises is having a team which can assess the needs and a team to do the work.Developers don't want to do that. they want to clear cut and build new stick houses. Small time flippers want to do the cosmetics and be out in a few weeks. I think another real problem is all the hassle in getting funding. The banking industry, was part of the reason for the decay, they do not like the model of restoration and its hidden costs, they do not like the whole idea of working in what they see as the bad lands. If government guarantee for loans could be secured, as was the case with the dollar houses then there would be a greater interest. Also too few Americans have any idea of how to do basic repairs. Even an undesirable paint color can nix a house sale these days.

It is curious that people in the DC orbit have always been uninterested in Baltimore. I am from MoCo, and my family have only been to Baltimore a handful of times since I moved here in the early 80s.

In the old days a hack was a cab driver

Throw in Howard St from 395 to Read street. Insane it has not been repaired since the light rail went in.

Please do some history research Baltirmore COUNTY was a shake down center, esp when former vice President of the USA (Spiro Agnew) was Balt County exec. When Agnew was chosen to be VP, under Nixon, he set up shop in DC shaking down all contractors who wanted to do business with the fed government. He was about to be arrested, but it happened at the same time as when Nixon resigned, and the FBI feared Agnew would avoid arrest if he became SCOTUS.

The people of Balt County NEVER mention the long list of corrupt politicians they have let into office. Too busy pointing the finger at the City.

The local news makes a profit off of keeping the suburbanites in a constant state of fear. American cities have always had a crime problem, so did Rome. It is hard to know how to give a picture of life in the city as it differs from neighborhood to neighborhood. People think the loss of population is all due to crime. Much actually has to do with a government which is not able to improve basic city services or control outside entities which own most of the decayed property. Many of these owners are living in the nearby leafy suburbs, and own decayed property for money laundering or as slumlords. We do have an underclass which is more like the few kids in a classroom who are able to derail the teacher. It only takes a few to do disrupt. If you travel through the wealth belt of Roland Park, Bolton Hill, Guilford, or Homeland, you will not see bars on the mansions. I take this as a sign that the problems tend to be in the underclass neighborhoods and between segments of the poor who are having turf wars. The ills of Baltimore can be traced back to the post WWII actions by the federal and state government which ghettoized the poor blacks of the country's cities. Their actions were to use federal money to build the suburbs, using city infrastructure, like sewer, water, electricity, and not allow federal dollars to be used to rebuild the cities which had suffered 20 years of decay during the depression and war.

If you were to locate in Federal Hill, South Baltimore, or Ridgley's Delight, you would be near I-95 and have access to I-97

Woodela on Bel Air Rd is open Sundays. I think it has a greater variety than Hoehn's (which I always found my way to stop when in that area)

Parks Cleaners and Tailors. 859 N Howard St. The gal there made a set of curtains for me, with my fabric.

Penn & Pratt Restaurant -663 W Pratt (closes about 3 or 3:30pm)

Overlea Diner

Wymen Park Restaurant (under new name?)

Sadly we see the over all list is smaller than in the past. I think this type eatery is just as important as the more posh places.

This means that the line is not properly angled, and is not fully clearing. Many historic buildings in Europe have exterior soil stacks. So the concept has been proven to work. Could also mean that people are putting too much TP in at one flush or other items , like Kitty litter, lint from washers, and other unmentionables.

You know the public has a weapon in its control to throw terror into Southwest? Stop using them. If the public does not use Southwest for 3 months it will send a signal that the public is voting with its feet.

The 1970s was the first and last time the fed gov was throwing money at Baltimore. Many many great buildings, in West Balt were demolished and replaced with civic or social buildings. Rather than re-purposing the old, developers wanted a clean slate onto which they could lift their leg and leave their mark.

The Dollar house program worked because there was federal guarantees to the lending institutions that they would get their loans paid. Lending institutions generally will not loan you money for a run down building. There were, and may still be some private non profits which will aid you in getting a loan for the property and a 2nd mortgage for renovations. I bought my first house going through Neighborhood Housing. (That was in 1986)

I do not know all the details about Federal Hill. Though I do remember hearing chatter in the White Coffee Pot, (1970s) in SoBo, that at least some of what took place in Fed Hill was some back room deal making and possibly with some developers. The were two factions. One group wanted more to be bulldozed and they had no problem with I-395 gashing its way into the city, nor the FED bank which takes a huge chunk of property. Then there were the true preservationists who want loans for people to make quality repairs and not house flippers gobbling up fed & State funding, while doing shoddy work.

Puddles are known to be 6-8 feet deep.

Every time a home repair van opens its doors, they jettison a spray of nails or speed screws. Do not park in the contractor's area of the Home Depot parking lot.

The upshot is- Because some people can't follow the rules or be nice - all must suffer the consequences.

I am not shedding any tears for Hopkins. They charge what they will whether people can pay. Just look at the fact that they have never ending campus expansion. You don't get all those new buildings for free.