Three blighted Baltimore communities have been targeted by City Hall for upgrades under a new $80 million reinvestment fund.
Requests for proposals for redevelopment in Upton, Park Heights and Coldstream Homestead Montebello were released Friday by the Department of Housing and Community Development. The projects aim to produce affordable and market-rate housing units.
Mayor Catherine Pugh unveiled the RFPs and said they will help “create a new era of neighborhood investment” in areas of Baltimore that have been long-ignored.
In Park Heights, the plans call for more than 17 acres to be converted into mixed-use space. Upton’s RFP will focus on the 800 blocks of Harlem and Edmondson avenues where a total of 38 vacant and blighted city-owned rowhouses stand in need of a new life.