Downtown Baltimore

Downtown Baltimore City Centre
Neighborhood
Looking West on Fayette Street towards Downtown
Downtown Baltimore City Centre
Coordinates: 39°17′22″N 76°37′00″W / 39.289444°N 76.616667°W / 39.289444; -76.616667Coordinates: 39°17′22″N 76°37′00″W / 39.289444°N 76.616667°W / 39.289444; -76.616667
Country	United States
State	Maryland
City	Baltimore

Downtown Baltimore is the central business district of Baltimore traditionally bounded by Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard to the west, Mt. Royal Avenue to the north, President Street to the east and the Inner Harbor area to the south. It consists of five neighborhoods: Westside, Mount Vernon, City Centre, Inner Harbor, and Camden Yards. It is the focal point of business in the Baltimore metropolitan area with over 100,000 employees. It has also increasingly become a heavily populated neighborhood with over 37,000 residents and new condominiums and apartment homes being built steadily.

Geography

City Centre is the historic financial district in Baltimore that has increasingly shifted eastward. Hundreds of businesses are found here, and it remains the center of life in Baltimore. City Centre is also home to the majority of Baltimore's skyscrapers (including the massive Charles Centre district) as well as most of the planned, proposed and/or approved skyscrapers in Baltimore City. It includes the historic Charles Street corridor.

The Inner Harbor is the chief commercial and tourist destination in Baltimore, visited by over 13 million people a year. The Inner Harbor features a large number of restaurants, hotels, retail areas (such as Harborplace), and entertainment (such as Power Plant Live!). It was named by National Geographic as one of the best summer trips in 2012 (along with all of Baltimore in general).^[1]

Charles Street headquarters of the Partnership for Downtown Baltimore

Westside Baltimore is the western portion of downtown Baltimore that includes Market Center and many of the newest developments in downtown Baltimore. It has increasingly become the preferred residential section of downtown. It is also home to the site of the "Superblock" project that will include hundreds of condos and apartments as well as a variety of retail and commercial space. The former home of Baltimore's many and famed department stores, Westside Baltimore is now anchored by the University of Maryland, Baltimore consisting of the University of Maryland Health System, University of Maryland School of Law and the University of Maryland Biopark. The Westside is also home to several performing arts centers, including the Hippodrome Theatre, 1st Mariner Arena and the future home of the Everyman Theatre.

Mount Vernon, also known as the cultural district, is a high-density area known for its attractive nightlife, buoyed by its large amount of bars, clubs and lounges and its historic multi-story townhomes (most of which have been transformed into apartments) and traditional apartment buildings. Mount Vernon features the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, home of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Lyric Opera House. The world-renowned Peabody Institute is also located in Mount Vernon. To the very north is Penn Station, which offers Amtrak service to several U.S. major cities as well as MARC service to Washington, D.C.

Downtown Baltimore also contains Camden Yards, which includes the well-known home of the Baltimore Orioles, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, and M&T Bank Stadium, home of the Baltimore Ravens. Many residential and commercial proposals have also been made for this area.

History

Downtown Baltimore has been the center of city life since Baltimore was chartered in 1796.

The Pratt Street Power Plant was built in 1900. In 1904, downtown Baltimore was almost destroyed by a huge fire with damages estimated at $150 million. In 1973, Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned from the vice-presidency in the Garmatz Federal Office Building at Charles Centre.

The 2012 St. Patrick's Day beating occurred on March 17, 2012 (St. Patrick's Day) in Downtown.^[2]

In April 2015, the death of African American Freddie Gray in police custody lead to the 2015 Baltimore riots, starting in Downtown Baltimore.

Attractions

Transportation

Downtown Baltimore offers many options for transportation, including subway, light rail, bus service, Amtrak, MARC Train service through Penn Station and Camden Station as well as access to I-83, I-695, I-95, 295, and 395.

References

↑ Best Summer Trips 2012 - National Geographic. Travel.nationalgeographic.com. Retrieved on 2013-07-15.
↑ "4th suspect arrested in Baltimore St. Patrick's Day beating." WTOP. Wednesday April 25, 2012. Retrieved on May 3, 2012.

External links

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Baltimore/Downtown.

Neighborhoods in Baltimore, Maryland

Northwest	Arlington Ashburton Cheswolde Dorchester Fallstaff Forest Park Glen Howard Park Heights Pimlico Reisterstown Station Television Hill

North	Abell Barclay Bellona-Gittings Better Waverly Cameron Charles Village Cedarcroft Chinquapin Park-Belvedere Cylburn Edgecomb Evergreen Govans Guilford Hampden Harwood Homeland Homewood Keswick Koreatown Lake Evesham Lake Walker Loyola-Notre Dame Little Korea Town Medfield Mount Washington Oakenshawe Pen Lucy Poplar Hill Radnor-Winston Remington Roland Park Sabina Mattefeldt Tuscany-Canterbury Village of Cross Keys Waverly Woodberry Wyman Park Wyndhurst

Northeast	Belair-Edison Cedonia Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello Ednor Gardens-Lakeside Frankford Gardenville Hamilton Hillen Lauraville Loch Raven Mayfield Mid-Govans Northwood Ramblewood Stonewood-Pentwood-Winston Wilson Park Woodbourne Heights

West	Bridgeview/Greenlawn Coppin Heights Edmondson Franklin Square Harlem Park Lexington Midtown-Edmondson Mondawmin Mosher Poppleton Rosemont Sandtown - Winchester Upton Walbrook Windsor Hills

Central	Barre Circle Bolton Hill Charles Center Chinatown Downtown Inner Harbor Madison Park Mount Vernon Otterbein Reservoir Hill Ridgely's Delight Seton Hill Station North Westside

East	Barclay Berea Broadway East Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello East Baltimore Midway Ellwood Park Four By Four Greenmount West Latrobe Homes Madison-Eastend McElderry Park Middle East Old Town Oliver Orangeville

Southwest	Beechfield Carrollton Ridge Dickeyville Franklintown Gwynn's Falls Hollins Market Irvington Morrell Park Pigtown Sowebo Ten Hills Union Square Violetville Wakefield Washington Village Yale Heights

South	Brooklyn Cherry Hill Curtis Bay Fairfield Federal Hill Harborview Lakeland Locust Point Mount Winans Pratt Monroe South Baltimore Wagner's Point Westport

Southeast	Bayview Brewer's Hill Butchers Hill Canton Fell's Point Graceland Park Greektown Harbor East Highlandtown Jonestown Joseph Lee Kresson Linwood Little Italy Patterson Park St Helena Upper Fells Point Washington Hill

Public housing	Allendale Armistead Gardens Bel Park Towers Claremont Douglass Homes Ellerslie Homes Flaghouse Homes Govans Manor Homes Heritage Crossing Johnston Square Lafayette Court Latrobe Homes Mason Homes Lakeview Towers McCulloh Homes O'Donnell Heights Perkins Homes Pleasent View Gardens Poe Homes Primrose Place Somerset Courts

Parks	Clifton Park Cylburn Arboretum Druid Hill Park Gwynns Falls Park Leakin Park Patterson Park Sherwood Gardens Wyman Park

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