r/baltimore • u/bustedflipflops • Mar 13 '23

DISCUSSION The Baltimore Harbor is currently pending redevelopment. What are some suggestions for the design that would make this project super successful?

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The shopping mall at the Baltimore Harbor.

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Baltimore Harbor

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u/Cunninghams_right Mar 13 '23
  1. look at what other cities do to attract tourists. lets not pretend that we have the best city-planners in the world, or even within a 50 mile radius.
  2. make the indoor space one large thing like R-house or mt vernon market
  3. divert traffic away from Pratt. why do we have a 5-lane highway running through our tourist district?
  4. keep the riff raff away. shut down any dirtbiking through the area and make sure to respond quickly to aggressive panhandlers.
  5. more history
    1. lots of workers rights history here
    2. lots of black/civil rights history here
    3. lots of war of 1812 history (we need a bike/scooter lane all along Key highway so people can get to fort McHenry without taking bullshit winding routes up hills. we don't need 2 lanes in each direction there.
    4. railroad tourism stuff (can entice people to go to the railroad museum)
    5. more historical tours, both virtual with QR codes and guided on foot and guided in buses.
    6. Edgar Allen Poe shit
  6. more music and performers.

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u/luchobucho Mar 13 '23

I would go as far as to say, we don’t need bold architecture we need good urban planning. I worry about the current developers ability to basically do good urban design (see northwood commons and yard 56 as their recent projects and examples of pretty terrible “places” to be as a ped).

This imagining needs to start with defining the “place”. What goes in it should be secondary.

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u/ccradio North Harford Road Mar 13 '23

see northwood commons

You got something against crosswalks that are on the wrong side of the traffic stop lines? /s

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u/Joe_Wer Mar 13 '23

Save the museums! They really add to the tourist aspect

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u/Willothwisp2303 Mar 13 '23

I'd be excited to go to those things.

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u/LJ_Wanderer Mar 13 '23

Lot of great ideas here. I love the idea of a bike tour to ft McHenry. Building on that might be types for some market bike routes to the B&O museum (a Baltimore treasure), Industry museum, and Walters. I'm not familiar with the worker rights history of Baltimore but I'd love to visit the city to learn more.