East Baltimore, under renovation
Johns Hopkins University is seeking to engineer the revival of a huge swath of East Baltimore through an 88-acre project that includes the takeover of a struggling public school. Here’s a look at the neighborhood as it is now as well as at Johns Hopkins’s redevelopment plans.
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East Baltimore Community School students are dismissed at the end of the day. Johns Hopkins University has taken over the public school as part of a huge redevelopment project in East Baltimore, undertaken in order to turn around the area and protect its medical campus. It's a challenge many major urban universities face. They are not only education centers; they are also developers and landlords next to some of the most downtrodden areas in the country.
Sarah L. Voisin / The Washington Post
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