While Baltimore has been losing population, waterfront neighborhoods like Locust Point have been growing – and attracting younger, more affluent residents who don't work at the port. But the growth has created some tensions – between industry and developers and between oldtime residents and newcomers. Read more…
As younger, more affluent people move into Locust Point, attracted by its sense of community, they are changing the culture.
Many Locust Point parents, wary of the reputation of their neighborhood school, have sent their children to schools off the peninsula. But new residents are organizing to improve the Francis Scott Key Elementary/Middle School.
The sports apparel giant has its headquarters along the waterfront in Locust Point. And when suspicious neighbors have questions about the company's expansion plans, the man who can give them answers is Under Armour's Shawn King.
This project was produced by students in the Baltimore Urban Affairs reporting class at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism, in collaboration with the college's Capital News Service advanced reporting program. Students spent the Fall 2012 semester reporting on the developments and changes at Locust Point, Baltimore — an industrial town that has seen gradual gentrification in recent years. The class is supported in part by the Abell Foundation and The Baltimore Sun.