Is Baltimore a goner? (shop, rated, district)

[Yeadon718]

Silver Spring and Wheaton are lalaland compared to parts of D.C. and PG county and Baltimore.

[PurpleHaze1100]

Of course it is your comparing inner ring mixed used suburbs to dense urban cores. This shouldn't even be a comparison

[choccity]

Originally Posted by JMBX

Silver Spring a ghetto? Wheaton a ghetto? A lot of you seem to think a "ghetto" is anywhere where there are ANY people less than upper middle class. It's kind of ridiculous

Thank you.

Since when did Wheaton and Silver Spring become ghetto, that's funny.

[DistrictSonic]

Originally Posted by JMBX

Silver Spring a ghetto? Wheaton a ghetto? A lot of you seem to think a "ghetto" is anywhere where there are ANY people less than upper middle class. It's kind of ridiculous

Silver Spring is mostly upper-middle class. A ghetto, hardly. It's diverse, but good luck affording a house in the area for less than $500k, most go for $700k-$800k. It's not so great by long branch, but that is really it. Overall the suburb is a dense, diverse, fairly affluent.

Wheaton is solidly middle class immigrant suburb that is mostly latinos.

Comparing either to west Baltimore, or East of the River DC is a joke. Neither one is a ghetto. Baltimore would be doing much better off if it was more like Silver Spring and Wheaton.

[ktaadin]

Baltimore = goner? No, I don't think so. The worst parts of west and east Baltimore will continue to depopulate, and it will be balanced out by growth in the more prosperous core communities, particularly on the east side as Canton + Fells continue to gentrify northward towards Hopkins would be my guess (over the space of the next decade or two). Will it ever get back to our population from the 50's? Doubtful, certainly not anytime soon, but I think with our location on the 95 corridor, there is a floor somewhere below which Bmore is not likely to fall economically and population-wise. It does seem like the decline has pretty much bottomed out in recent years.

[dogpark]

Originally Posted by ktaadin

baltimore = goner? No, i don't think so. The worst parts of west and east baltimore will continue to depopulate, and it will be balanced out by growth in the more prosperous core communities, particularly on the east side as canton + fells continue to gentrify northward towards hopkins would be my guess (over the space of the next decade or two). Will it ever get back to our population from the 50's? Doubtful, certainly not anytime soon, but i think with our location on the 95 corridor, there is a floor somewhere below which bmore is not likely to fall economically and population-wise. It does seem like the decline has pretty much bottomed out in recent years.

+1

[feck]

They said New York City was a goner in
the 1970's. The city was on the brink of
bankruptcy when limited funding from the
Ford Administration helped pull it back.


Fred Sanford:
"Gork eats New York and gets a thank you
note from President Ford".

[JMBX]

Baltimore's population has essentially bottomed out, as ktaadin mentioned, and I don't think it will ever go lower than 615-620 again in the foreseeable future.

[choccity]

Originally Posted by ktaadin

Baltimore = goner? No, I don't think so. The worst parts of west and east Baltimore will continue to depopulate, and it will be balanced out by growth in the more prosperous core communities, particularly on the east side as Canton + Fells continue to gentrify northward towards Hopkins would be my guess (over the space of the next decade or two). Will it ever get back to our population from the 50's? Doubtful, certainly not anytime soon, but I think with our location on the 95 corridor, there is a floor somewhere below which Bmore is not likely to fall economically and population-wise. It does seem like the decline has pretty much bottomed out in recent years.

Listen, the blueprint is already established. If they clean up Times Square and get rid of all the peep/porn shops on 14th Street in DC, Baltimore can be cleaned up. The money hasn't poured in yet, once "the money train" starts coming its a done deal. In the meantime new, innovative, leadership needs to be elected to move those with money to want to invest in Baltimore. The city's still struggling financially, poverty, crime.

[Infinite_heights77]

I liked NYC's Time Square/Forty-Duece Gambino owned and operated peep/porn shops of the 1970's!!!

Originally Posted by choccity

Listen, the blueprint is already established. If they clean up Times Square and get rid of all the peep/porn shops on 14th Street in DC, Baltimore can be cleaned up. The money hasn't poured in yet, once "the money train" starts coming its a done deal. In the meantime new, innovative, leadership needs to be elected to move those with money to want to invest in Baltimore. The city's still struggling financially, poverty, crime.