Just HOW bad/scary is Mondawmin Mall and the surrounding area???? (Baltimore: bankruptcy, high school)

[jonjj]

I don't think Targets or Shoppers or the owners of the mall itself would invest in the time and money to improve it if they didn't think it would work. Along with the Coppin expansion on Gwynns Falls and other improvements in that area, I see many positive changes.

[Joan Elaine]

high crime area, stay away!!

[Joan Elaine]

you have been lucky for sure

[Joan Elaine]

maybe it is changing but, it was a bad place to be a while back, a lot of robberies, shootings, etc

[barante]

A while back? When was the last time you visited Mondawmin Mall?

[Oldhippie43]

I grew up on Pen Lucy Rd. in Uplands, an area just south of Mondawmin. It used to be a nice neighborhood of row homes with small, neatly mowed front lawns, and fenced in back lawns. This was during the 50's and 60's. My mother lived there until she died in 1994. Along with my brothers and sisters, we had tried to convince her to move because the area had changed significantly and crime was already becoming more and more of a problem. Now, I read and hear about gangs, and drugs, and murders in the area. Personally, I'm glad I no longer have a reason to go anywhere near Uplands or Mondawmin anymore. In fact, I now pretty much avoid Baltimore City in general.

[barante]

I know a guy who grew up in Edmondson Village. The few times he has gone back he has carried a gun.
I myself think that's a bit extreme.

[Billiam]

^ That is just unnecessary and he quite honestly must have a disgustingly exaggerated view on Edmondson village

[carthell]

Originally Posted by Oldhippie43

I grew up on Pen Lucy Rd. in Uplands, an area just south of Mondawmin. It used to be a nice neighborhood of row homes with small, neatly mowed front lawns, and fenced in back lawns. This was during the 50's and 60's. My mother lived there until she died in 1994. Along with my brothers and sisters, we had tried to convince her to move because the area had changed significantly and crime was already becoming more and more of a problem. Now, I read and hear about gangs, and drugs, and murders in the area. Personally, I'm glad I no longer have a reason to go anywhere near Uplands or Mondawmin anymore. In fact, I now pretty much avoid Baltimore City in general.

Uplands? Isn't that at least three miles (as the crow flies) south & west from Mondawmin, and blocked by at least two major thoroughfares, a river, and a massive park? You might as well declare Brooklyn a easy stroll from Mt. Washington.

The 1990s was a fairly bad time for selected swaths of the city (I used to live in one of them), but things has changed. The area that you speak of is awaiting redevelopment.

I visit Mondawmin on occasions, including this year. (I like Shoppers Food, so I usually take a weekend food run to shop at one of the chain's sites around the metro area.) Mondawmin is no different than any other mall that I've visited in the area, except it doesn't require an airplane ride from your parking space to a mall entrance.

[jonjj]

I took the metro up to Mondawmin today at lunch to get some things at Target. I felt completely at ease not once feeling as though I have entered the Twilight Zone. I'm not sure I would venture there at night on foot but during the day it was perfectly fine.