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Baltimore downtown getting denser and that is good
Baltimore may have lost another 30,000 people during the last decade, but in one key measure of urban vitality, we’re holding strong.
Downtown Baltimore is the 8th densest metropolitan core in the United States, with 41,289 residents living within a one-mile radius of Pratt and Light streets. This means that our downtown is denser than those is Denver, San Diego and that big green park down I-95 known as the District of Columbia.
We still trail New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Seattle and Boston in residents dwelling within the center city. But using the ranking system of the National Basketball Association (even though we don’t have an NBA team) our 8th place finish means we had made the downtown population playoffs; we are among the elite.
Looked at another way, downtown Baltimore’s population density is even more impressive. Taking into account the entire metropolitan area — the city and all its suburbs — about 1.5 percent of the Baltimore region’s population lives within a mile of the center of downtown. Only in San Francisco (2.8 percent) and Seattle (1.6 percent) do a larger share of the metropolitan area’s residents live downtown. Philadelphia is the only other city east of the Rockies that even tops 1 percent.
This number of people who dwell in downtown Baltimore (an area roughly encircled by Fort Avenue on the south, Broadway on the east, Eager Street on the north and just short of Hollins Market on the west) has risen almost 12 percent in the last five years. These downtown denizens are earning an average of $37,625 per household, 10th highest among the nation’s downtowns. The rankings and numbers come from Claritas, a national commercial real estate database, and from Baltimore’s Downtown Partnership.
More people with more money translates into more amenities for the center city. Thirty-nine restaurants and eateries opened in the downtown zone in 2010, while 18 closed. Over the past few years grocery stores such the Whole Foods in Harbor East and the Super Fresh on Charles and Saratoga set up operations.
Many of these new downtown dwellers are new to city, if not the region. A portion work downtown — with 113,437 workers, Baltimore ranks 15th among American cities in downtown employment. Some of the newcomers are empty nesters that help Baltimore’s downtown rank 8th among American cities with households earning more than $75,000. They are drawn to an urban lifestyle, the ability to walk or ride transit to work, to bump into acquaintances on the sidewalk, to hang out in a neighborhood restaurant. Their lives are more “Seinfeld” than “Leave it to Beaver.”
Living close together has its drawbacks. It is often hard to avoid your neighbors’ noise and business. The much-heralded sense of community can be tested when heavy snows fall and parking spaces are scarce. But with new apartments and condos filling up, it’s appeal is obviously growing.
As a whole the population of Baltimore has been shirking, down about 4.6 percent from 2000, according to the 2010 Census — a disappointing figure, though still better than our Rust Belt peers such as Cleveland, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. Yet the city is like a garden — there are patches that are struggling and there are areas that are flourishing. Downtown Baltimore is on growth spurt, and that bodes well for our region’s economic and cultural vitality. Downtown is not simply a destination for commuters, it is a place more people are calling home. This trend should continue, for while it is good to be dense, it is even better to be denser.
Baltimore downtown getting denser and that is good Baltimore may have lost another 30,000 people during the last decade, but in one key measure of urban vitality, we’re holding strong.
Downtown Baltimore is the 8th densest metropolitan core in the United States, with 41,289 residents living within a one-mile radius of Pratt and Light streets. This means that our downtown is denser than those is Denver, San Diego and that big green park down I-95 known as the District of Columbia.
Glad to see that Baltimore broke 40k, as I hoped it would earlier in this thread. I have to assume that the growth has been speeding up in more recent years (the last numbers I saw were around 38-39k, and was only a year or two ago). I would bet that downtown Baltimore will be an even more popular place in 10 years. Mount Vernon, Lexington Market, etc. are just great areas that need more connectivity, and I know more people will be moving in to do just that.
The population listed for downtown LA based on a 1-mile radius using 2000 census data may be somewhat misleading as the majority of downtown residents back then (> 60%) were skid row homeless and near homeless in subsidized housing. You can see in the Baltimore brochure how anemic the income was for "downtown" LA in 2000.
According to blogdowntown what most people consider downtown is just now at 51,000 people, up about 15,000 in ten years. And not only that, it's probably more like 20,000 new residents and 5,000 fewer homeless. Downtown LA is a decade behind other US cities, but even in this economy it continues to grow with new residential buildings and various businesses opening.
1. SF
2. Seattle
3. Denver
4. Portland
5. San Jose
6. Boston
7. Boise
8. Indianapolis
9. San Antonio
10.New Orleans
Downtowns That are Work in Progress(emerging)
1. New York
2. Chicago
3. San Diego
4. Philadelphia
5. Los angeles
6. Minneapolis
7. Miami
8. Milwaukee
9. Cleveland
10.Austin
11.Washington DC
12.Pittsburgh
13.Nashville
Downtowns are Dead and Struggling:
1. Dallas
2. Cincinnati
3. Atlanta
4. Houston
5. Phoenix
6. Sacramento
7. St. Louis
8. Tampa
9. Jacksonville
10.Fresno
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