Baltimore vs DC (architecture, urban feel, culture, & nightlife) (state, crime, homicide)
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Tyson's is a suburban auto oriented edge city. DT's in central business districts are walkable, entertainment, and tourist destination surrounded by historic urban neighborhoods. Tyson's has a long ways to go.
Tysons doesn't have charming architecture, but it's more economically important than DT Baltimore. DT DC has 4x the office space of DT Baltimore, not even close to comparison.
The limited professional economy means a lot of those Baltimore rowhouses are abandoned or in bad shape. Meanwhile, the formerly bombed out rowhouse neighborhoods in DC have gentrified substantially. Logan Circle looks amazing.
Tysons doesn't have charming architecture, but it's more economically important than DT Baltimore. DT DC has 4x the office space of DT Baltimore, not even close to comparison.
The limited professional economy means a lot of those Baltimore rowhouses are abandoned or in bad shape. Meanwhile, the formerly bombed out rowhouse neighborhoods in DC have gentrified substantially. Logan Circle looks amazing.
Downtown Baltimore has 4x as many residents as Downtown DC does. Former vacant office towers are being converted into apartments and condos at a constant rate. Adding to the vibrancy of Downtown. And only the Inner parts of East and West Baltimore have the abandoned Rowhomes. Every other major city I've been to have abandoned sections. And you say DC has fully gentrified all its bombed out hoods, what about SE? It still has yet to see any gentrification. Baltimore is all about service. The cities economy is service oriented. Johns Hopkins Hospital is a major service for the economy, in fact JH is tearing down all the bombed out rowhouses neighborhoods surrounding it and expanding its campus, as well as gentrifying the rest of the neighborhoods. If you look at the skyline, Johns Hopkins area is starting to look like its own downtown with all the high rises being constructed and development.
Downtown Baltimore has 4x as many residents as Downtown DC does. Former vacant office towers are being converted into apartments and condos at a constant rate. Adding to the vibrancy of Downtown. And only the Inner parts of East and West Baltimore have the abandoned Rowhomes. Every other major city I've been to have abandoned sections. And you say DC has fully gentrified all its bombed out hoods, what about SE? It still has yet to see any gentrification
SE DC is gentrifying like crazy. You been here recently?
Not sure what you're classifying as "downtown", but if you were here in the last five years, you'd see the tons of cranes around CityCenter, Mass Ave, and SE. DC has added over 40,000 people since 2010, mostly in high density tracts downtown and near downtown. Meanwhile, Baltimore has had virtually no population growth, yet still has more than 2x the homicides that DC does.
SE DC is gentrifying like crazy. You been here recently?
Not sure what you're classifying as "downtown", but if you were here in the last five years, you'd see the tons of cranes around CityCenter, Mass Ave, and SE. DC has added over 40,000 people since 2010, mostly in high density tracts downtown and near downtown. Meanwhile, Baltimore has had virtually no population growth, yet still has more than 2x the homicides that DC does.
Baltimore has added 2000 residents as of 2013. I will admit DC is at a faster pace of gentrification than Baltimore is, but Baltimore is still developing at a rapid rate. Meanwhile, didn't DC murder rate increase the past 2 years reaching the triple digits again? And I'm mainly talking about SE east of the river. Virtually no gentrification whatsoever. I see no cranes at all EOTR. Baltimore has Harbor Point a huge mixed use development project that will include the future HQ of Exelon, being constructed currently along the Waterfront. It will consist of 5 sky scrapers of office space and apartments Permanately changing the city's skyline. Not to mention all the development occurring around Hopkins, and Westside of Downtown.
It's not just Baltimore, but it's usually desperate cities that try to build economies around hospitals. Every city has them, and many have teaching hospitals that receive a lot of grants. I grew up near Worcester, MA and they tried to do the same thing with UMass.
Now it would be interesting if Baltimore could snag some of the high paying biotech jobs from Montgomery County.
Even Southeast DC doesn't have the kind of bombed out neighborhoods you see in Baltimore with lots of abandoned and boarded up rowhouses. The rowhouse neighborhoods of Southeast, especially along the Anacostia, are tidy and well mainted. Beyond those neighborhoods SE is more suburban with a mix of single family houses and garden apartments. Most of these neighborhodds are pretty decent. Then there are some housing projects like Barry farms that are a little rough. But I can't think of any area in SE that has that bombed out look like some neighborhoods in Baltimore. I like Baltimore too but some of those neighborhoods just look beat.
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