Morrell Park's Future (Baltimore, Annapolis, Barclay: for sale, crime, neighborhoods)

[Morrell Park]

If you could fix any problem in, what would it take to fix it?

[Woodlands]

Originally Posted by Morrell Park

If you could fix any problem in, what would it take to fix it?

Morrell Park seems to be a handful of working class white neighborhoods in Baltimore that has been shunned by middle and upper class whites moving back to the city. Most of the Gentry are moving into canto Hamden Woodberry and not to similar neighborhoods south of 95 like lakeside Curtis bay and Brooklyn. The anomalys are parts of pigtown/swebo which is seeing innin patches and violetville near St Agnes which is not gentrifying nor falling apart either ..relatively stable

Morrell Park seems to follow other challenged neighborhoods in terms of property crime blight and drug abuse though it doesn't appear to reflect the city violent homicides. That it will likely not improve in the near future as it is not on the water surrounded by noxious uses and its housing the stock doesn't seem notable as it can be found in other areas like Hamden or even Hamilton that are more desirable ...I am not trying to knock it down but it does have some location challenges that will be hard to over come ...it won't become a west Baltimore but there are plenty of other areas in the rapidly deindustrializing SE especially around Highlandtown and Greek town still available for those that want what morrell could offer and a more solid investment....Morrell did defend off the CSX railyard expansion and that incinerator expansion so they have a fairly active citizenry so there is still hope maybe with improvements to middle branch

[NJ2MDdude]

Originally Posted by Morrell Park

If you could fix any problem in, what would it take to fix it?

I google mapped Morrell Park and noticed that it didn't really have a cohesive commercial district or downtown area along Washington Blvd where local residents can walk block after block and shop, eat or otherwise engage in social entertainment activities. A vibrant downtown area could spur further development. Just take a look at SE Baltimore from Harbor East to Canton/Highlandtown and the H Street Corridor in DC.

[Digger 68]

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Yeah, wander around Washington BLVD.........

As soon as you cross MLK you are in the hood!

[BostonBornMassMade]

Morrell Park is working class or poor whites and blacks. Pretty evenly. The wife and I almost moved there before settling in Highlandtown in a more expensive town home.

We then went back down to the MP price point but in Baltimore Highlands near Fayette and Conkling. Overall im glad were in Baltimore Highlands over Morrell Park which is not near anything interesting and seems more depressed and less vibrant than Baltimore Highlands.

Id only take it over McElderry Park when thinking over neighborhoods in my immediate vicinity and even still, thats close. Ideally i'd like to get to Barclay.

Morrell Park need a street beautification program, road diet, constant police presence on washington boulevard. The area near the train tracks has some vacant land currently for sale and a big old storage area-that need to be redeveloped Clipper Mill/Hampden style.

[P47P47]

Originally Posted by BostonBornMassMade

...Baltimore Highlands near Fayette and Conkling.

I didn't know that there was another local neighborhood called Baltimore Highlands (often pronounced as "Balmer Hollans"). I only knew of the area in southern Baltimore County between the Patapsco River and Patapsco Avenue, along Baltimore-Annapolis Blvd., being called by that name.

I worked in Morrell Park for a few years in the early '80s. Too bad Tangier Seafood isn't in business anymore. That place was great.

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Originally Posted by P47P47

I didn't know that there was another local neighborhood called Baltimore Highlands (often pronounced as "Balmer Hollans"). I only knew of the area in southern Baltimore County between the Patapsco River and Patapsco Avenue, along Baltimore-Annapolis Blvd., being called by that name.

I worked in Morrell Park for a few years in the early '80s. Too bad Tangier Seafood isn't in business anymore. That place was great.

I thought the distinction was the in-city BH was singular while the one by the river was plural ... I could be wrong

[james777]

Originally Posted by BostonBornMassMade

Morrell Park is working class or poor whites and blacks. Pretty evenly. The wife and I almost moved there before settling in Highlandtown in a more expensive town home.

We then went back down to the MP price point but in Baltimore Highlands near Fayette and Conkling. Overall im glad were in Baltimore Highlands over Morrell Park which is not near anything interesting and seems more depressed and less vibrant than Baltimore Highlands.

Id only take it over McElderry Park when thinking over neighborhoods in my immediate vicinity and even still, thats close. Ideally i'd like to get to Barclay.

Morrell Park need a street beautification program, road diet, constant police presence on washington boulevard. The area near the train tracks has some vacant land currently for sale and a big old storage area-that need to be redeveloped Clipper Mill/Hampden style.

The intersection of Fayette and Conkling is in the community of Highlandtown, in East Baltimore. Baltimore Highlands is a community in Southwest Baltimore by the river and the city line. It is about eight or nine miles away from Highlandtown.

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Originally Posted by james777

The intersection of Fayette and Conkling is in the community of Highlandtown, in East Baltimore. Baltimore Highlands is a community in Southwest Baltimore by the river and the city line. It is about eight or nine miles away from Highlandtown.

The area sometimes known as Baltimore Highland ... is Around the intersection of Baltimore and highland streets

[BostonBornMassMade]

Originally Posted by P47P47

I didn't know that there was another local neighborhood called Baltimore Highlands (often pronounced as "Balmer Hollans"). I only knew of the area in southern Baltimore County between the Patapsco River and Patapsco Avenue, along Baltimore-Annapolis Blvd., being called by that name.

I worked in Morrell Park for a few years in the early '80s. Too bad Tangier Seafood isn't in business anymore. That place was great.

yea we've got a whole sign and everything. Small neighborhood of 2k people just north of highlandtown. its on a map of city neighborhoods