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SD’s tall buildings are just a rectangular and boxy. Most of Baltimores tallest buildings are far removed from Pratt Street, not on it. Of the 10 tallest buildings in the city only 4 are on Pratt.
Yes that’s Baltimores “postcard” pic, but you physically can’t see all of the skyline from Federal Hill (the view angle you are referencing) because you have skyscrapers/high-rises wrapping around in almost a 270 arch around it due to the Inner Harbor not being wide enough.
The buildings in Harbor East are just as “boxy” as the ones on Pratt Street, contemporary architecture aside.
This pic was taken 3 miles north of Pratt Street from the roof of a 10 story parking garage in Charles Village.
To put things in to context the furthest +300ft/100m building visible in the shot is 4.3 miles away in Riverside and there’s still swaths of high-rise out of frame in every direction include behind.
Fells Point is arguably Baltimores main attraction now a days, not the Harbor. Fells serves a similar function to Gaslamp district despite them being located in different parts of the their respective cities.
Federal Hill would be the equivalent to Pacific Beach in it being the primary college hang out spot
Harbor East closest equivalent would SD’s Little Italy in both being extremely upscale high-rise residential areas near the water with the food to match.
Hampden is most similar to North Park. Both are far removed from the water, and have a strong local dive bar/brewery scene.
The difference is Baltimore is way more compact in the same way DC & Philly are hyper compact compared to Houston or Miami despite all being roughly the same size and offering similar levels of amenities.
Yeah, it makes a big difference based on where you view the skyline from. That picture does a good job of capturing the length, despite the buildings looking small. I always come from the south (via 95 north) or the BW parkway. And from that direction, you get the “postcard pic.”
Yeah, it makes a big difference based on where you view the skyline from. That picture does a good job of capturing the length, despite the buildings looking small. I always come from the south (via 95 north) or the BW parkway. And from that direction, you get the “postcard pic.”
Believe it or not, the parking lot of Mondawmin Mall has great views of downtown. The water taxi going towards downtown from Fells Point has great views as well.
For some reason even though I know it's Baltimore that the picture you posted almost make it look like Eastern Europe...with that "rundown" feel .
Judging by the lack of foliage it was dead of winter. Mother Nature >>>>
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And come on, the equivalent to SD's Little Italy is Baltimore's Little Italy .
Baltimore’s Little Italy as an actual ethnic residential enclave thats not commercialized (granted it’s going in that direction). SD’s is nothing but high-end boutiques dotted with insanely expensive restaurants.
Yes both are “Little Italy’s” and serve Italian food, but they have veryyyy little in common outside of that.
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Harbor Point will only grow even more with T. Rowe Price moving their HQ there.
For Harbor East - even though the area is nice, the architecture there is 100% the same as those DC redevelopment, with taller heights. There's zero difference otherwise from areas like The Wharf visually.
They released Harbor Point renders at full build out (expected to be compete in 2027)
I mean most 99% of most modern high-rises are some variant of a glass box. Long gone are the Art-Deco days of architecture.
If you wan’t something that really looks like The Warf or Navy Yards…. head to Port Covington under I-95
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BTW...I can't think of any equivalent to La Jolla/UTC area in Baltimore metro (not even counting the beach). Towson maybe? But La Jolla/UTC area is a lot nicer.
Hunt Valley-Timonium-Towson corridor without pause.
La Jolla & UTC are nicer physically and in setting, but there is uber wealth in Baltimores northern burbs.
San Diego's downtown is quite small, and because its so close to the airport, none of the buildings are built very high. It has big city amenities, but its more like a beach town that never ends.
Great picture. Gray skies and no leaves on the trees. Sign me up for those Baltimore winters.
San Diego could be easily reduced to gray skies and lifeless vegetation, too. At least, Maryland is beautiful during the spring, summer and fall. The dull brown tinge only lasts for four months in Maryland; in San Diego, it lasts all year long.
San Diego could be easily reduced to gray skies and lifeless vegetation, too. At least, Maryland is beautiful during the spring, summer and fall. The dull brown tinge only lasts for four months in Maryland; in San Diego, it lasts all year long.
You’ve clearly never been to San Diego fall through spring? That brown everyone takes shots at is green.
San Diego feels much bigger to me. Baltimore feels small and compact imo.
Having lived in both they are hard to compare on “feel” because the are so different in feel.
You have a post-war growth sunbelt city with dense burbs vs a dense old colonial era city with cul-de-sac burbs. They are the antithesis of each other in layout.
San Diego feels much bigger to me. Baltimore feels small and compact imo.
Having grown up near Baltimore and visited San Diego, this is my feeling too.
Although part of that is subjective because so many parts of Baltimore are residential and not in great shape (i.e. somewhere you would never go unless you lived there). Whereas when I visited San Diego, I was in awe of how many areas are "nice" even after you got out of downtown. Thus San Diego "felt" a lot bigger to me. Outside of a tiny slice of downtown, Baltimore gets rundown very quickly. Even some of the "nicer" pockets further north are residential, but overall it feels very small to me. If some of Baltimore County were a part of Baltimore, I think it would "feel" larger.
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