NeighborSpace is pleased to announce the addition of four new board members. They include: Aaron J. Barnett, a longshoreman and the current Vice President of the local International Longshoremans Association. He is also President of the Powhatan Farms Improvement Association, which serves as the NeighborSpace stewardship partner at Powhatan Park. Aaron lives in Lochearn. Larry […]
Together with the Turner Station Conservation Teams, Inc., NeighborSpace presented a case for support of a new half-acre park in the Dundalk neighborhood of Turner Station as part of a #GivingTuesday Campaign. You more than stepped up, donating over $4,500 for the cause – THANK YOU SO MUCH! The project is important because of: (1) […]
*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* (This is the third in a series of articles about a partnership between NeighborSpace and the Turner Station Conservation Teams to create a new park in Turner Station next year. The first may be found here and the second here). In previous articles about our reasons for investing in Turner Station, we’ve discussed the […]
(This is the second in a series of articles about a partnership between NeighborSpace and the Turner Station Conservation Teams to create a new park in Turner Station next year. The first may be found here). In the course of public deliberations over the development of a liquefied natural gas import facility and gas […]
“The place was born in an out-of-the-way spot, before racial integration and as a direct consequence of racial prejudice.” So wrote Sun Reporter, Jonathan Pitts, in an article about the Dundalk neighborhood of Turner Station in 2019. NeighborSpace is drawing attention to it, once again, because of land the organization has acquired in a section […]
This week, while going through my blog feeds, I came across something that gave me pause. It was a post by the Project for Public Spaces (PPS) on the topic of “equitable development.” The upshot of the piece was this: “While ending police violence may be one of the most urgent needs, systemic racism infects […]
Adelaide Bentley Park, like the story of East Towson, is a case in perseverance. Words alone cannot describe what the process of creating the park has been like and many do not understand how hard it is to maintain it. No matter what you do, water flows, wind blows and plants grow. A site like […]
We want to take this opportunity to offer our sincere thanks to Council Chair Cathy Bevins and to Assistant County Attorney Amy Grossi for their help in securing a right of entry to the parcel labeled “5” in the map below, which is part of Cherry Heights Woodland Garden in Overlea. This is turning into […]
I was thinking the other day about how much I love the neighborhood where I live. When my family and I moved to Baltimore, we chose a neighborhood based on the cost of housing, proximity to work, walkability, quality of schools, and the availability of public utilities. This seems like an exhaustive list, but one […]
Greetings! My name is Amanda Kaspar. I just began my sophomore year at Friends School of Baltimore. Earlier this year, I asked my biology teacher, Mrs. Katherine Jenkins, if she could suggest a place for an internship based on my interests. Considering I am part of The Green Club she directs, she suggested I reach […]