Southwest Baltimore Partnership

When neighborhood leaders convinced the big university hospital nearby to join them in a community improvement project, no one thought that would lead to…

Even before the entrepreneurs made a coffee a luxury item, the drink had a certain community-building quality.A cup-a-joe spot was a touch stone, a…

Big shouldered, urban "anchor" institutions have been known to try to buy community peace by promising jobs to their neighbors—like leaf raking or…

Back in the day, pigs arrived in Charm City by train and hit the streets running on their way to the breakfast table.They were doomed, of course. But they…

Unprecedented help may be on the way the neighborhoods of southwest Baltimore. Maryland's Baltimore-based professional schools are joining seven southwest…