Baltimore city and community leaders are hopeful that the newly renovated building — a former storefront donated by Downtown Locker Room (DTLR) — will become a central hub for nurturing small businesses on Pennsylvania Avenue.
They gathered for a ribbon cutting Tuesday to celebrate the opening of a welcome center at 1829 Pennsylvania Avenue, a venue that was once burned and left as a shell in the aftermath of the Freddie Gray protests, said community organizer, Wanda Best.
Declared a Main Street 20-years-ago, the Pennsylvania Avenue commercial corridor will support the six neighborhoods that make up “old” west Baltimore i.e. Penn-North, Druid Heights, Sandtown-Winchester, Harlem Park, Lafayette Square and Upton.
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