On a stretch of downtown west filled mostly with parking lots, the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) sees its next chapter.
The university wants to turn a swath of largely vacant land along the West Lexington corridor into a “college town.” The redevelopment costing nearly $300 million adds new housing, a sit-down restaurant and an athletic field to land it largely owns.
“It’s an opportunity to develop the northern end of our campus to make it a vibrant community,” said Bruce Jarrell, president of UMB since 2020. “We think of it as a college town, an area where young people, older people want to live together. They will put feet on the street to make energy happen around here.”
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