The Baltimore Brew
By Mark Reutter
October 26. 2016
“The epicenter of last year’s civil disturbance in West Baltimore is to become the subject of a half-million-dollar consultant’s study on how to improve safety, landscaping and traffic flow. Today the Board of Estimates approved $447,527.97 to a Hunt Valley engineering firm to provide design services for improvements to the intersection of Pennsylvania and North avenues. It was at this location where hundreds of demonstrators faced off against police and National Guard during tense confrontations, arson and looting following the death in police custody of Freddie Gray in April 2015. Bounded by a ransacked CVS pharmacy, a string of dilapidated rowhouses and one seeming island of stability, the neighborhood branch of the Enoch Pratt Library, Penn-North was memorialized in the eyes of the world as a riot zone in the wake of coverage by CNN and other media…”
https://www.baltimorebrew.com/2016/10/26/rehabbing-an-intersection-seared-into-baltimores-memory/