The Highlandtown Merchant Renovation Fund assists new and expanding businesses in the Highlandtown Main Street district with the cost of commercial build-outs through a grant of up to $50,000.
Application are due May 13, 2018. Click here for more details.
Read MoreThe Southeast CDC., in partnership with other organizations like Parks & People Foundation and Blue Water Baltimore, has been at the forefront of a sustained push to add trees to the landscape, most recently with the help of a $75,000 grant from Chesapeake Bay Trust to plant 350-plus trees in the Greater Highlandtown neighborhood.
Read MoreAlready known as neighborhood sources of knowledge, seniors’ wisdom is even more apparent in their enthusiasm to add to that knowledge at two Money Matters for Seniors events.
“Our first event was very successful,” said Meg Elseroad, noting that nearly 100 seniors attended the first.
Read MoreKnown as a positive force in the neighborhood and a haven of sorts for the many immigrant parents whose children go there, Ruhrah is at a staggering 188 percent of student capacity while posting an astonishing staff turnover of zero.
Read MoreMemorial Day weekend marked a major transition for Margaret Giles, who became a homeowner for the first time. “I was intimidated a little, being 50 years old, but I had to step out there,” she said. With the help of the Housing Choice Voucher Homeownership Program, federally funded and administered by the Housing Authority of … Continue reading Voucher holder becomes first-time homeowner
Read MoreIf a work of art can enliven a home, then why not a business district? Such was the rationale behind the latest murals and placemaking endeavor on the eastern end of the Highlandtown Main Street business district, and it seems to be working. Shawn Glanville owns Savannah’s Island Bar and Grill, which fronts Eastern Avenue … Continue reading Sizzlin’ Summer: Murals heat up business district, celebration planned
Read MoreWhen Marta first met Margie Hatch, the family stability case manager at Highlandtown Elementary/Middle School #237, her children’s father had – unbeknownst to Marta – stopped paying the rent for the family’s apartment. “Unless she could get $4,600 together,” Hatch recalled, “she and her three kids would be evicted and need to move to a … Continue reading Education, not eviction: Family stability program assists Highlandtown students, families
Read MoreOn May 14, 2016, Southeast CDC held Viva Baltimore! The event was held at Highlandtown Elementary Middle School #215 on Pratt Street from 10 AM to 2 PM. This is the second time Southeast CDC worked to put together an event to promote homeownership entirely in Spanish. More than 40 people attended. One family came … Continue reading “Viva Baltimore!” Event Sparks Home Buying Interest
Read MoreThe Southeast Community Development Corporation (SECDC) recently convened an education task force to study district-wide elementary/middle school overcrowding and develop a set of recommendations to present to the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners (BCPSS) in October of 2016. The task force, which was formed in April, is specifically looking at ways to reduce chronic … Continue reading New SE Education Task Force Looks to Reduce Overcrowding, Support Immigrants in Southeast Schools
Read MoreFor Dan Elwood, a Butcher’s Hill resident for 35 years, it was not a difficult decision to move several blocks due north to CARE, a neighborhood in the process of revitalization in the eastern shadow of Johns Hopkins Hospital. “It seems like there’s a sense of establishment there – some kind of new dynamic,” said … Continue reading Fresh seafood and a $26,000 grant: Incentives abound for Hopkins employees moving to CARE
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