The Highlandtown Train Garden is one of the most beloved holiday traditions in the area. Entirely built and managed by local volunteers, the Train Garden features Southeast Baltimore landmarks in miniature with new scenes added each season. The Train Garden is open from late November through January 1 and located at 520 S. Conkling St … Continue reading Highlandtown Train Garden
Read MoreLocation: businesses throughout Highlandtown Main Street district in 2019, with funds from the Baltimore Regional Neighborhood Initiative and the Baltimore Development Corporation’s Façade Improvement Program, the Southeast CDC managed the Highlandtown Merchant Renovation Fund to assist new and expanding businesses in the Highlandtown Main Street district with the cost of commercial build-outs. 2019 locations: Peak … Continue reading Merchant Renovation Fund
Read MoreThe Southeast CDC helps neighbors on Healthy Neighborhood target blocks to envision, plan, and implement small block projects. Good block projects can strengthen social connections among neighbors and help build the real estate market. Southeast CDC has assisted residents with the following block projects: Library Square wall mural on the 2800 block of Pulaski Highway … Continue reading Healthy Neighborhoods Block Projects
Read MoreThe Fayette Street Pocket Park project began in 2010 when the Southeast CDC was approached by residents on the 2900 and 3000 blocks of E. Fayette Street hoping to find a creative solution to the consistent illegal parking, dumping, and drainage problem on a dead-end street. With assistance from the Neighborhood Design Center, the Southeast … Continue reading Fayette Street Pocket Park
Read MoreWith funds from the Baltimore Regional Neighborhood Initiative, the Southeast CDC is working with homeowners in the CARE community and Library Square area to make safety upgrades and improve neighborhood curb appeal through residential façade improvements. Improvements have included fresh paint, new front doors, security screen doors, front porch lights, new stair railings, and replacement … Continue reading Residential Façade Improvements
Read MoreLocations: intersection of Baltimore Street and Highland Avenue; bus stop at Fayette Street and Linwood Avenue; bus stop adjacent to Northeast Market at Chester and Monument Streets Throughout 2017 and 2018, with the expertise of the Neighborhood Design Center, the Southeast CDC completed a community input process to collect feedback on desired transportation-related changes along … Continue reading Transit Placemaking
Read MoreThe Southeast CDC sponsors the operation of the Baltimore Bike Experience weekly community bike shop for youth and adults to learn bicycle repair and participate in group rides around Southeast Baltimore neighborhoods. BBX creates a holistic learning environment where the bicycle becomes the vehicle for self-empowerment, expression, and positive relationship building. BBX has resulted in … Continue reading Baltimore Bike Experience
Read MoreThe Southeast CDC is providing funds from the Baltimore Regional Neighborhood Initiative (BRNI) to support Station East, a housing redevelopment project led by the Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition (HEBCAC). Formerly blocks of vacant rowhomes, the project site spans from Eager St. to Ashland Ave., and Milton Ave. to Patterson Park Ave. and is … Continue reading Station East
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Read MoreLocation: Corner of Roberts Place and N. Conkling Street Roberts Place Garden is a small pocket park at a gateway intersection into the Baltimore Highlands neighborhood. The garden was rundown and abandoned until a few neighbors approached the Southeast CDC about making improvements, including replacing the decrepit Welcome to Baltimore Highlands sign that sat in … Continue reading Roberts Place Garden
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