Locations: 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 the Fayette Street and Highland Avenue corridors.
With $150,000 of funding from the Baltimore Regional Neighborhood Initiative, a program of the State Department of Housing and Community Development, the Southeast CDC transformed three heavily traveled bus transit areas by adding new bus stop shelters, murals, and lighting.
BALTIMORE STREET & HIGHLAND AVE
Community members ranked their preferred projects, which included additional lighting at dark intersections and storefronts, vibrant crosswalks and painted curb extensions, large-scale murals to enliven the intersections, and additional trash cans and planters. To achieve these goals, the CDC focused initially on two large properties adjacent to the existing bus shelters by adding murals, store signage, custom trash cans, and pedestrian lighting.
The mural at 3325 E. Baltimore Street painted by Pablo Machioli was awarded the “Best New Mural” by Baltimore magazine in 2018. The new store signage at 3400 E. Baltimore Street was designed by Southeast CDC staff and painted by Mural Masters.
FAYETTE STREET & LINWOOD AVENUE
Working with the Friends of Library Square, the CDC helped create and install two new sculptural bus stops in Library Square, one near the Linwood Avenue and Fayette Street, adjacent to the Patterson Park branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, the other near Lakewood Avenue and Fayette Street, near William Paca School. The shelters were designed by the Neighborhood Design Center and fabricated by Tim Scofield and Kyle Miller.
CHESTER STREET & MONUMENT STREET
At Chester Street next to Northeast Market, Southeast CDC worked with the Baltimore Public Markets Corporation, the Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition, Woolf & Woolf Optometrists, and Mural Masters on new lighting and public art on the Northeast Market and near the bus stop.
