Uploaded August 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Baltimore's Inner Harbor is a historic neighborhood and seaport hailed as "the model for post-industrial waterfront redevelopment around the world," by Urban Land Institute in 2009. The economic devastation from World War Two left this area littered with abandoned factories and warehouses through the 1950s. A decade of initiatives from Mayors Thomas D'Alesandro and Theodore McKeldon revitalized the district by replacing the dilapidation with waterfront parks and surrounding hotels and business headquarters.
Baltimore's Inner Harbor is a historic neighborhood and seaport hailed as "the model for post-industrial waterfront redevelopment around the world," by Urban Land Institute in 2009. The economic devastation from World War Two left this area littered with abandoned factories and warehouses through the 1950s. A decade of initiatives from Mayors Thomas D'Alesandro and Theodore McKeldon revitalized the district by replacing the dilapidation with waterfront parks and surrounding hotels and business headquarters.
