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If your business is growing, we’d love you to consider coming to Highlandtown, a growing neighborhood in Southeast Baltimore! Highlandtown is filled with vibrancy, color, and art. We are home to the Creative Alliance, Great Halloween Lantern Parade, Maryland Traditions Folk Life Festival, Highlandtown Gallery, and more. We also love to showcase our talents right on the main street with impromptu Mariachi bands, yarn bombings, and dance performances. Highlandtown in an active community and home to Baltimore’s best park: Patterson Park. The park serves over 50,000 people a year who walk, jog, bike, play on sports leagues, and attend fitness classes. Highlandtown is a very walkable neighborhood—with a Walk Score of 90—and our sidewalks are often filled with runners, dog walkers, and families out for a stroll. Highlandtown is the place to come for authentic food options—and visitors and residents are always asking for MORE! We have great places like Chicken Rico, Di Pasquale’s Italian Marketplace, Matthew’s Pizza, and Annabel Lee Tavern! Highlandtown is a neighborhood of makers. We’ve got designers, jewelry makers, metal workers, and puppeteers working alongside coffee roasters, piñata makers, and chefs. We are home to a muralist who opened an international residency program, a tech company inventing slick new phone apps, and a sculptor restoring Baltimore statues AND creating custom seating for our local plaza! Highlandtown is a place where you want to hang out, bring your friends, and be yourself. We are a neighborhood filled with diverse people sharing great experiences. We care about each other and local businesses and we want to invite you to be a part of our community. In addition, as a nationally designated district of the Baltimore Main Street program, an initiative of the mayor’s office, we have the full support of the Baltimore Development Corporation and other City agencies. We have staff dedicated to meet the needs and concerns of the businesses in our district. Attached you’ll find more reasons why Highlandtown is one of Baltimore’s best communities for business. Or come see for yourself—we’d be happy to show you the neighborhood! Sincerely, Amanda Smit-Peters Highlandtown Main Street Manager [email protected] 410-342-3234 ext 26 3323 Eastern Avenue, Suite 200, Baltimore, MD 21224 Highlandtown Main Street is a Program of the Southeast Community Development Corporation
Transcript of in Southeast Baltimore! bombings, and dance performances.
If your business is growing, we’d love you to consider coming to Highlandtown, a growing neighborhood in Southeast Baltimore!
Highlandtown is filled with vibrancy, color, and art. We are home to the Creative Alliance, Great Halloween Lantern Parade, Maryland Traditions Folk Life Festival, Highlandtown Gallery, and more. We also love to showcase our talents right on the main street with impromptu Mariachi bands, yarn bombings, and dance performances.
Highlandtown in an active community and home to Baltimore’s best park: Patterson Park. The park serves over 50,000 people a year who walk, jog, bike, play on sports leagues, and attend fitness classes. Highlandtown is a very walkable neighborhood—with a Walk Score of 90—and our sidewalks are often filled with runners, dog walkers, and families out for a stroll.
Highlandtown is the place to come for authentic food options—and visitors and residents are always asking for MORE! We have great places like Chicken Rico, Di Pasquale’s Italian Marketplace, Matthew’s Pizza, and Annabel Lee Tavern!
Highlandtown is a neighborhood of makers. We’ve got designers, jewelry makers, metal workers, and puppeteers working alongside coffee roasters, piñata makers, and chefs. We are home to a muralist who opened an international residency program, a tech company inventing slick new phone apps, and a sculptor restoring Baltimore statues AND creating custom seating for our local plaza!
Highlandtown is a place where you want to hang out, bring your friends, and be yourself. We are a neighborhood filled with diverse people sharing great experiences. We care about each other and local businesses and we want to invite you to be a part of our community.
In addition, as a nationally designated district of the Baltimore Main Street program, an initiative of the mayor’s office, we have the full support of the Baltimore Development Corporation and other City agencies. We have staff dedicated to meet the needs and concerns of the businesses in our district.
Attached you’ll find more reasons why Highlandtown is one of Baltimore’s best communities for business. Or come see for yourself—we’d be happy to show you the neighborhood!
Sincerely,
Amanda Smit-Peters Highlandtown Main Street Manager [email protected] 410-342-3234 ext 26
3323 Eastern Avenue, Suite 200, Baltimore, MD 21224 Highlandtown Main Street is a Program of the Southeast Community Development Corporation
One of the most culturally diverse areas in Baltimore City, Highlandtown Main Street boasts an eclectic mix of retail, art and restaurant spaces that cater to over 250,000 visitors annually. Stretching 10 blocks of Eastern Avenue, the Main Street offers everyday amenities, like grocery stores, a library, and law and medical offices, and boasts the city’s finest art and restaurant destinations.
Food enthusiasts come to Highlandtown Main Street to find truly authentic international cuisine DiPasquale’s Italian
HIGHLANDTOWN
Contact: Kristina Williams I Economic Development O cer I [email protected] S. Charles Street, Suite 1600, Baltimore, MD 21201 I Tel 410-837-9305 I Fax 410-837-6363 I www.BaltimoreDevelopment.com
REVITALIZATION ENTERPRISE ZONE INVESTMENT MAIN STREET INITIATIVE
Marketplace and Chicken Rico. Many of our restaurants have won local and national acclaim, showing up on the Food Network and “Best of” Lists.
Highlandtown Main Street bisects two of Southeast Bal t imore’s hottest neighborhoods: Canton and Highlandtown. It’s convenient to downtown Baltimore, easily accessible from I-95, I-895, steps from Patterson Park and a few blocks from Johns Hopkins Bayview medical campus, with 4,400+ employees.
Top left to right: BUS sculpture sits next to Creative Alliance; Highlandtown Gallery serves coffee and artists; High Grounds Coffee Roasters brews coffee locally in Highlandtown; Bailes De Mi Tierra performs at Southeast Anchor Library; Artist Ezra Berger paints a neighborhood mural at High Grounds; Vitamin design and marketing boutique reaches clients throughout the mid-Atlantic from Highlandtown; and Chicken Rico’s sign beacons hungry lunch-goers.
WALK SCORE 90 VERY WALKABLEAVERAGE ANNUAL WEEKDAY DAILY TRAFFIC COUNT
EASTERN AVENUE: 23,430
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Top to bottom: Annual Holiday Kick-Off & Tree Lighting on Conkling Plaza; Small Business Saturday Breakfast outside Hoehn’s Bakery; Annual district wide Trick-O’-Treat on Highlandtown Main Street community party.
POPULATION 0-0.5 MI. 0-1 MI. 0-3 MI. Population 12,553 36,267 193,167
Male 6,446 18,301 95,793
Female 6,107 17,966 97,374
Age 25-44 5,866 15,809 69,414
Bachelor's or Higher 2,735 8,476 37,273
HOUSEHOLDS (HH) Households 5,421 14,903 79,661
Avg HH Size 2.31 2.42 2.31
Owner-Occ. 60% 55% 46%
INCOME Average HH $ 71,236 $ 74,291 $ 60,208
Median HH $ 52,738 $ 53,065 $ 41,502
CONSUMER EXPENDITURES ($ THOUSANDS) Food at Home $ 27,432 $ 77,209 $ 387,381
Food away from Home $ 16,408 $ 44,958 $ 208,891
Household Furnishings & Appliances $ 13,525 $ 37,523 $ 178,554
Sports & Entertainment $ 25,570 $ 72,377 $ 334,223 Apparel $ 20,546 $ 58,949 $ 278,919
OPPORTUNITY GAP
All Retail Incl. Eating & Drinking Places $ 75,193,226
$231,001,511 $511,685,876
Furniture & Home Furnishings $ 4,079,060 $ 10,081,537 $ 38,551,781
Electronics & Appliances $ 3,109,430 $ 8,245,492 $ 38,421,923
Building Material, Garden Equipment $ 16,360,566 $ 35,174,197 $145,505,237 Supermarkets $ (7,720,799) $ 7,314,797 $ 90,519,311
Health & Personal Care $ 1,484,666 $ 10,131,883 $ 11,357,765 Clothing $ 7,631,872 $ 25,027,723 $ 73,910,824
Sporting Goods, Etc. $ 3,992,236 $ 11,297,946 $ 43,852,841
Genl. Merchandise $ 25,561,414 $ 73,778,180 $317,939,587
Full Service Restaurants $ (2,309,566)
$(18,455,505)
$(206,979,966)
EMPLOYMENT Workplace 3,960 12,852 187,839
