Water has shaped Baltimore. Across decades, our city’s waterfront has transitioned from working harbor to tourist destination to bustling mixed-use growth centers. Aquariums and concert spaces have replaced shipping vessels, but the soaring vision that leaders like William Donald Schaefer had for Baltimore’s shoreline has ebbed and flowed like the water itself.
Current attention is focused on how to redevelop the seemingly obsolete pavilions at Harborplace, as well as how to prepare for climate-change induced rising water levels. Working on these issues and much more is an organization known as the Waterfront Partnership, a collaboration of government, business and community partners that provides programming, planning, amenities and more all along the urban waterfront, from the Inner Harbor to Fells Point.
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