What constitutes a Renaissance and is Baltimore having one?
Colin Tarbert, president and CEO of the Baltimore Development Corp. (BDC), says he doesn’t like to overuse the term when speaking about planning and construction activity in the city, but he can see why people might think the city is experiencing one.
“I’m always a little bit reticent to use the term Renaissance,” Tarbert said at the BDC’s annual board of directors meeting earlier this month. He likened construction activity in Baltimore to compound interest in banking. “I think it’s starting to compound at a point now where people are recognizing it,” he said. “They’ve seen these investments for so long now that it’s starting to clearly grow.”
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