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Baltimore News Digest

A daily dose of South Bmore area news curated from around the Web.

This feature is provided by the Internet news curation services of the Paper.li organization. The news feed is refreshed daily at 9:00 AM and 9:00 PM.

Note, please: This feature is on temporary hiatus (until we find a better source).

This feature is sourced and provided by the Internet news curation services of the Paper.li organization. While not all articles that are presented on a daily basis are Baltimore-specific, they should all have some relevance to Bmore residents and those interested in the area.

News Digest Sample from Paper.li – 02/14/22.

The Paper.li news-gathering organization (to quote their website) “uses natural language processing, machine learning and social signals to analyze and extract the most relevant and engaging stories from social media and the web.”

Launched in the last millennium, SouthBaltimore.com has been online since May, 1999, and has served as an information source for more than two decades. This latest feature now provides news content for the Baltimore area and presents curated articles refreshed twice every day. New articles are pushed from Paper.li to this page at 9:00 AM and again at 9:00 PM. Most of the stories and articles are curated from known news sources and give a bit of a headline – with a click-through to the full article at the original source.

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Harbor East Baltimore

A thriving city-within-a-city across the Harbor from South Baltimore.

Where casual, fun and fine dining, great places to live in newly rebuilt condominiums/apartments, great places to shop and lively entertainment create a wonderful place to be. Of course, don’t forget the proximity to the waterfront and downtown Baltimore in this walkabout neighborhood. Imagine the economic health of the Inner Harbor being combined with the rich history, culture and tradition of East Baltimore. A win-win for sure.

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The area of Baltimore once called Inner Harbor East is now simply called “Harbor East.” It is a truly wonderful example of mixed-use urban development/redevelopment. A half billion dollars worth of construction made a huge impact and now Harbor East offers all the amenities which modern urban dwellers seek. Some may use the term “urban chic” to describe being a part of this neighborhood (in fact, there’s go to be an upscale shop with that name somewhere in the center of all the action).

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With a dozen square blocks of the ultimate in City Life, this desirable neighborhood is bounded by Fleet Street on the north; S. Caroline Street to the east; Lancaster Street, the Promenade and waters of the Patapsco River to the south; and the Jones Falls (stream, not expressway) and the Promenade to the west. Aliceanna Street (west-east) bisects the neighborhood horizontally and provides a walkway parallel to the Promenade along the water.

Walking in Inner Harbor East appears as a focus of the urban structure allowing residents and visitors easy access to the waterfront near the high-rise condos/apartments, offices and newly built hotels, such as the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel. Retail business includes a modern (and popular) market, up-scale shops with an urban theme, a “Landmark” 7-screen theater (get your movie tickets now), and a pleasing variety of eateries. Urban sprawl is no longer in vogue; instead, this implementation of creative urban development is pedestrian friendly, uses less land, is environmentally friendly and brings a valuable neighborhood to Baltimore City.

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Port Covington

A brief look at the southern shore of the South Baltimore Peninsula.

About time, right?

Port Covington Real Estate Domain Header

The first iteration of the PortCovington.com website was recorded by the Internet Archive “Wayback Machine” on February 2, 2004, just over a week after the domain was registered. As near as we can tell, this was the first website solely about Port Covington and its role as a South Baltimore “neighborhood” among the myriad neighborhoods in the City of Baltimore and on the Baltimore peninsula south of the Inner Harbor.

The small bit of narrative was much as the “intro” to the site today. It reads: “In mid-2002, the world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart, opened its first Baltimore City stores at Port Covington in the South Baltimore area. Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club are the first retailers to locate in the new Port Covington Shopping Center , a 60-acre, waterfront site on East Cromwell Street. Several hundred City jobs were created when the 142,000 square foot Wal-Mart and the 130,000 square foot Sam’s Club opened their doors. This strategically-located retail development at the site of a former City rail yard has come a long way – but has a long way yet to go. Watch for further development of this “newest” of waterfront destinations.”

Here is the original post: The First Port Covington Website
Here is the original “About” page: About PortCovington.com

Of course, big things are happening today. That can all be seen at the website for the development project – some call it Personal Computer City, based on the (strange) domain name they chose, PC.City or PortCovington.city. (Side Note: We can only imagine that the Intel Corporation loves that choice of domain name – the common understanding of “PC” is either Politically Correct or it means Personal Computer, aka PC. Because dot-com is still the defacto standard for serious commercial websites, tons of people will type in PC.com instead of PC.city.) (Side note #2: Don’t even get me started on email errors.)

So what’s in the future for PortCovington.com? One day, once the building out has reached a level where leases are in place and a thriving business and residential community exists – the site will be re-launched as a robust website for the Port Covington Community, then and now.

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