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There will not be a grocery store at the Charles Village site adjacent to JHU ( Baltimore Sun ) Mount Vernon Mill No. 1 has 25 of its apartments rented. First tenets move in May 1st. ( Baltimore Business Journal ) JHU Nursing graduate among the wounded in the April 15th bombings at the Boston Marathon (hub.jhu.edu) Baltimore City might (finally) be (almost) cracking down on illegal dirt bikes , just send them an email! ( Baltimore Fishbowl ) New Southbound platforms at Halethorpe MARC station will open on Monday. The Northbound platform and new overhead walkway and elevators will open in June. (MTA Maryland) Pro-transit coalition in Canton wants streetcars instead of the Red Line on the east side, and wants those streetcars to go no where near Canton. ( Baltimore Brew )

For the past several years, there has been a push to put a streetcar along Charles Street, but let's just say there has been some resistance from some of the communities along Charles Street who feel that it will cause more trouble than good. I am definitely in favor of creating a new streetcar line in Baltimore, but I am not fully sold on the route that is currently being proposed by the Baltimore Streetcar Campaign. The proposed route goes up starts at the Inner Harbor, goes north on Calvert, turns west on Redwood, and then north on Charles until University Parkway, where it loops and turns south on St. Paul Street. It then turns west on Mt Royal and then South on Maryland Ave/Cathedral Street/Liberty Street/Hopkins Place/Sharp Street turns east on Conway and then north on Light Street back to the Inner Harbor. In my opinion there are two issues with this route: 1.) Charles Street is narrow and congested through Mount Vernon until past Penn Station; and 2.) the route on the s...