ABSTRACT
The planned 266-acre brownfield redevelopment, with 9 to 13 million square feet of possible development and up 14,000 housing units, is bigger than Baltimore's Harbor East, HarborPoint and Canton Crossing combined, all three recent waterfront redevelopment areas. The planned 3 million square feet for the headquarters alone are about the same as all the mixed-use development planned for HarborPoint, Baltimore's densest brownfield redevelopment. More importantly, the development could also be a trailblazer for a more equitable future. If all goes by the plan that was approved late in 2016, waterfront development won't be used to further accentuate the divide in the city, but to lift six disadvantaged adjacent communities by funding workforce development, providing affordable housing and providing best practice examples for smart and ecological sensible development. Port Covington's redevelopment began piecemeal. Port Covington's build-out is supposed to last over 20 to 25 years with a private investment estimated to exceed $5 billion.
