Head over to Harbor East and you may find the gentle cadence of a Baltimore accent overwhelmed by those of our neighbors to the north. The Boston Globe featured Harbor East as a travel destination in Sunday's paper.
Here's an excerpt:
"As recently as a decade ago, if you asked a Baltimore resident directions to Harbor East, you were likely to get a puzzled "where?''
"Nobody came here,'' said Tony Foreman, a native son who along with his wife, chef Cindy Wolf, has been a driver in the neighborhood's development. "It was all industrial warehouses, parking lots, and biker bars.''
Tracy Wise, who tends bar at the trendy tapas lounge Pazo, remembers it this way: "Seven years ago, you needed either a machete or a machine gun to walk around here,'' she said.
No more. The neighborhood's evolution, fueled by the opening of a 753-room Marriott Waterfront Hotel, restaurants like Foreman and Wolf's Charleston, smart boutiques, and even a Whole Foods, is firmly progressing. Add in a Four Seasons, opening in 2011, and a new Legg Mason office tower, part of a $550 million mixed-use development project, and it's clear why Harbor East is Baltimore's fastest growing neighborhood."
Read the full article here.