Charles North Vision Plan

The City of Baltimore unveiled the multiphase Charles North Vision Plan to turn a 100-acre arts and entertainment district north of Penn Station into a $1 billion “cultural crossroads” including 1,900 housing units, 557,000 sq. ft. of retail, 300,000 sq. ft. of offices, and 4,700 parking spaces. Building on renewal efforts already under way, the plan by BTA+ of Cambridge, Massachusetts, could take three decades to reach fruition. Penn Station, built in 1911 as the city’s grand main arrival point for trains, would be expanded to include a hotel and shopping arcade north of the tracks, the Baltimore Sun reported. It would be part of the city’s largest transit-oriented development.