After years of meetings, negotiations and design presentations aimed at replacing the crime-ridden Madison Park North public housing project that became known as the “Murder Mall,” developers David Bramble and Mark Renbaum finally have something to show for it.
Baltimore’s Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals voted unanimously Tuesday to approve an application from Bramble and Renbaum to construct 120 town homes in the 800 block of West North Avenue, former site of a housing complex that was such a trouble spot the city and federal governments joined forces to tear it down.
The vote was the first of two key hurdles the developers need to clear in order to begin their much-anticipated revitalization of the now-vacant Madison Park North property, a strategic location between Bolton Hill and Reservoir Hill, Station North and West Baltimore.
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