You're telling me that we had this huge plot of post-industrial land with literally nothing on it, total blank slate, and the developers that be decided the best use of the space was a fucking suburban strip mall?!

I came by bus (and not even the gold because that got cancelled) and so I had the joy of walking from brewers hill to the shopping center, and it's just a complete slog. Not only do you need to cross a busy 4 lane road, the actual development itself is 80% bare asphalt and concrete, baking in the summer heat, with sad little stunted non-native trees and bushes that give zero respite from the heat (let alone a sense of place or pride), and all that for a bunch of lame chain stores with nothing to distinguish it from anywhere else in the entire country. It's an absolute travesty and massive missed opportunity.

I get it, brewers hill and canton have gentrified pretty heavily, there's probably some demand for a target and whatnot in that area, but anyone with even a sliver of vision could have at LEAST gone to the trouble of building some more 5 over 1 apartments with ground floor commercial, and tried to make it even remotely pedestrian friendly.

Or perhaps, god forbid, you could even put a park in the development, surround it with mixed use housing/commercial, and have one parking garage tucked off to the side for cars.

The damn parking garage near shot tower metro has more personality than all of canton crossing, because at least that parking garage has local restaurants like poyoteca and kabul grill.

As-is, Canton Crossing is more than just poorly designed, it's an embarrassment to the city. I can't believe this is a brand new development that was only built in the last decade, and it feels like a 1970s strip mall built on the side of a highway.

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if you were self-checking out at Whole Foods today (7/22) around 3pm, you left your card in the card reader! I didn’t notice and accidentally charged my basket to your card, but customer service voided the payment and has your card ready for pickup. you were wearing a light colored shirt and a bandanna.

hope you get it back! good luck!

There’s an older white guy that walks his two very big dogs off-leash. I usually encounter him around the Mount Vernon area (around the monuments) at 5 AM. If you walk your dogs off leash in a city you don’t care about them. I said what I said. There’s so many things that can go wrong that he’s not prepared for. He’s usually ahead of them too so, idk.

spotted near Patterson Park. (jokes aside, I love this city and feel bad comparing it to Gotham. the sight was just too funny)

Hey all! Back again inviting you to come join team Awful Waffle tonight at Peabody heights for free trivia starting at 7:30!

I formed this team about two years ago solely from reddit and some folks have wandered in and out. Hoping maybe you will want to come by and give it a try!

Just ask the trivia host/trivia master who team Awful Waffle is and join us for a really good time.

These grocery prices are killing me. I am going to go for a club membership but I am not sure which one to go for. Costco seems like the best one but they don't do curbside pickup, which I like to do. Sam's is obviously Walmart owned, don't love that. I know nothing about BJs. They are all about the same distance from me in NE, give or take. Family wants to do Costco so I am leaning that way. For those that know, what do you use / prefer?

The charm city circulator's bus tracker was a uniquely useful app (via Passiogo). I've been using it for a few years and found it much better than any other bus app, including Transit. It was really an excellent tool.

Why is it so good? Because there's ONE view with everything you need on it. You don't need a bus schedule, you just look at where the busses are on the map and see which ones you can make. Or, if no bus is nearby, you can do something else rather than wait for 30 minutes. You can see all the bus routes at once, which tells you which connections are likely. You can see if there is a route change or service interruption (eg, no busses running at all), or if all of the busses are packed into one corner of the route (which happens often.... why not have dispatch watch the tracker?).

They're moving to Tripshot --- but nothing's there. It's been weeks. I would think that you'd keep Passiogo operating until Tripshot was up and running and then transition.

We still have Transit, but frankly Transit is garbage. Transit requires lots of fidgeting with it to get what you need, and it's too easy to make a mistake and wait for the wrong bus or direction. Plus, the bus tracker is wrong 50% of the time: it shows busses imminently arriving that don't exist, and doesn't show others that do exist, and arrival times which repeatedly expire with no bus. The app does quite a lot but it's not good at the most essential things it needs to do.

So: can Baltimore DoT PLEASE reactivate Passiogo? It's still running but only tracking two busses (and they are wrong color).

Maybe something is going over my head, but my expected fees of renewal for one year are $120.50. The price is exactly double for two years, and exactly triple for three years.

Since there are no discounts for renewing for multiple years, is there any benefit at all to renewing more than one year at a time (besides not having to dealing with it again a year from now)?

From my perspective, I have no clue how long I'll have the same car for. Therefore, I don't really see a benefit for me in paying for two or three years, if I end up changing this car in 8 months, for example.

I was taking both my and my wife's cars to Jeff at Sisson Street. He was the best mechanic I ever knew, and within a few months his shop was marked "permanently closed" on multiple maps and review websites, the website is gone, no news or forum articles about it, and nobody answers the phone.

What happened? Did Jeff die?

If he doesn't have a shop open somewhere else, is there any other good mechanic in Baltimore that doesn't try to screw people over?

I’m craving fried green tomatoes so badly, preferably with crab meat. But, I’m open to other options as I saw a place did them with shrimp salad?? Not sure how I feel about that, but I have to admit I am curious. Can you please drop your best spot for fried green tomatoes in the city? Or county, if it’s not crazy far!

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Join us on Ann St in Upper Fell’s Point at a 175-year-old firehouse. Since 1987, it has been the home of the fabulous Fells Point Corner Theatre! Tune in to discover the rowdy story of early fire companies in Baltimore and the history of how this little theatre came to be. Thanks for watching and see you soon with another video.

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Has anyone else been approached by members of the River Church, or come upon their public gatherings?

On probably three or four occasions, both in the city and county, I have been handed promotional cards by church members.

I also happened to be at the Washington Monument when they arrived to hold a service there, and earlier this month, I was on Pratt St. where they had apparently just left, and saw the cards scattered on the pavement.

21F looking for a gym buddy that enjoys lifting weights. I’ve been lifting for about 3 years now and I fell off due to letting my depression get the best of me. Now I’ve been back sort of consistently (3-4x a week) after realizing that doing what I used to enjoy doing would help me (and it has). The anhedonia can get to me at times and I still make excuses sometimes, but I’ve found that working out with other people really gives me that drive that I’ve been looking for. Friendly competition lol.

I have a PF black card but I’m open to trying other gyms if that’s an issue. My training consists of 2-3 lower days and 1-2 upper + deep core days, also I enjoy doing cardio after each session just based off of my goals and what not. Open to working out with men or women who aren’t scared to lift heavy!

We are staying in Jessup and are trying to figure out the best way to get into Baltimore. Not really wanting to drive since we plan on drinking. Is Uber going to be the best idea or are there other options? Train? Bus? I’m from a small town so driving is the only option for us and so I am kinda lost on how transport in and around Baltimore would work.

Anybody know of Sprint groups that meet up and do short sprint competitive workouts

Looking for guys focused on 60m-200m competition sprints

Can anyone speak to the reliability of the 21? For whatever reason, the real time tracking is almost never there in the transit app for me except maybe at the last minute - I've missed the bus a couple times bc the tracking didn't start until it was already too late. However it does seem like it came at or around the scheduled time, it just wasn't being tracked.

I want to take it down to Canton this Saturday for an event at 10am, would be picking it up from the Hampden stop. Can I trust it to arrive at the stop around the scheduled time even without any real-time tracking, or should I find another way? The 21 would be a straight shot so I'd really like to take it if possible.

I enjoy magic the gathering but it looks like most lgs there are closed on Mondays.

I am looking to get battery replacement for my IPhone. What are some recommended repair shops?

Moving to Baltimore from a much larger city. Significant other will be working on north side of the city. I will be commuting to Annapolis daily (~6:30A Baltimore->Annapolis in the morning). Initially was hoping to live in Canton, but feel as though the traffic across the tunnel will add a lot to my commute. We're in our mid-30's and are interested in having a somewhat city living experience so we want to live in the city. We're looking for a safe area with some interesting restaurants and bars, and are likely to start a family in the next couple of years.

So far, we've found some options in Locust Point, Otterbein, and Brewer's Hill. Would love thoughts on the different vibes of the neighborhoods. In our current city, we really love the ability to walk to restaurants and bars near our home but understand every city is different. Will going through the tunnel on the way home be a big deal for Brewers Hill?

Thanks for your help!