@ZeuS44-g6y
that's one hell of a movie set!!
@_mazarico_
I’m a bike courier in Baltimore and I’ve done food deliveries a few times down by the Peninsula and yeah, it’s a ghost town. One big problem I see is that that whole area is basically cut off from the rest of the city thanks to the 95 Freeway. If you wanna enter it, you either take Hanover St, which sucks and is full of traffic (let’s not forget how awful the Hanover Bridge is), or you go on Key Hwy and McComas St. which is a one-way road. And that’s just for cars and busses. On foot or on bike, its a massive chore to get to because those roads are not pedestrian friendly. Why design this micro city with walkability and bike lanes in mind when getting there without a car is such a hassle? If the developers and city officials want more people coming in to live and shop in the Peninsula? They need to make it more accessible for people already in the city and not segregate it. But I’m pretty sure that was always the point; to keep the poor out. This neighborhood was built to attract wealthy newcomers, which doesn’t seem to be working.
@roosefeitosa2536
This project has so many parallels to what happens when people mismanage their personal finances. The whole "American Dubai" pitch reminds me of people overextending financially, buying luxury cars, maxing out credit cards, or jumping on high-risk investments, only to hit a wall when things slow down, like with the reduced demand for office space after the pandemic. If your foundation isn’t solid, you can’t just build shiny towers on top of it and expect long-term success.
@SnowmanTF2
It is so frustrating that so many of these urban renovations seem designed by people who have no idea what would make an area like this functional or self sustaining, let alone highly desirable.
@damianbarnes2717
I’m a Baltimore native. I live in west Baltimore and work in east Baltimore. I drive commercially for Amazon. I literally drive past this everyday . And I look over there and think to myself. What is that why have I never been there. And I’ve asked people I know have you been. They say no I don’t even know what’s over there.
@Mike-again
Anytime a would-be developer tells you he wants to build a local Dubai, shut that shit down! Dubai is a real-life “Metropolis” as in, the dystopia Fritz Lang dystopia released in 1927. That Arabian “Shangri-la depends on legions of slave labor to keep its Potemkin for the super rich propped up.
@randycornish64
"Less Dubai, more Columbia." slew me.😂💀 Great line!
@regularhumanoid
When this project was announced I was a college student, and I wrote an essay in my city budgeting class about how this project would be a failure because of it's isolation and lack of reasonably walkable connection to any other neighborhood. I begged everyone I knew to oppose this project, knowing the money was much needed more in so many other neighborhoods. But the project went ahead, the city lost the money, and sure enough it's a failure. Wow!! It's like I predicted exactly this would happen! Painful to see as someone who wants to see his hometown get a break from it's endless spiral downward.
@illhaveawtrplz
Thanks for making a video about this, I visit Baltimore a few times a year and had no idea that this had happened. It was a massive oversight to build this without first building a robust transit connection and addressing the I-95 road noise. Young 20 and 30 something Americans that flock to urban areas want walkability because they can’t or don’t want to deal with owning a car. Urban areas are one of the only places in America where a car-free or car-lite lifestyle is remotely possible — it’s a huge selling point. Rich developers can’t seem to understand this since they have so much money that owning a car is a trivial cost to them. It’s amazing how they can be so wealthy but miss the point so hard.
@TAllenYT
That is the most densely-packed set of conspicuously-visible security cameras I have ever seen outside of a military base.
@Grimmyke7
Can't sell to the middle class if the middle class has been killed off...
@malekkushimuzik3580
Baltimorean here..... Thanks for explaining what ive been seeing and answering the very questions I had in mind while riding through that area yesterday 👊🏿
@jiw1330164
Sometimes I do deliveries for Walmart or DoorDash on the side, and every time I deliver to this area I get this eerie feeling because there’s all this new construction and there’s no one there. It’s really surreal being down there and not seeing anyone.
@USVIsteve
Looks like an American version of one of those Chinese ghost cities. When people live by the adage, if we build it, they will come, and then they don’t
@sirbudsX27
This cool af to watch cause I did a lot of the plumbing and mechanical on a lot of those buildings you showed. Anchor Mechanical did the work
@jjandorliadul
Great entry. The constant humming of I-95 and surrounding traffic would drive me insane.
@michaelmaas5544
I knew nothing of this project before this video but I knew before watching that no private company lost money and I’ll bet my retirement that plenty of government officials lined their pockets.
@jeffhughes1862
Your videos look like incredibly realistic renders. This project feels like it could be anywhere—it just happened to be placed in Baltimore. The area’s history and architecture could have given it a unique sense of place, but by stripping it away, they created a liminal space that feels like nowhere at all.
@jbug1979
2:59 yesss i was waiting for clay davis and was not disappointed!!!
@colbyyoung9891