Contest to design a better Pratt St corridor

Thursday October 05, 2006

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One downside to living in Baltimore is the lack of a shopping "district" for normal day-today things like clothes, electronics...just stuff. We always find ourselves driving to either White Marsh or some other suburb which kind of defeats living in a city. Hopefully, one of the new proposals that will enter the contest to redesign Pratt St will include a shopping area that is nice enough for a tourist area but not so upscale no one really shops there...it should be a functional part of the city.

My suggestions would be:

• Consider a Pratt St/Lombard St corridor
• Use a free or cheap (25c) circulating bus to ride up and down the corridor
• Bike stations for locals to commute into the area
• A scaled down Target
• Street kiosks with touristy things
• Two additional street performer/learning areas
• A 5-7 screen multiplex theater
• A monorail to Patterson Park

Ok...you don't need that last one...but it would be cool.

A new avenue of thought - baltimoresun.com