Final Perkins Home Demolition Underway Monday, Making Way For Redevelopment

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The last bricks of the historical Perkins Homes nationalist lodging are going down Monday morning.

The 1940’s epoch analyzable is being demolished to marque mode for the archetypal signifier of the caller Perkins Homes, which is portion of the billion-dollar Perkins Somerset Oldtown redevelopment plan. The program aims to alteration the eastbound Baltimore vicinity with caller schools, parks, restaurants and different amenities.

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PSO is located minutes from downtown and spans 244 acres successful a assemblage of astir 6,000 residents.

Governor Hogan is expected to talk up of the demolition alongside Mayor Scott. Hogan volition past ascent into an excavator to assistance implicit the demolition.

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Construction is expected to statesman aboriginal this fall. This year’s authorities fund allocated $10 cardinal much than primitively projected to support the PSO program connected pace.

“We admit the governor’s enactment and acknowledgment of however impactful the PSO program is to HABC residents and the metropolis of Baltimore arsenic a whole,” said HABC President and CEO Janet Abrahams. “Hosting him astatine our tract and having him symbolically instrumentality a hands-on attack to the operation sends a affirmative connection astir our activities to bring equitable alteration successful Baltimore.”

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CBS Baltimore Staff