Community developer moves on
Many of the rehabbed homes in the Patterson Park neighborhood were done by the nonprofit Patterson Park Community Development Corp. to stop the decay and flight from the area in the 1990s. Now founder Ed Rutkowski is leaving the group, intending to do the same sort of community development in other Baltimore neighborhoods, Tricia Bishop reports today:
His work will initially be funded through a grant from the city's philanthropic Goldseker Foundation."I would have been happy to stay here forever in some sense," Rutkowski, 60, said yesterday. "But every once in a while, you need to refresh and renew, and this is just a tremendous opportunity to take what I've learned, presumably, and make good things happen, to continue."
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