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December 20, 2007

New neighbor for homeowner

In case you missed Steve Kiehl's front-page story today, check it out HERE for an unusual twist to the usual tale of redevelopment. He tells of Darlene Dixon, who did not want to sell her rowhouse "to make way for the University of Maryland, Baltimore's new west-side biotechnology park" -- and didn't have to in the end:

The developer built around her. And now, just off Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Dixon's little rowhouse rubs elbows with a six-story, 220,000- square-foot biotech building that is home to cutting-edge genome research - an incongruous juxtaposition of Baltimore's past and future.

If nothing else, you'll want to see the photograph.

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About Jamie Smith Hopkins

Jamie Smith Hopkins, a Baltimore Sun reporter since 1999, writes about the regional economy. Her reporting on the housing market has won national and local awards. Hopkins is a Columbia native and has lived in Maryland all her life, save for 10 months spent covering schools in Ames, Iowa.
She trained to become a wonk by spending large chunks of time as a geek and an insufferable know-it-all.
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