MEET AT MCKELDIN SQUARE AT 4:30.

We've invited the Baltimore Development Corporation to a public meeting. President Jay Brodie has accepted that invitation. So on Monday, we are going to have a little chat. Outside, on the steps of the BDC. Please come out and show your support!

The Baltimore Development Corporation should, as a publicly-funded organization entrusted with the public... [read more]

MEET AT MCKELDIN SQUARE AT 4:30.

We've invited the Baltimore Development Corporation to a public meeting. President Jay Brodie has accepted that invitation. So on Monday, we are going to have a little chat. Outside, on the steps of the BDC. Please come out and show your support!

The Baltimore Development Corporation should, as a publicly-funded organization entrusted with the public mission of promoting local economic development, be accountable to this city’s residents. Instead, we find that the BDC uses technicalities and legal loopholes to hide from democratic control and accountability behind its technical status as a private non-profit, making deals ostensibly in the name of Baltimore—and more often than not involving Baltimore’s tax dollars—without Baltimore getting any real, effective say in what those deals are. This is an unacceptable and untenable situation.

More specifically, there are three core problems in the operations of the BDC that must be urgently addressed:

1) The BDC’s lack of transparency

2) The BDC’s lack of commitment to economic human rights

3) The BDC’s lack of vision and popular participation

http://anotherbdcispossible.org/