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Harbor East Baltimore

A thriving city-within-a-city across the Harbor from South Baltimore.

Where casual, fun and fine dining, great places to live in newly rebuilt condominiums/apartments, great places to shop and lively entertainment create a wonderful place to be. Of course, don’t forget the proximity to the waterfront and downtown Baltimore in this walkabout neighborhood. Imagine the economic health of the Inner Harbor being combined with the rich history, culture and tradition of East Baltimore. A win-win for sure.

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The area of Baltimore once called Inner Harbor East is now simply called “Harbor East.” It is a truly wonderful example of mixed-use urban development/redevelopment. A half billion dollars worth of construction made a huge impact and now Harbor East offers all the amenities which modern urban dwellers seek. Some may use the term “urban chic” to describe being a part of this neighborhood (in fact, there’s go to be an upscale shop with that name somewhere in the center of all the action).

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With a dozen square blocks of the ultimate in City Life, this desirable neighborhood is bounded by Fleet Street on the north; S. Caroline Street to the east; Lancaster Street, the Promenade and waters of the Patapsco River to the south; and the Jones Falls (stream, not expressway) and the Promenade to the west. Aliceanna Street (west-east) bisects the neighborhood horizontally and provides a walkway parallel to the Promenade along the water.

Walking in Inner Harbor East appears as a focus of the urban structure allowing residents and visitors easy access to the waterfront near the high-rise condos/apartments, offices and newly built hotels, such as the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel. Retail business includes a modern (and popular) market, up-scale shops with an urban theme, a “Landmark” 7-screen theater (get your movie tickets now), and a pleasing variety of eateries. Urban sprawl is no longer in vogue; instead, this implementation of creative urban development is pedestrian friendly, uses less land, is environmentally friendly and brings a valuable neighborhood to Baltimore City.

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Port Covington

A brief look at the southern shore of the South Baltimore Peninsula.

About time, right?

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The first iteration of the PortCovington.com website was recorded by the Internet Archive “Wayback Machine” on February 2, 2004, just over a week after the domain was registered. As near as we can tell, this was the first website solely about Port Covington and its role as a South Baltimore “neighborhood” among the myriad neighborhoods in the City of Baltimore and on the Baltimore peninsula south of the Inner Harbor.

The small bit of narrative was much as the “intro” to the site today. It reads: “In mid-2002, the world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart, opened its first Baltimore City stores at Port Covington in the South Baltimore area. Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club are the first retailers to locate in the new Port Covington Shopping Center , a 60-acre, waterfront site on East Cromwell Street. Several hundred City jobs were created when the 142,000 square foot Wal-Mart and the 130,000 square foot Sam’s Club opened their doors. This strategically-located retail development at the site of a former City rail yard has come a long way – but has a long way yet to go. Watch for further development of this “newest” of waterfront destinations.”

Here is the original post: The First Port Covington Website
Here is the original “About” page: About PortCovington.com

Of course, big things are happening today. That can all be seen at the website for the development project – some call it Personal Computer City, based on the (strange) domain name they chose, PC.City or PortCovington.city. (Side Note: We can only imagine that the Intel Corporation loves that choice of domain name – the common understanding of “PC” is either Politically Correct or it means Personal Computer, aka PC. Because dot-com is still the defacto standard for serious commercial websites, tons of people will type in PC.com instead of PC.city.) (Side note #2: Don’t even get me started on email errors.)

So what’s in the future for PortCovington.com? One day, once the building out has reached a level where leases are in place and a thriving business and residential community exists – the site will be re-launched as a robust website for the Port Covington Community, then and now.

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Port Covington Real Estate

The first online version of PortCovingtonRealEstate.com appeared over a decade ago.

Location, location, location – right?

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The first iteration of a website with this domain, PortCovingtonRealEstate.com, was put online back on February 16, 2006. The domain, itself, was registered a year earlier in February, 2005. That makes this domain “very old” in Internet time. But the saying is – “Good things come to those who wait” – right? Web developers also understand that “old” domains get a boost in the search engines – so waiting is not a bad thing.

Once a railroad terminal, Port Covington is being redeveloped into a brand new, prime mixed-use city neighborhood on the waterfront in Baltimore, Maryland. In May 2019 ground was broken for the development of the Port Covington region of Baltimore, Maryland. This 230 +/- acre parcel is becoming a whole new section of Baltimore. It is, currently, the largest urban renewal project along the East Coast of the United States.

This website, Port Covington Real Estate, can be a point of information about the development of the area and what it may mean to future tenants and property owners. We are not, I repeat, we are not real estate agents, Realtors, real estate brokers or property investors or developers. What we are amounts to a local family happy to see positive growth in “our city” that has been so bereft with problems. If we can help point you in the direction of professional real estate services then so much the better.

The domain name, PortCovingtonRealEstate.com may be for sale. If you are interested in acquiring this valuable Internet property send an email to Bill (at) SouthBaltimore.com or leave a statement in the comments below.