Nearly a dozen panelists gathered by the Greater Baltimore Committee on Wednesday laid out a case for how important a Red Line project is for Baltimore’s economic future.
But the points detailed also held an undercurrent of uncertainty: How to pay for the estimated $7 billion mass transit project?
That’s a question being debated throughout the city since the Nov. 5 general election — and some of that anxiety filtered into the GBC event titled “Billion Dollar Opportunities: Transit-Oriented Development along the Red Line” held at Brown Advisory’s conference room in Fells Point.
GBC panelists included Harborplace developer P. David Bramble, Harbor Point and Penn Station developer Max Beatty, Amtrak executive Luigi Rosa and Faith Leach, the city’s chief administrative officer. All spoke of how an east-west Red Line could positively impact their projects and the city’s landscape.
