BALTIMORE, MD (WBFF) — Baltimore officials are weighing whether to maintain industrial uses along the Jones Falls or begin transforming the corridor into a greener, more resilient riverfront — a decision that could reshape miles of the city’s landscape and determine how it confronts worsening flood risk.
After City Council legislation to move a waste transfer station from Sisson Street to Falls Road met with strong community opposition last summer, Mayor Brandon Scott created a task force to deliver recommendations on the site’s future. That group has since released a draft which considers the impacts of a move, keeping the station open permanently or closing it after certain metrics are met.
Other groups, meanwhile, have offered competing visions of the larger Jones Falls corridor.
Thibault Manekin, co-founder of developer Seawall, said backlash to the proposed transfer station relocation led the company to purchase property behind the Sisson Street Drop-Off Center, where an uncovered segment of the Jones Falls runs through.
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