In Baltimore, Under Armour’s owner invests in a $5.5 billion bet on his city (35,000 jobs)

Curbed ^ | April 11, 2017 | Patrick Sisson

[safeasthebanks]

“That’s not a black area. It sounds like Fells Point.”

Not really. I believe this is the area kinda south of Federal Hill/Fort Avenue. Still slightly west of Fort McHenry.

Right across the river from Cherry Hill and Harbor Hospital - easily accessible by the Hanover Street bridge (yikes!).

[COBOL2Java]

Maybe they can build on the site of the old CVS Store

[VietVet876]

Fells Point is correct. Not a totally black area but within shuffling distance to drug-ridden gang-controlled ghettos. Fells Point had a nice little Farmer’s Market every Saturday morning on the square at the foot of Broadway just northwest from Plank’s new hotel. Two people killed this market: the little nickle-bag smack dealer Freddie Gray and Kevin Plank. Freddie because the negroid intifada after his death last spring brought the looters into the Green Zone of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor and surrounding yuppified neighborhoods and drove all the local farmer’s market shoppers to the suburbs and killed the tourist trade perhaps for years. So that was Freddie’s contribution. Now Kevin Plank buys (or is given) the City-owned pier and proceeds to build his hotel. The construction crew consisted of mostly Mexicans of questionable immigrant status who would arrive on the job before dawn on Saturday mornings and take all the parking spots reserved for farmer’s market vendors and customers. Of course all the Mexicans drove huge pickup trucks that would take up two or more spaces. The vendors and some residents complained to the City and Plank rented garage parking space nearby but the lazy beaners ignored the garages. Now since Plank’s hotel was almost complete, the square where the farmer’s market was held needed a multi-million dollar City-funded upgrade. New curbing, paving, a water fountain or two on an area around an acre, maybe acre and a half. So good luck to Plank. I have a feeling that all this money he is investing is probably not really his money and I would look carefully of divesting in the UA stock gradually if it is in your portfolio.