(BALTIMORE – October 29, 2025) – Tonight’s West Baltimore Business Meeting at The Mill on North is the fruit of years of quiet labor by committed Baltimoreans who see the bigger picture. You won’t find these people in headlines or viral clips — they’re too busy in the trenches, building block by block, nurturing the next harvest of hope. And every now and then, a leader emerges. Then another.
Ten years ago, West Baltimore stood in ashes after the city’s first major uprising in nearly half a century. Smoke lingered at Penn-North. Glass crunched beneath every step. The fire at the CVS burned on national television while the world watched Baltimore’s pain. Yet amid the chaos, residents — traumatized but determined — came together to clean, rebuild, and feed their neighbors.
They did what Baltimoreans always do: they showed up…