BALTIMORE (WBFF) — At 5 N. Howard St. sits a vacant building painted with a blue leopard. Its front door is boarded up, the gates locked tight.
The property was supposed to become the new home of Bmore Empowered, a nonprofit serving Black women and girls that received $80,000 in taxpayer-backed funding from May 2024 to November 2024 through the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore’s BOOST program to open a storefront there. But the doors never opened.
Instead, the nonprofit – whose operations director is Hana Scott, wife of Mayor Brandon Scott – launched a storefront at 344 N. Charles St., where a sign now advertises available office space. In September, a landlord sued Bmore Empowered for unpaid rent at the N. Charles St. location and won a judgment for $3,514 after no one from the organization appeared in court, according to court documents. That same month, the nonprofit announced on Facebook that it was going on an “organizational pause” to “realign our resources.”…