A controversial development project sponsored by the University has started construction on another 57 acres of housing in East Baltimore, while a majority of the 800 residents displaced during the first phase of construction will not be returning to the neighborhood they once called home.East Baltimore Development, Inc. (EBDI) - a consortium of financial sponsors that includes Hopkins, the office of the mayor and the Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition - has been clearing neighborhoods to make room for a $1.8 billion biotechnology park, which the group says will help revitalize the historically-impoverished area.
