Comptroller Bill Henry has reached back to a stalwart from the Sheila Dixon administration, appointing Andrew B. “Andy” Frank as his new $110,000-a-year deputy director of real estate.
Last seen in City Hall as deputy mayor for neighborhood and economic development and “first among equals” who advised Dixon, Frank left in 2010 to become a special advisor to Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels.
His departure came shortly after Dixon resigned as Baltimore’s mayor following her conviction for embezzling gift cards intended for needy families.
Before that, Frank was the executive vice president of the quasi-public Baltimore Development Corporation during a period when enormous tax breaks were arranged by the city for Harbor Point developer John Paterakis Sr. and Dixon’s former boyfriend, Ron Lipscomb.
Community leaders, developers break ground on new East Baltimore Historical Library site
The library will preserve the history of East Baltimore and will be housed in three row homes adjoining Henderson-Hopkins School
Image caption: Community leaders and developers prepare to break ground on the East Baltimore Historical Library
Credit: Will Kirk / Johns Hopkins University By Jacob deNobel / Published Feb 12, 2021
Volunteers from the East Baltimore Historical Library, a resident-driven initiative that preserves, interprets, and shares the history of East Baltimore, broke ground on the library s new space and the collection s first permanent home at the Henderson-Hopkins School, Thursday afternoon.
During the event, members of the library and community partners dedicated the new space to the late Hattie Harrison, who served in the Maryland General Assembly from 1973 until 2013. Harrison, a neighborhood champion and representative of
ages. good housing stock. they were built for worker s families and not built for unemployment or on welfare. the people that live there don t have the job opportunities that people used to have and something s got to be done summer jobs real jobs training. you talk to me like mayor nutter of philly wish they had the money to do this to train people so they can move on. a big part of frustration that touches on what was just said is economics. baltimore trying to emerge into the 21st century bigger better stronger than its past and the reality is as they pushed that development east, and i served on the east baltimore development the inner harbor? heading east out, hopkins and alled corporate interests had begun to redevelop and redesign that area, the one question i asked in my very first meeting as lieutenant governor and chair that have committee is what happens to the 75-year-old