Canton pavilions proposed

The Main Street-style shopping center planned for a former oil refinery site in the Canton Crossing mixed-use development - likely to be anchored by Target and grocer Harris Teeter - will include two large ...

[Delighted on Decker]

Great news - can't wait for this to come to fruition!

[FuninBmore]

Finally our prayers for Target and a larger/additional grocery store will be answered!!!

[Local]

Great concept and I welcome the developement, but what happens to the Clinton St access to the Mc Henry tunnel.

[dave z]

with such great new ammendities going in it's time to scoop up an abandoned houseboat and moor up

[Happy Canton Homeowner]

Finally!!

[Dunn]

This is exactly what the East-side needs. My wife goes to the 'burbs to shop. I dislike ever having to leave town just to go to the 'burbs to get something, and don't have to any more. Retail is getting better in town monthly. I am really looking forward to the Baltimore of 2012!

[Reader]

I'd like to know how the Sun pick and choses what stroies we readers can comment on. Anyone know ?

[ssm]

Reader wrote:

I'd like to know how the Sun pick and choses what stroies we readers can comment on. Anyone know ?

Iwould like to know the same thing.

[ssm]

It is about time the people in Baltimore have a place to grocery shop and have stores that cater to their needs instead of stores that sells things people don't need.

[Tim A]

I think reopening the oil refinery would have been a much more beneficial.

[Drew]

Hopefully the deign panel members' comments included "redesign those tired-looking pavillions." Here again we see the arbitrary new-made-to-look-old design that seems to be the preferred medium in Baltimore.

If we choose to "look forward to the Baltimore of 2012", our new built environment should reflect current and future design principals, not a bastardization of the past.

[Dave]

Any environmental concepts associated with this design?

[Joe]

Ugly and vile. Greedy developers are destroying the waterfront. Aren't there enough ugly hotels and shopping centers and luxury high rises?

[Brandon]

Ugly and vile? Have you seen what the land where this development is going currently looks like? You're speaking from a point of ignorance Joe. This will be a welcome addition.

[Drew]

Brandon wrote:

Ugly and vile? Have you seen what the land where this development is going currently looks like? You're speaking from a point of ignorance Joe. This will be a welcome addition.

So by that rationale, "anything is better than noting", right? This isn't something that, if poorly executed, gets a do-over. This is something that is going to serve as an anchor to the eastern end of the harbor for decades to come. Should we not demand better than the equivelant of a carbon copy of "The Avenue at White Marsh" transposed onto an urban site?

This rant is all for naught, unfortunately. It will be built and it will be hideous. I can only hope that they are smart enough to incorporate underground parking so that the view from Boston Street is not of parking lots, garages, and the backs of buildings (just like White Marsh!).

[Steev]

Yeah, Joe's comment is laughable. I suggest you go there now, and look at the urban-wasteland currently on the site, and see if you still feel that way.
And to answer another of your questions, no, we have nowhere to shop in Canton. We have to drive up I-95 to Whitemarsh and help Baltimore County's economy, or go through the tunnel and shop in Arundel Mills, and help AA County's economy, or go downtown (which takes just as long as driving to Whitemarsh), and pay through the nose to park. Walking or driving a short distance to nice stores in my neighborhood and helping the economy of the City I pay taxes to is vastly preferable.

[westside]

Steev wrote:

Yeah, Joe's comment is laughable. I suggest you go there now, and look at the urban-wasteland currently on the site, and see if you still feel that way.

I'm there weekly and still agree with Joe. The First Mariner tower is hands-down the ugliest high rise in Baltimore and what's proposed here is just more of the same. Nobody's saying this project shouldn't get done, some of us are just questioning the lackluster design. Why is that so wrong?

[westside]

ssm wrote:

It is about time the people in Baltimore have a place to grocery shop and have stores that cater to their needs instead of stores that sells things people don't need.

I guess you haven't been to Canton lately. There's a Safeway just a few blocks from where this project's going. Next door and across the street from that are the American Can Co and Lighthouse Point, which are mostly filled with the same types of establishments you'd find in a suburban strip mall.

[Rich]

I go to target maybe twice a year. and they got harris teeter where my parents live. just another grocery store. good to get new retail in the city, definitely, but nothing exciting to me. wow, maybe a new CVS next? whoopie

[Tip]

Reader wrote:

I'd like to know how the Sun pick and choses what stroies we readers can comment on. Anyone know ?

They generally do the lightweight stuff like this story. Fluff and not particularly controversial. As far as who and how only the Sun knows for sure. I can say that having posted on Sun articles for more than a year they most definitely stay away from stories that enrage the average decent citizen. Like black perpetrated hate crimes, outrageous murders by same, and corruption committed by city officials.
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