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Welcome
A Center for Community Arts, Education, and Training
A Center for Community Arts, Education, and TrainingA Center for Community Arts, Education, and TrainingA Center for Community Arts, Education, and TrainingMission Statement
The redevelopment of the Unity Hall at 1505 Eutaw Place into a Center for Community Arts, Education and Training is being undertaken collaboratively with community input to create a common vision and commitment to serve the needs of the surrounding communities in West Central Baltimore. The Unity Hall is intended to break down barriers that have traditionally divided the community and to build a healthy, safe neighborhood for all, by providing offices and working spaces for organizations offering programs beneficial to the community. It will be run on a non-profit basis.
The Memorial Apartments Corporation (MAC), a 501c3 non-profit entity is partnering again with Somerset Development Company, LLC to acquire, renovate and transform the former Empowerment Temple into a Center for Community Arts, Education and Job-Training. Once renovations of the commercial kitchen and theater are complete in the Winter of 2020, the Unity Hall will bring neighbors together from the surrounding communities of Bolton Hill, Madison Park, and Upton through cultural and educational activities, and job-training programs. The Unity Hall will provide a venue for local theater and musical events, art exhibits, catered events, culinary arts training and flexible space for other training programs, meetings, and services as well as offices for service-oriented non-profits.
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Project Timeline
January 2019
In partnership with Somerset Development Company, LLC, MAC--a neighborhood 501c3-- purchased the former Empowerment Temple which was vacant and distressed with plans transform the building into a Center for Community Arts, Education and Job Training.
Spring 2019
Outreach to local nonprofit organizations began to identify interested partners. A neighborhood Vision Session was hosted at Pedestal Gardens Apartments in June with standing room only. A Baltimore Union Hall Advisory Board meeting made up of representatives of MAC, key Anchor Tenants, community engagement organizers as well as staff from the development team was formed.
Summer-Fall 2019
The development team hired Ziger Snead Architects to draw up plans for interior demolition and to remove hazardous materials which were completed in October. Schematic Design drawings were complete in early November.
Fall 2019
Community outreach continued with Union Hall Advisory Board members attending meetings with the Bolton Hill Community Association, Upton Planning Committee, and Madison Park Improvement Association. Listening sessions with neighborhood residents are conducted.
November 23, 2019
Community event at the Y at 1609 Druid Hill Avenue brings neighbors together to discuss the Center for Community Arts, Education, and Job Training at the Unity Hall.
Spring 2020
Construction documents will be finalized and construction will begin to update the theatre, kitchen, banquet hall and common spaces, and to build new music and artist studios, and offices.
Winter 2020
The Baltimore Unity Hall will be completed and open to neighbors for community gatherings, theatre productions, culinary arts training programs, with offices and artist spaces complete.
community events
Baltimore Unity Hall Listening Session
Baltimore Unity Hall Listening Session
Baltimore Unity Hall Listening Session
Pedestal Gardens Apartments
325 McMechen St., Baltimore, MD 21217
October 30th, 2019
Vision Session
Baltimore Unity Hall Listening Session
Baltimore Unity Hall Listening Session
Pedestal Gardens Apartments
325 McMechen St, Baltimore, MD 21217
June 12, 2019
partners
Memorial Apartments Corporation
Memorial Apartments Corporation
Memorial Apartments Corporation
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Founded in 1964 to develop affordable housing for low-income seniors, MAC has expanded its mission to help create anchors of stability and opportunity within our community. MAC is dedicated to enriching the lives of the residents of Linden Park and Central West Baltimore by supporting development which will promote learning, healthy living, meaningful social interaction, life planning, and neighborhood union.
Somerset Development Company
Memorial Apartments Corporation
Memorial Apartments Corporation
Somerset is a socially responsible real estate development company which focuses on expanding affordability and revitalizing communities. Our expertise in multi-family residential development includes historic preservation; new markets, historic, and low income housing tax credits; new construction, major renovations, market rate and affordable residential development, all in transit-oriented locations in underserved communities.
https://somersetdev.com/
Citizen's Policing Project, CPP
Memorial Apartments Corporation
BOND: Building our Nation's Daughters
The CPP, focuses on five major components of the process and procedures that have traditionally omitted the input and concerns of the residents of communities of color and lower socioeconomic status, and institute methods that empower the community to take the initiative to get involved and in front of the Consent Decree implementation process and Police policy and procedure in Baltimore City.
BOND: Building our Nation's Daughters
BOND: Building our Nation's Daughters
BOND: Building our Nation's Daughters
Building Our Nation’s Daughters works to engage, mentor, and build single mothers in Baltimore to cultivate positive mother-daughter relationships, strengthen single-mother families, and lead advocacy efforts to ensure every single mother household has equitable access to opportunities.
The Community Builders
BOND: Building our Nation's Daughters
The Community Builders
The Community Builders is a leading nonprofit real estate developer that owns or manages more than 11,000 quality apartments. Our business, infrastructure and community program investments help make neighborhoods work for people of all incomes.