Market Center is
the heart of Baltimore.
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Home to World-Famous Lexington Market, Market Center is home to over 300 first floor organizations.
The former shopping district of the City hosts many local, Black, and women-owned businesses.
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Market Center has dozens of available retail spaces that are ready to build out your new business. Developers are restoring historic buildings and bringing life into this neighborhood.
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Both historic and new residents love living in Market Center for its central location, walkability, and diversity.
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Dozens of stakeholders in Market Center are banding together to fight for equitable development in the neighborhood. Join us!
Baltimore’s Market Center neighborhood is transforming the city. What was once Baltimore’s premiere shopping district is creating new jobs, businesses, and neighbors in the area surrounding the World Famous Lexington Market.
Come see for yourself - the history, culture, and opportunity here make Market Center one of Baltimore’s most unique neighborhoods.
The Market Center Community Development Corporation works alongside merchants, residents, organizations, and developers with a goal of development without displacement. Rebuilding Market Center equitably will put Baltimore on the map as a historic comeback without losing the fabric of the neighborhood.
After six years and the hard work of over 100 Market Center stakeholders
and supporters, the Market Center Strategic Revitalization Plan is complete and approved by the Baltimore City Planning Commission.
Wait. What’s the SRP?
The Strategic Revitalization Plan is a collaborative community document that outlines the strengths, benefits, weaknesses, and challenges in the Market Center neighborhood. It outlines visions we want to see in the future for a better neighborhood, as well as specific goals and strategies we can use to get there.
What’s next?
Now that it’s an official document, the MCCDC and others can leverage the plan with decision makers and funders to help get money and resources to make Market Center safer, cleaner, greener, and more livable for everyone.
There are six areas of improvement outlined in the plan and we are coming together to help make change.
Whether it’s getting sidewalks fixed on Howard Street or bringing in new locally owned small businesses, the goals we set together are now the roadmap for making change in Market Center.
