In a ceremony akin to those that used to announce the circus coming to town, every elected official from near and far showed up on April 28 at a long-vacant property located across from Bolton Hill’s northeastern boundary. All came to announce the arrival, someday on this space, of a new 12,000 square-foot full-service grocery store – Streets Market.
The past year has been a period of planning and fundraising for the lot renovation at the southeast corner of Park and North Avenues, all part of a project to rejuvenate the space between Bolton Hill and Reservoir Hill called Unity@Park Avenue.
Nearly eight years after developers David Bramble and Mark Renbaum announced their intention to build market-rate townhouses, apartments and offices off North Avenue near Bolton Hill’s northern border, construction has begun on an initial strip of residences facing Park Ave.
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) awarded two separate grants to provide detailed plans to renovate green spaces in Bolton Hill. One is Mounds Park in the 1400 block of Eutaw Place and the other is the southeast vacant lot and bus stop at the corner of Park and North avenues.
Artist Ernest Shaw last month completed the second of the two-part mural at Park and North avenues.
Landscape architecture firm EnviroCollab hosted a second community input session on Nov. 5 to solicit feedback on a pair of possible designs for the lot at the southeast corner of Park and North Avenues, one of several gateways to Bolton Hill.
The three-part revitalization project called Unity@Park Avenue will bring colorful murals to the bleached walls facing North Avenue, transform a sterile lot into a greener, more hospitable northern entrance to Bolton Hill, and reimagine the bus stop at the edge of the lot.
The three-part vision to revitalize the intersection of Park and North avenues with row house murals, a greener lot, and a reimagined bus stop took a big step toward realization on June 10 with a virtual community input session for the murals.
Despite its prominent location at the north end of the neighborhood, the corner of Park Avenue and North Avenue is a neglected piece of Bolton Hill. It’s mostly covered in sterile concrete. The facing row house wall is bleached and speckled with grime.
