I mean obviously you don’t know about the famous Bagby Brown Bag Company in The Bagtown section of Baltimore! LEGENDARY. Known for being the PLAINEST brown paper bags in the business — no small feat!!

Named after Ogden Bagby, just in case there was any confusion (total coincidence he worked in the bag industry — came from a long line of astrolabe tuners).

It was so well known they almost renamed the city “Bagtimore”, with a city anthem “In the bag in Bagtimore!”.

Next you’ll be telling me you don’t know about Archibald Pescocero, the squid mayor (1887-1888; sadly assassinated, fried, and eaten) or the horrifying wiener schnitzel hurricane of aught six??!!

Kids these days, am I right??!! 🙄

It’s a mobile phone sized clickable ad to a larger website, not a map or phone book.

Yes, the bags are funny.

But…..that’s all the webpage does…..promote local breweries. You have to scroll by 10 locals before you even see Guinness.

Often the biggest issue with churning out this kind of content is quickly getting available acceptable to use images (either licensed, approved, or public domain). Guinness was going to be the quickest and easiest option. That’s just how things shake out sometimes.

It presents well as a small image on a small screen. That was likely the primary reason it was chosen, inasmuch as money/funding also maybe (likely) played a role. But otherwise, yeah — no plans to stay there.

I suppose. I guess I just disagree that this particular, relatively inconsequential piece of likely necessarily quickly assembled copy (note that the bags appear in other places on the website as well) has much import or relevance. Or that it was insufficient for the task, or that the CEO’s salary has much bearing. I mean whatever - people are welcome to gripe. Much of the rest of their graphic work is perfectly acceptable.

Honestly, this is fine. It’s not particularly great work, but they pump out hundreds of pieces of content a year just on social media alone (so thousands every few years). I’m not going to make a blanket judgment on one single deliverable…which isn’t really meant to stand on its own anyway, but serve as a feeder to the website.

I also very much doubt the CEO is signing off on every single piece of content — don’t really see the relevance.

OK. You’ve obviously left the world of the reasonable at this point. No thanks.

I really don’t think they are. Feel free to see my comments below after viewing the property from behind.

I went ahead and visually inspected the buildings, comments below. In short, these buildings are in a frightful state, and have likely been like that for many many years.

Feel free to see my comment on the state of the building below after visually inspecting it from behind.

Feel free to see my comment below after visually inspecting the rear of this particular structure.

I walked by these buildings today, and know the block well. I also slipped behind the alley to check how deep the lot is and check the buildings’ condition.

In short, it’s a disaster. These units are all extremely narrow, and the lot is very shallow — so shallow that one can’t really extend the structure to the rear, in part because there’s little option to include needed fire egress and windows, both due to the inherent shallowness of the lot and another structure directly abutting the lot behind it (keep in mind, code requires all bedrooms to have a window).

Literally the only thought I had when looking at the back was “holy shit”. There’s no amount of money you could pay me to convince me to walk into those buildings. Substantial parts of the rear exterior brick walls have actually collapsed up through multiple floors, with open views to the deteriorating interior — a majority of the floor joists have likely been rotted out for many, many years, and general damage looks to be multiple decades old — perhaps even predating the donation to the church. Was there a fire here many years ago?

I would also be shocked if the roof were salvageable at all, from what I can see. Large sections obviously collapsed long long ago.

Anyone renovating this structure is facing a complete demolition and rebuild of everything except the facade, and in the end, I don’t think you can squeeze more than 5 extremely narrow and relatively shallow row homes out of this, or perhaps 6-10 smaller apartments. I also suspect you would need to dedicate the current middle house to a central lobby and stairwell, further reducing your options. You could conceivably build more by extending upwards, but then you require an elevator ($$$) and have to engage in some post modern architectural features up top. The lot is situated such that retaining the facade AND trying to get large machinery and equipment in there would be extremely difficult, if not impossible.

This project would cost SEVERAL hundred thousand dollars, not unlikely pushing over the $1M mark, for a small handful of relatively awkward 1BR or studio units. At the same time, the Church’s already functioning center on that block is identical in style and represents at least half of the current total linear street footage of total structures in question (especially once taking into account the Preston Street side).

I’m all for expansion of residence options in this neighborhood and preservation of historical structures, but this lemon really just doesn’t seem to be worth the squeeze to me, and demolition still retains a substantial portion of the historical architectural heritage.

I also don’t subscribe to the notion that “gaps” on a block are inherently problematic — that’s an unnecessary and unfounded broad strokes aesthetic assertion, or at least one that’s highly dependent on individual context at best.

I don’t really understand this post, but I’ll just randomly suggest the relatively secluded section of Falls Road that runs from Baltimore Bicycle Works in Station North up through the switchback bike path entering the south end of Hampden. Especially the half-circle water fall overlook at the base of the switchback (seems fitting).

Yes, it’s excellent. It’s also quite authentic, which admittedly doesn’t always work for people looking for “American Chinese”.

I’m not aware of specific Coney Island places, but there are a number of decent hot dog places here. In that vein, here’s Nancy Pelosi’s favorite hotdog places in DC

TIL, Michigan Coney Island restaurants are a thing.

nice.

They last for years, which encourages me to buy them in 20 packs, which is a great deal. It ends up being less than $7 per trip to DC.

These options are limited at the state level. Landlords are only allowed to ask for up to 2 month’s rent equivalent as security deposit. In general, this limitation is a good thing.

gotcha. Thx

Correct, especially the long routes in less populated areas.

I’m not quibbling with your larger points, but just to be clear, the Amtrak northeast corridor is generally net positive in terms of profitability.

To be clear, I’m not saying that I am owed power, merely that this is a very small concession/amenity that makes logical sense to provide, they were already providing it, and it was appreciated and used by customers of the rail lines. It’s pretty common to find power outlets available in say, coffee shops, and customers are spending substantially more on the train than they are for a latte.

And to be clear, this is only a public space in the sense that it is freely accessible. It nonetheless has an express business purpose, and general usage outside of the purposes of transportation is discouraged (in as much as that may be ignored). It’s not like it’s a public park or a random corner bus stop.

Thanks. Are you saying that electrical code shortcomings were the reason for removal, or that they had to undergo full removal rather than just covering them up in order to satisfy code?

Also, I don’t understand why you’re getting down voted. You were just relaying information.

Yeah I already mentioned that. At the same time power is cheap, and not everyone’s walking around with a power bank all the time. Also, laptops. The station has intentionally ripped all basic amenities out, and it’s getting really spartan in there. I use the station all the time, but increasingly I really dislike being there. Being stuck there with a train delay now really sucks, especially now that the little bar/restaurant is closed as well.