BALTIMORE—In what the city says is a continuing step to improve the Reservoir Hill community, a troubled 202-unit housing complex known as "Murder Mall" will be razed once all the tenants at the property vacate.
City housing officials have been attempting for more than four years to oust the company that owns the crime-plagued Madison Park Apartments complex. Last week the city and the owner reached a settlement, according to the Baltimore Sun. Residents have been informed they have four months to vacate their apartments and city officials say the building will be demolished 10 months after the last tenant leaves the complex.
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake states, "We have to be unrelenting in our efforts to provide quality, affordable and safe housing options for all Baltimore City residents. My focus over the next several months will be the successful relocation of all Madison Park North residents, total clearance of the site and the development of an exciting new mixed-use community."
Tricap Management controls Madison Park North Apartments Ltd., which owns the complex. Al Barry, principal of land use planning firm AB Associates, whose clients include Tricap, says, "The owner has been cooperating for the past nine months to reach an agreement with (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development) and the city for the tenants to be relocated, and the owner is looking forward to, once that is under way, to begin a redevelopment process for the property, which is clearly what the neighborhood has been looking for," Barry says. See story in the Baltimore Sun.
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