patrickmaynard

General Growth Properties is by virtue of its size a sort of regional urban planning group, albeit a commercial one. It's largely responsible for the direction of our region's most famous planned city, Columbia. It also owns several other malls and mixed-use projects. There are few actual municipalities in Maryland: Most of the government is county-based. A few exceptions include Annapolis, Bowie, Baltimore (city) ... I'm relatively new to the area, so I don't know many of them. The counties around Baltimore are Howard, Baltimore County, Harford and Anne Arundel. PG is a bit farther away. Within Baltimore, there may be neighborhood organizations that can pay something -- though probably not as much as you'd need. Other overlay organizations like the MTA may also be able to use you. Good luck!

I'm glad to see people looking seriously at Baltimore. It's a great city. In order to help people make the urban transition, I've made a map of all the full-service grocery stores in the city. You can find it at: http://www.BaltimoreGroceries.org This is literally just a thrown-on-the-web version of a map my wife and I have been using in our home hunt. I hope someone else perhaps finds it handy. -- Patrick