Mondawmin Target’s facade to be razed as community center build moves forward

The facade of the shuttered Target at Mondawmin Mall is scheduled to be razed on Thursday as a $25 million plan to turn the vacant store into a community center for the surrounding West Baltimore neighborhoods hits the midway point. “We are plowing forward,” Tim Regan, CEO of Whiting-Turner Construction Co., said this week. “This is an effort to lift this community up.” Regan and Calvin G. Butler Jr., incoming CEO of Exelon Corp., have spent the past several years putting together the idea and later a blueprint for the new center with the help of community leaders. Regan announced in March that he had personally bought the Target store property for $1 million to make the community center happen.