Look to the past to chart a future for Harborplace | GUEST COMMENTARY

To visualize the possibilities before you, it is often instructive to consider where you began. In that sense, the process of contemplating a re-imagined Baltimore is served by an understanding some of how the city came to be. And an essential way to begin is to look east from a location that affords an expansive view of the water as it winds its way around the corner of Federal Hill and stretches out toward the bay and beyond.