Candidates in West Baltimore City Council race promise to deliver more resources

If Paris Gray had his way, the Edmondson Village Shopping Center would be overhauled with a new grocery store, coffee shop and health care center — and maybe even something less glamorous, like a UPS store. To him, the outdated shopping complex, acquired by a Chicago-based developer last year after a more than two-year slog, presents the most transformative opportunity for his West Baltimore district.