Dan Rodricks: Harborplace does not need 900 apartments to be a ‘great good place’ again

In 1978, thousands of Baltimoreans opposed a commercial development at Harborplace by James Rouse and his company. They tried but failed to stop the construction of Rouse’s “festival mall” on the public waterfront at Pratt and Light streets, and the rest is history. James Rouse was a white man. I point this out only because of Mayor Brandon Scott’s recent statement that 46 years later, opposition to the redevelopment of Rouse’s Harborplace is due to the lead developer, David Bramble, being Black.