Downtown Baltimore sees increase in jobs and residents, but vacancies persist, report finds

The number of people working and living in downtown Baltimore grew last year, thanks to apartment conversions and office relocations, but the central business district still struggled with office vacancies as work-at-home policies expanded, a report released Wednesday showed. The first of thousands of state workers have begun moving from the aging State Center complex in midtown to vacant spaces downtown, lifting employment to 133,950 jobs from 126,047 in 2022, according to the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore’s annual measure of the economy in a one-mile radius of Pratt and Light streets.