P. David Bramble doesn’t want to mess this up. The developer and West Baltimore native controls the city’s most intriguing piece of real estate: Harborplace. The Inner Harbor’s dilapidated pavilions with green roofs are the result of a controversial bargain struck nearly five decades ago. Under a plan approved by voters, the city ceded public land to a private developer. In return, Baltimore got a dazzling festival marketplace on a waterfront promenade a block away from the central business district.
