Minority- and women-owned businesses make up nearly half of Baltimore Peninsula contracts

Developers of the 235-acre Baltimore Peninsula mixed-use community in South Baltimore said Thursday that they have awarded nearly half of the construction work in the project’s first phase to city-based women- and minority-owned businesses. More than $134 million in contracts have been awarded to firms with those designations, developers said in a new report measuring the project’s economic, environmental and social impact.