Dan Bythewood Jr. was an ambitious 29-year-old. The son of a wealthy Long Island orthodontist, Bythewood had no background in large-scale development when he and his newly formed real-estate development company sent a proposal to Baltimore in 2003. Give us a big chunk of land in West Baltimore, he wrote, and we will transform it into a glitzy, upscale neighborhood evoking Manhattan. (Photo: Giacomo Bologna/The Baltimore Banner)
Why Baltimore chose an untested developer for its huge — now failed — Poppleton project
July 31, 2024
