Episode Transcript
Speaker 1 00:00:03 Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Moving to Maryland. I'm here with Kurt and Megan. Hey guys. Hey.
Speaker 2 00:00:08 Hey. Happy New Year. Happy
Speaker 1 00:00:10 New Year. Happy New Year. So today we're gonna talk about Baltimore City and the neighborhoods that we love, and it's such a big city full of 200 neighborhoods, right? 200 plus neighborhoods. Yeah. You gotta kind of break it down into sections and a lot of people, you know, uh, hear, hear about the harbor. So let's, let's talk about the harbor area and the harbor neighborhoods and, and what we love about that. I mean, obviously it's centrally located, right?
Speaker 3 00:00:37 Yeah. I mean, the Inner Harbor I think has a lot of staple items that everybody, it brings people to Baltimore. You have Oriole Stadium, you have the Raven Stadium, uh, m and t Bank Stadium, excuse me. Um, but you're also close to Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Hospital. Like those are kind of the, like the buzzwords that everybody knows about Baltimore.
Speaker 2 00:00:58 Yeah. I mean, you know, first of all, just everything drawn towards the water. There's the promenade, uh, accessibility. Very easy to get in and outta the city via 95 or pop 180 3 and head North. Um, it's hard not to have a good time living in the waterfront communities of Fells Point, Canton, federal Hill, et cetera. You know, it's, it, they're fantastic places. If that's a part of what you're looking for, is a little bit more of that nightlife and accessibility. Great.
Speaker 1 00:01:25 Perfect. Yeah, I think of Locus Point and Fort McKendry and that great green space. Um, it's, you know, out on a peninsula, so it's, it doesn't even feel like being in the city, but you're in the city. Then you come over into Federal Hill, you got the great nightlife, great restaurants, you got top golf, you got Yeah. The stadiums. You work your way around to the Inner Harbor. You got some condo buildings around there and everything that's got East Harbor. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, and then you work Oh yeah. To Harbor East, the best shopping district, I think. And, and Right. You know, it's got the theater just reopened. Yeah. All the restaurants, Atlas Group restaurants, uh, fells Point, all of the, you know, the whole range of restaurants and shops. Right. Historic area, waterfront Promenade.
Speaker 3 00:02:06 Yeah. And I think too, like if you don't wanna be within all that, like, cuz there's a lot going on in Fells Hill or Fells Point, federal Hill, Canton Inner Harbor, like there's a lot. So, but there's kind of bordering neighborhoods, Highland town, pig town, um, upper Federal Hill where you can kind of have a little bit more residential, but still be super close to those high traffic areas.
Speaker 1 00:02:28 Upper Felts Point, I think what you were saying, did I, did I say you said Upper Fed Federal? Sorry, but I I know what you meant <laugh>. I, I just, um Right. So, and, and then you, so you work your way over into, you know, like Little Italy and Butchers Hill and Pat Park and, and up Upper Felts Point, and you got Washington Hill right into Johns Hopkins. That's, you know, one of the things about the, you know, about the, the Southeast is Johns Hopkins and you got University of Maryland over closer to Ridgeley Delight is the neighborhood, you know, right off of MLK and, uh, a
Speaker 3 00:02:57 Nice, that's such a cute neighborhood.
Speaker 1 00:02:57 Yeah. That was, um, you know, an affordable alternative to Federal Hill back when that got very expensive. Yeah. And then it pushed over into, you know, big town, very circle Pig town. Washington Village Village. Right. Um, you have the train station Yeah. Where you can actually get to DC mm-hmm. <affirmative> and some other areas. Now it's not the main train station. Right.
Speaker 3 00:03:15 Camden Yards.
Speaker 1 00:03:16 Yeah. You have the Camden Yards there. That, that, that is, uh, very accessible. Um, let's talk about central part of the city. Like what's Right. What do you think of some of the neighborhoods that, that you like and, and why?
Speaker 3 00:03:29 I think the main reason that people go towards the central, uh, section in the city is because of Penn Station. I mean, you have, that's it, that's where people are going is if they need to go to work and need to take that Amtrak, they're going to Penn Station and living near those neighborhoods.
Speaker 1 00:03:43 I mean, that's definitely a, a big thing that, that we, you know, from people that like can't afford dc but wanna live in an urban environment kind of thing. Yeah. What, what do you say there, Kurt?
Speaker 2 00:03:52 Nah. Uh, so, you know, if you're from out of town and you're thinking about accessibility to get in and out of the city for various job opportunities mm-hmm. <affirmative>, uh, a lot of people come to Baltimore because of job opportunities in DC and living in that midtown Mount Vernon area. It, you can bike to Penn Station and be in DC and 30 minutes, 40 minutes, I believe it is
Speaker 1 00:04:15 Mountain Vernon, which extends out of downtown beautiful big houses, condos, apartments. Um, you, you have, uh, Charles Village. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, you have, uh, reservoir Hill. I like Reservoir Hill. It's, um, it's, uh, an affordable neighborhood that has areas that have been developed, but also, um, parts of it that haven't been developed and are still very affordable. Right. Yeah. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
Speaker 3 00:04:40 No, it's a great
Speaker 1 00:04:41 Spot. What are some other neighborhoods in the center part of the city that,
Speaker 3 00:04:45 Well, for me it's Station North. Um, that's such a artsy district, but very eclectic. You have a really good mixture of housing and rentals there too.
Speaker 2 00:04:55 Yeah. Um, I'm just gonna go back to, forgive me, my, I live in Mount Vernon for a long time, so I really love Mount Vernon, uh, historic quote unquote brownstone style homes. Yeah. Uh, accessibility to Penn Station easily to get on the 83, uh, Charles Street corridor. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> and you're hops skipping to jump away from Hopkins University and Hopkins Shuttle gets lost in the shuffle unless you're a Hopkins employee, but you can live in Mount Vernon and they have a stop to the Bayview Camp campus. Yeah. And, uh, and the hospital here, uh, as well. So it's just really centrally located. It's affordable. There's a lot of housing options and I'm a history nut, so I love the fact that it's just really, really old and, you know, that Washington Monument and so forth.
Speaker 3 00:05:40 Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 00:05:42 The, um, you know, when I, when I think of, uh, the center of the city, you start to think of like Remington and Hamden and Woodbury, uh, Medfield, very affordable. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> alternative to Hamden, Hamden. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, uh, just like Remington is. Right, right. Um, which are all, all kind of north of the arts district.
Speaker 3 00:05:59 I mean, there's still like, especially Hampton, still very artsy, like, just has that really cool vibe.
Speaker 2 00:06:04 Hampton is just west of Hopkins University, so it's right in that whole central hub there as well.
Speaker 3 00:06:09 It is. It's awesome.
Speaker 1 00:06:11 Let's, um, real quick talk about the West side and the Southwest a bit before we move on to some of the other areas. Um, I, I love Union Square. I love Holland's market. Uh, the, you know, the market's just been redone. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, uh, Barry Circles a a acute neighborhood. Um, there's a lot going on in the west and Southwest. A lot of people. Yeah. You know, forget to, you know, talk about those
Speaker 3 00:06:31 Neighborhoods. The one I think of is Upton. Um, I actually took a tour with John Hopkins. He, um, works for the city and he's very knowledgeable, but it's, Upton is very up and coming. It has the marble, you know, uh, steps leading up to the homes. Um, but it's very rich in African American history, and it was really awesome to kind of actually see where, uh, the Marshall lived. And it was just a really awesome time to understand, actually kind of like some of the roots of Baltimore city.
Speaker 1 00:06:57 That's, that's awesome. What about you, Kurt?
Speaker 2 00:07:01 Uh, you know, you said Holland's market, union Square. I love that. Um, if you get on the Route 40 corridor, which takes you out, you can be in Catonsville in the Baltimore County about 20 minutes, but there's 10 hills on the west side. Um, you know, it's just, you know, Edmondson Village, that
Speaker 1 00:07:18 Whole area. Oh, nice.
Speaker 2 00:07:20 Lot of neat stuff going on there as well.
Speaker 1 00:07:22 Awesome. So let's move a little bit more North Northeast. Um, what are some of your favorite neighborhoods in that, those areas?
Speaker 2 00:07:30 I actually really love the Hartford Road, bell Road Corridor, which heads North and East and in there is Hamilton and Laville. Uh, lot of fun things happening there. Affordable. Uh, if someone says, I want to have a single family house, you have a lot more options at a reasonable price point to get a single family house. Yeah, very true. But yet still having conveniences of city life, you know, you can still have a front yard and a backyard and all those other things, but again, you're accessible Bellaire Road, Harford Road corridor, nine to five, quarter four corridor, depending on what your job takes
Speaker 3 00:08:01 You to 'em. Yeah. Yeah. I always love Eder Gardens. To me, that is just, it, it's very historic. You have your beautiful just stone front kind of like patios on all the sides. Um, and it's just a really awesome, like, they have a Eder Gardens community page that everybody just gets together. Like they got together for the New Year's Eve Ball drop. They did their own. It was just, to me, it's just such a small pocket of awesome community within that kind of northeast area.
Speaker 1 00:08:26 Lauraville is so awesome. We had some friends that lived there for 15 years and they had, uh, an, uh, single family house with a fenced in backyard. Nice, nice yard. Um, such a big house where you have walk-in pantries, which, you know, <laugh>, you don't see that in
Speaker 3 00:08:43 Like a, it's a privilege to have. Right. I
Speaker 1 00:08:46 Mean, a a walk-in pantry would be amazing. I know. You know, and, um, you just can't fit that in on a 12 or 15 foot wide. I mean, you can it some houses if it's, if it's deep enough, right? Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. So, um, what about, uh, just above central part of the, the, the city. You got more of the northern part of the city. What, uh, what are some of your favorite neighborhoods?
Speaker 2 00:09:08 Well, I, I, I'm still kind of, my brain's still stuck on Hamilton Laville, but as we go a little west of that is, you know, uh, Morgan State, which is kind of northwest, I northeast for Gibby. Uh, and there's, you know, a lot of great things happening with Morgan State, which is great for that part of the town, uh, so far as, you know, community.
Speaker 1 00:09:27 Yeah. Yeah. And you have, um, you know, you can't forget the whole, you know, Roland Park and Gilford, Homeland. Homeland, all nice neighborhoods that are kind of stack, you know, you got, um, Charles Village Gilford mm-hmm. <affirmative>, Roland Park, Homeland, that, uh, you know, wealthier parts of town. Nice. Uh, you know, I like Roland Park with the, uh, you know, some of the neighborhoods or, you know, just have so much, uh, green, you know, like lined with trees or long streams. Um, you know, definitely some
Speaker 3 00:09:57 Cool places. Yeah. I mean, for me, like those areas just scream beautiful architecture and just the history. Very historic homes. But just it, you, if you ever come to Baltimore, you have to kind of take a drive up there because it is just like stunning to walk, to just drive through.
Speaker 1 00:10:15 Um, being close to a hospital is, is clo you know, important for, you know, maybe, um, people as they get a little bit older or um, ha have, have issues. Yeah. Uh, you know, what, what are some nice neighborhoods you think of when, uh, being close to a, to a hospital?
Speaker 3 00:10:32 I mean, obviously the inner Harbor. I mean, you're right next to Johns Hopkins Hospital, university of Maryland. Um, but then also in Canton you have, you know, some small urgent cares and things like that.
Speaker 2 00:10:44 I'm tapped out on hospitals. I see <laugh> <laugh>. Next thing you know, I'm in Towson going know University of Maryland and St. Joe's, but that's
Speaker 3 00:10:53 <laugh> Well, got mercy too.
Speaker 2 00:10:54 Maybe, maybe this is good because I'm still young and healthy enough that I'm not really worried about There you, how close I am to hospitals, but a good talking point, nevertheless,
Speaker 1 00:11:02 <laugh> What about nightlife? What, what are your favorite nightlife spots?
Speaker 3 00:11:06 Uh, for me, I, I grew up, well, I moved here into Fells Point, but I love Fells Point. You have the cobblestone roads, you have Admiral's Cup Horse, you came in on, uh, the p which is gorgeous. Uh, just a lot of activities and, and a lot of live music here in Phils point.
Speaker 2 00:11:23 For me, it's, I, I live in Hamden now, so I, I love Hamden, uh, and Fells Point is my, one of my other favorite neighborhoods as well. And just, I gotta tip my hat a bit back to Mount Vernon. So Mount Vernon spent a lot of time there, and it doesn't necessarily get all the publicity of the other neighborhoods, which are deserved, but, uh, Mount Fernan is just a fun park your car, walk around, jump in and add on some fun, just bars and restaurants. So it's, yeah, it's not nearly as celebrated for its nightlife, but it's special to me.
Speaker 1 00:11:54 Yeah. You know, living in Canton, um, we have Phelps Point that's close by. We have, you know, obviously Canton, uh, Harbor East is, is pretty popular. But I love going into Hamden. Uh, I love going into Charles Village. I love going into, uh, Mount Vernon. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, um, you know, historically growing up in the city, those, um, you know, those field trips, uh, always, uh, really anticipated, um, checking out new spots and, uh, different parts of the city. Yeah. So, uh, if you, um, you, you know, affordability is, is, is different for everybody, right? Sure. And, um, I, you know, I think of some neighborhoods that, um, have parts of the neighborhood that are still affordable, but there's a lot of development happening, and you can kind of see this roadmap of, of where they're heading. Uh, one of those is Reservoir Hill, um, you could say Remington, um, is like that Holland Market. Um, any neighborhoods that you think of that, um, you know, you could say there's still opportunity to, to buy in that neighborhood where, where, where it hasn't been developed yet, but you can see, um, just based on the inertia of other parts of that same community or neighborhood where they're heading. Um, any neighborhoods that come to mind.
Speaker 2 00:13:08 Patterson Park. Yep. Uh, it's, it's
Speaker 1 00:13:11 North of
Speaker 2 00:13:11 Yep. Yep. Patterson Park. Uh, again, like you said, reservoir Hill, um, Woodbury, uh, just west of, definitely Hamden. There's a lot of opportunities there, which is close to Reservoir Hill or in the same vicinity.
Speaker 1 00:13:24 Um, east Hardwood.
Speaker 3 00:13:26 Yes, very much so.
Speaker 1 00:13:27 Yep. Uh, and, and then Oliver is a good one. Yeah. You know, the, the areas that actually have the live near your work grants, the, uh, Hopkins Yes. Live near your work grant. And then over on the univer on the west side, the University of Maryland mm-hmm. <affirmative> the Southwest. Has that live near your work grant? Yes. Tho those, um, areas that, that those employers give money to have, have really started to come along. And you see
Speaker 3 00:13:50 Lots within those neighborhoods near Johns Hopkins, uh, hospital, excuse me. They have a lot of new construction that's coming up, which not only can, you know, live near your work grants go towards, but they also have chap on them too, which is awesome. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. So,
Speaker 1 00:14:03 Uh, Highland Town, the northern part of Highland Town. As that moves into some of those neighborhoods are starting to develop and you're seeing rehabbers, um, coming in, you know, into the areas and Right. It's an interesting big city full of neighborhoods that, um, you know, uh, I, I, I personally enjoy, you know, being involved in communities that are going through, uh, revival or, or transition. So, you know, we've done a bunch of work in Oliver always, uh, feels good to be part of involved in those neighborhoods. We've done a lot of work in, in Holland's market, Jake and our, and our sales team lives there. And, and, um, um, any other areas or neighborhoods that, that, um, we didn't talk about that you think should be mentioned when people are thinking about moving to Baltimore for, for any reason in particular?
Speaker 3 00:14:55 I mean, I always think of Pig town. Um, pig town is very close to Federal Hill, but it's actually being kind of revitalized a little bit. You have a brand new top golf that just opened up, and you're also getting the new hammer jacks, and then there's a brand new concert hall, uh, that's gonna be opening, I wanna say this summer or next summer, which is just, it, it is just gonna really kind of revamp that area.
Speaker 1 00:15:17 The casinos or the casino. Yeah. Is there
Speaker 3 00:15:20 Horseshoe? Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:15:21 Yeah. Well, uh, you know, Washington Village, pig town, their property values went up dramatically and there was a big push, uh, in like 2000 6, 7 8 estate market collapse. And, uh, and then, um, that inertia was lost. That momentum mm-hmm. <affirmative>, uh, now it's back. Yeah. In a, in a big way. And absolutely, um, what do you call it, Kurt Pig town or Washington Village
Speaker 2 00:15:44 <laugh>. Oh, I have to go pig town. <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:15:46 Yeah. Yeah. I, I always call it Washington Village. Um, you know, Ridley's Delight, I, I think we might have mentioned that very briefly. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Yeah. Very briefly. Really cool neighborhood. Um, and another thing I like to see in neighborhoods is when the ratio of homeowners, uh, owner occupants moves up, where, um, you can start to see that in, in, you know, areas where there's a, uh, you know, a neighborhood that's been being developed for, for 10, 15 years. And then you see, you know, uh, the bo those border neighborhoods that were mostly rental properties, they're starting to be, you know, bought by homeowners or rehabbers. Um, you know, I, I think there's a lot of amazing neighborhoods we didn't talk about. There's Sure. A of neighborhoods in the northwest, the west, um, that, that are, uh, near green space, uh, easy access in the Baltimore County. Uh, before we wrap this podcast, up, this episode, any other, uh, tips or ideas or thoughts about somebody moving here?
Speaker 3 00:16:52 I always recommend if somebody's moving to Baltimore from like, out of state, uh, which I did, um, we actually just, just take a day or a couple, like a weekend and really go through the neighborhoods. Not just the inner harbor, but like, take a drive up into the east section north. You know, you just, you have to understand cuz you hear the hustle and bustle, the inner harbor and you know, everything that's, that's there. But there's also amazing other opportunities in neighborhoods all throughout Baltimore.
Speaker 2 00:17:22 Yeah. As a real estate agent, part of, of what you're doing is you are, uh, you know, a tour guide, <laugh>. Yeah. And you're not just showing real estate, but you're showing neighborhoods and there is value. And I like to tease people. I say, go get lost.
Speaker 3 00:17:35 You know, seriously <laugh>, just
Speaker 2 00:17:37 Get, you know, go old school, get a map, circle a few things and say, I wanna go to these neighborhoods and, and go get lost. And that's how you learn a lot.
Speaker 1 00:17:44 Yeah. So Kurt, Megan and myself are real estate agents. Our office is here in Baltimore City. We actually have offices in Carroll County and Howard County as well. So, you know, we, we, uh, cover most of the state. If you're looking to explore neighborhoods in and around the Baltimore Metro, please reach out and we look forward to helping you take care.
