Jun 4, 2009 10
Oh say, can you extend the Inner Harbor promenade to Fort McHenry?
rA BLUE-SKY BLUEPRINT FOR BALTIMORE
By GERALD NEILY
Fort McHenry is on a peninsula, but it might as well be an island. Baltimore’s most important and enduring tourist attraction, the birthplace of our national anthem, is also its most isolated. When befuddled tourists discover they can’t get there by following the Inner Harbor waterfront promenade, many just give up.
But extending the promenade to Fort McHenry should be much easier than anyone has imagined. Unlike some of the more out-there proposals for spiffing up the city (gondolas over the Inner Harbor, knocking down the Jones Falls Expressway, turning a century-old derelict railroad bridge into the centerpiece of walking trail to a developer’s upscale develoment) this promenade idea would face few political or physical impediments, isn’t horribly expensive and could actually happen quickly.
It should be planned now, in fact, to complement the new $14 million visitors center which recently began construction.
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