
May 25, 20210
Average citizens tried to tell city leaders: Port Covington was too good to be true
Two activists who were there look back at how Baltimore was bamboozled five years ago and call on City Hall to learn from its mistakes. [OP-ED]
A billionaire entrepreneur ready to invest his fortune for the betterment of Baltimore? As the city prepared in 2020 to hand over the biggest tax subsidy in history to Under Armour’s Kevin Plank for the Port Covington development, The Brew reviewed hundreds of pages of PIA-ed financial reports to reveal the risky underpinnings of the deal. Also documented: the cash contributions strategically shoveled out to city and state politicians.