KMK Development is currently soliciting an investment opportunity that can generate returns of up to 19% on equity. The project entails a mixed-use real estate development for residential rental units and ground floor retail located in Frederick, Maryland. To accomplish this project KMK Development has established a relationship with The City of Frederick to expedite […]
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Is there any spatial pattern of destruction of properties and break-ins in Howard County? Are those crime incidents are clustered in Howard County? […]
The ten undergraduate students in this government and policy class were asked to examine homelessness in Howard County as part of the PALS program. Each of them researched the extent of the problem, the services in place to address it, how homelessness is addressed in comparable U.S. counties, and proposals that Howard County could adapt. […]
The housing group focused on a variety of factors or variables to assess housing issues in the Southwest Partnership neighborhoods. Our goal was to identify areas of lowest and highest housing opportunity in the Partnership area by analyzing variables related to the characteristics and quality of housing. These variables included housing conditions, year built, housing […]
The Southwest Partnership has made significant progress in exploring the existing status of commercial development in their seven neighborhoods. This project will support this work using geospatial analysis and visualization to further the Southwest Partnership’s economic development goals. Data provided by the Southwest Partnership on existing businesses was geocoded and represented on a map of […]
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For this project the Healthy and Safe Neighborhoods group worked with Baltimore’s Southwest Partnership (SWP) to create mapping resources for their seven partnering neighborhoods. The primary focus was to investigate the health and safety of Southwest Baltimore’s current neighborhood using the most recent ACS (American Community Survey) and Census Data as well as open source […]
Job accessibility is a question of how many jobs are available in a given area, and whether or not area residents are physically able to get to them via car, transit, or other modes of transportation. In addition, it is a question of whether these jobs are a “good fit†for the residents who have […]
The Southwest Partnership (SWP) is a group of 13 partners striving to make “deliberate, positive changes†in the SWP area, which includes the neighborhoods of Barre Circle, Pigtown, Franklin Square, Hollins Market, Mount Clare, Poppleton, and Union Square. Workforce development is an important aspect of any urban area, and in order to meet SWP’s vision […]
The Southwest Partnership neighborhoods located adjacent to downtown Baltimore, are Barre Circle, Franklin Square, Hollins Roundhouse, Mount Clare, Pigtown, Poppleton, and Union Square. Neighborhoods in Southwest Baltimore have a proud legacy of industrial enterprise. In the middle of the 20th century, dozens of factories, warehouses, and shops near Carroll Park employed thousands of West Baltimore […]
Are there any spatial patterns of assaults in Howard County? Are there any clusters, hotspots or outliers? […]
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