On Tuesday, July 19, ReBUILD Metro, the Johnston Square Partners, and Johnston Square community members were joined by Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott, Councilman Robert Stokes, and Maryland Deputy Secretary of Housing Owen McEvoy to celebrate the next phase of rebuilding abandoned properties and revitalizing blocks in Johnston Square. Over the next two
DONATE TO THE TREVOR WHITE MEMORIAL FUND On the morning of Sunday, June 19, Trevor White, our friend and colleague, was senselessly murdered outside of his home in Northeast Baltimore. Trevor was an innovative and talented leader at ReBUILD who had an immeasurable impact on our ability to transform neighborhoods and to provide
It is with the heaviest heart that ReBUILD Metro acknowledges the senseless and tragic murder of Trevor White, our friend, leader, and colleague. During his five years at ReBUILD, Trevor was instrumental in ReBUILD's growth and day-to-day management. He created and ran ReBUILD’s property management arm, establishing it as Baltimore’s largest nonprofit manager
ReBUILD Metro has completed the renovation of the first four properties of our 1700 East Biddle Project in East Baltimore's Broadway East/Eager Park community. These fully restored three-bedroom rowhomes will offer four new homeownership opportunities just three blocks from Johns Hopkins Hospital. Beyond the high-quality housing and convenient location they will offer to
We are proud that Johnston Square has been selected as one of two pilot sites across the state for the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development's Homeownership Works (HOW) pilot program. This program will help make it possible for us to convert dozens of abandoned historic homes in Johnston Square into new
On Thursday, October 21, we celebrated nature and community—past, present, and future—at the new Robert and Alice Stokes Triangle Park at East Preston and North Gay Streets in Broadway East. The park honors the parents of Councilman Robert Stokes and other legacy families of the 1700 block of East Preston Street while providing
Bishop Douglas Miles was a founding member of ReBUILD Metro and served on our Board for over 12 years. As a longstanding BUILD Leader and a constant voice for the voiceless in Baltimore, Bishop Miles infused ReBUILD with a sense of purpose and a commitment to work towards a better and more equitable
In March 2020, as the gravity of the COVID crisis set in, we spoke with our partners at BUILD and decided we could not just continue with our business as usual. Though neither of us had roots in direct service, we saw that together, we had the capacity to meet one of the
On Thursday, July 8, ReBUILD Metro joined the Johnston Square community, our partners at Ingerman, and a group of City and State leaders in celebrating the grand opening of Greenmount & Chase, a new 60-unit affordable apartment building that marks the first major investment in our $160 million community-driven initiative to Transform Johnston Square. Read
In 2020, Baltimore Community Foundation’s Invest for More program made an impact investment in ReBUILD Metro to support our efforts to revitalize homes and businesses in Johnston Square, among the millions of dollars it invests in companies and organizations that generate a social impact in the Baltimore region. Now, BCF is also offering its