During the 1990’s Baltimore leadership realized the importance of diversifying the economy in order to stabilize and grow. Thus government leadership developed a top-down strategy beginning with the city’s Downtown, Inner Harbor, and East Baltimore (John Hopkins University and Hospital) neighborhoods. Leadership was able to capitalize on assets in these neighborhoods to bring resurgence to the city’s economy. Through the rumble of what once was, came the rise of industries in health care, higher education, bioscience, information technology, government and defense contracting, cyber security, as well as professional and financial services. Over two decades later, Baltimore’s surge in development and private investment still primarily remain
