“You know, Baltimore’s not all about Station North; it’s not all about the Inner Harbor,” says Johnson. “There’s a group of people who remained in this city, good, bad or indifferent. And those were the African Americans who live around [this] area. Some are still here because they have nowhere else to go. But many of them are here because they want to be near the flavor of that avenue, of Pennsylvania Avenue. And that’s what we’re trying to bring back.”