Hell, Baltimore *without* the rioting and looting isn’t the best place to have a business.
Via CNS News:
(CNSNews.com) – Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake took a tour of the looted Mondawmin Mall on Sunday, calling it a “great day” and thanking “all of the vendors who are here,” including a company called General Growth.
“You know, they want to stay here. They want to continue their investment. And I think this was a smart — it’s certainly a smart investment because this is a growing community.”
“I’ve been coming here since I was a child, taking my Christmas pictures with Santa, I think the Easter bunny,” the mayor explained. “You can come up, General Growth, if you want to come up. Come on,” she encouraged the reprentative of the mall’s management company. “You sure?” she asked, when the representative (whose name she did not use) declined her offer to stand with her.
“And this is just a great day for this community to have the mall reopened. Just a wonderful day,” the mayor continued.
“I was proud to support the investment that — I think it was the Baltimore Development Corporation — made into this mall to do the major renovations and to see it bounce back so quickly. It gives me a lot of optimism about what’s possible in the rebuilding. I’ll open it up. I don’t know if BDC wanted to say anything –”