Downtown Baltimore’s Howard Street suffered a hit when a batch of historic shops caught fire a few weeks ago. There’s now a vacant lot the size of a football field where people once had lunch, saw a movie and had their shoes repaired.

But not all the news is grim. Extensive building renovation work is soon to start at a spot less than a block away from that fire. Soon, 42 affordable apartments will emerge from the triangular grouping of buildings at the intersection of Park Avenue, Fayette Street and Liberty Street. This rescue comes not a moment too soon.

The development, which involves a conjoining of these structures, takes the name Sojourner Place at Park. It’s the work of two Baltimore nonprofits, the Episcopal Housing Corp. and Health Care for the Homeless, operating in a joint own

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