It Could Happen Here - The East Baltimore Example

After displacing 600 people, razing a neighborhood, and sitting in limbo for ten years, "The New East Baltimore," a biotech park in Maryland, has failed.  Questions swirling around the proposed development have now led to investigative hearings.

The many parallels to the LSU/VA hospital complex - and the 1,500-acre BioDistrict New Orleans that engulfs the complex - are troubling. 

Here's some audio on the big failure.

Here's the massive investigative reporting series by The Daily Record.  Here's a good place to start.