Main Street is the heart of Highlandtown. Highlandtown’s Main Street, which runs along Eastern Avenue from Ellwood Avenue to Haven Street, is a thriving 10 block stretch of shops, restaurants, grocers, and art spaces with merchants and clientele from all over the globe. The Highlandtown Main Street program follows the model from Main Street America. … Continue reading Highlandtown Main Street →

ABOUT THE DISTRICT The Highlandtown Arts & Entertainment District (ha!) is the city’s most eclectic arts district, filled with public art, painted screens, piñata makers, and parades. In Highlandtown, furniture makers and jewelry makers work alongside coffee roasters and culinary artists. Restaurants and art galleries welcome patrons during our First Friday Art Walks, where you’ll … Continue reading Highlandtown Arts & Entertainment District →

The Highlandtown Train Garden is one of the most beloved holiday traditions in the area. Entirely built and managed by local volunteers, the Train Garden features Southeast Baltimore landmarks in miniature with new scenes added each season. The Train Garden is open from late November through January 1 and located at 520 S. Conkling St … Continue reading Highlandtown Train Garden →

Location: businesses throughout Highlandtown Main Street district in 2019, with funds from the Baltimore Regional Neighborhood Initiative and the Baltimore Development Corporation’s Façade Improvement Program, the Southeast CDC managed the Highlandtown Merchant Renovation Fund to assist new and expanding businesses in the Highlandtown Main Street district with the cost of commercial build-outs. 2019 locations: Peak … Continue reading Merchant Renovation Fund →

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Location: 3134 Eastern Avenue, adjacent to the Creative Alliance In 2013, The Southeast CDC hosted community Placemaking workshops at three community gathering hubs along the Highlandtown Main Street district. We asked community members what we could do to make our commercial district more vibrant, welcoming and accessible for them. Most of the resulting projects, including … Continue reading BUS →

This site at Conkling Street and Eastern Avenue includes sculptural seating designed by local artists Crump & Kwash, lighting, streetscape improvements, custom hot pink trash cans and more to improve public space at Conkling Plaza in the Highlandtown Main Street retail district.

Southeast CDC’s raised Community Legacy funds (a program of the State Department of Housing and Community Development) to improve the public spaces in the Highlandtown Main Street retail district.