The Baltimore Food Hub project is a $23.5 million historic renovation project situated on a 3.5-acre campus in Baltimore’s Broadway East community. It will create dozens of jobs, bring new life to a brownfield site in a disinvested urban area, and provide opportunities for microenterprise, workforce development, education, and economic opportunity. The campus will include teaching and commercial production kitchens, space for food manufacturing, job training, an urban farming operation and an all-season market. By clustering food-related uses in a single campus, the project links East Baltimore to Maryland’s food manufacturing economy.

The Baltimore Food Hub is being developed by American Communities Trust (ACT), a national community development partner committed to serving low-income urban communities with improved infrastructure, new amenities, and targeted services. ACT focuses its work at the intersection of people and place, advising for-profit and nonprofit partners in real estate project development that responds to local needs and creates opportunities for residents to learn, engage and achieve. Since its founding in 2008, ACT has worked in more than two dozen U.S. cities advising clients on projects that impact low income communities and total in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

ACT is partnering with the Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition to build the teaching and commercial production kitchens. ACT is also partnering with Humanim, which will operate the catering social enterprise that will provide jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities to low-income residents.

The project is made possible with the strong financial support of the State of Maryland, City of Baltimore, U.S. Economic Development Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as well as nonprofit and private partners including Humanim, Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition, J.S. Plank & D.M. DiCarlo Family Foundation, Abell Foundation, France-Merrick Foundation, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Johns Hopkins University, Goldseker Foundation, and The Reinvestment Fund.