David Levy

Last year, the city's Department of Housing and Community Development allocated $50,000 for the Upton Master Plan Committee to develop a community land-use plan, says David Levy, assistant commissioner for land resources for the agency.
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Levy says the city has short-listed six developers for the slated redevelopment, which will be known as Upton West.Once the developers are selected, the next step, Levy says, will be to hold community presentations to introduce the plans to the public.

David Levy, assistant commissioner for land resources for Housing and Community Development, believes that the scale of this project sets it apart.

"We have been able to accumulate a critical mass of properties in the city portfolio so that we're able to do a multifaceted initiative," he says.

David Levy, assistant commissioner at the Baltimore City Department of Housing and Community Development, said the committee should be assembled sometime in early May.He doesn't know yet how long the entire process will take, but says the community input will continue until the last brick is placed.

The city of Rockville named David Levy of Bethesda its first chief of redevelopment in its Department of Community Planning and Development Services.Previously, Levy was a commissioner at the Department of Housing and Community Development in Baltimore.

In an interview last year, David Levy, then assistant commissioner for the Baltimore City Department of Housing and Community Development, said Clarke's ability "to act locally" and HRI's expertise nationally put that development team in a winning spot.

Significantly, the city's profile in Reservoir Hill's turnaround attempt will rise in the coming months, said David Levy, the assistant housing commissioner in charge of land resources.So far, the city has awarded for redevelopment just 55 of the vacant properties it controls in the neighborhood.

Eventually, it hopes that about 300 additional dilapidated properties will be rehabilitated by private investors, mostly for homeownership.Levy said the city also is about to seek developers for two new condominium mid-rises.They would be located on vacant lots east of the renovated Riviera Apartments, one of five lakefront towers that were favored by moneyed and powerful Baltimoreans in the early part of last century.
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"This is very much what Project 5000 is about," said Levy, referring to a program Mayor Martin O'Malley launched to redevelop or raze that number of vacant properties throughout the city.

David Levy, assistant commissioner for the Baltimore City Department of Housing and Community Development, said he wasn't certain why the housing agency oversaw the Recreation Pier project."The decision was made before I started," he said.

"The city is on the upswing in a big way," says David Levy, Baltimore's assistant commissioner for land resources.

Significantly, the city's profile in Reservoir Hill's turnaround attempt will rise in the coming months, said David Levy, the assistant housing commissioner in charge of land resources.

So far, the city has awarded for redevelopment just 55 of the vacant properties it controls in the neighborhood.Eventually, it hopes that about 300 additional dilapidated properties will be rehabilitated by private investors, mostly for homeownership.

Levy said the city also is about to seek developers for two new condominium mid-rises.They would be located on vacant lots east of the renovated Riviera Apartments, one of five lakefront towers that were favored by moneyed and powerful Baltimoreans in the early part of last century.
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"This is very much what Project 5000 is about," said Levy, referring to a program Mayor Martin O'Malley launched to redevelop or raze that number of vacant properties throughout the city.

Baltimore housing official David Levy, assistant commissioner of development, called the Pen Lucy effort a "home run" and says the city is eager to cooperate.