The gasworks lit the city from this ground. It's been a working neighborhood since the 1820s and it still is — 400 acres of brewery, steel, logistics, manufacturing, and the people keeping it open for business.
Start with a beer along the *South Baltimore Brewery District* on Ostend Street, then make a day of it — walk the murals, swing by Second Chance for salvage, see what the makers are building. Saturday afternoons are the time: gates open, doors unlocked.
See the map$50 a year gets you a vote, a voice with the city, and a seat at the table when something's getting built — or torn down — on your block. Three meetings a year. No nonsense.
Join the CCBADirect line for questions about the district, the org, or membership. Press, council, prospective tenants — start here. We answer like humans.
Chat with usIf your business is inside the renewal boundary — or you do work for one that is — join. If you're a neighbor, a developer, a council staffer, or a reporter, email us. If you've never been here, come for First Saturday on Ridgely, walk the murals, and find a brewery to start in. We'll be around.
A nonprofit business association. Founded in 1960 as part of the original Carroll-Camden Urban Renewal Plan. Twenty-three current members across brewery, manufacturing, logistics, services, real estate, and food. Three meetings a year. Fifty dollars a year in dues. Officers serve two-year terms and are unpaid. The full bylaws are on the Resources page if that's the kind of thing you read.
It's where Baltimore literally got built. The Baltimore Gas Light Company manufactured the city's first gas here in the 1820s, lighting street lamps from Federal Hill to Mount Vernon.
It's the 400-acre industrial corridor south of M&T Bank Stadium and Camden Yards, bounded roughly by Monroe Street to the west, the rail yards to the south, Russell Street to the east, and the stadiums to the north. It's named for the two streets that quartered it — Carroll, after Charles Carroll of Carrollton, and Camden, after the rail station — but everyone calls it Carroll-Camden, hyphenated, like a single thing.
"We're proud to call Carroll-Camden our forever brewery home. Brewing's been part of this neighborhood since the 1800s, and it means a lot to carry on that tradition while making a welcoming place for today's Baltimore to gather."
"This is still a neighborhood that makes things, and now some of what it makes is beer. We're glad to be part of that."
"We lend out 4,000 tools a year to nonprofits. We can do that because rent here is still rent here."
"Forty years on Bush Street. The CCBA is the room where the city actually listens."
"Two buildings, both pre-war, both still standing because somebody fights for this neighborhood."
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The actual documents and contacts. No "learn more" links that go nowhere — every file here is the file.
Carroll-Camden falls inside Council District 10. For zoning hearings, traffic studies, and constituent services that need a council voice.
The full URP, originally approved 1960, last amended 2020 (Ordinance 20-0490). Boundary description, permitted land uses, design standards, definitions.
