Coppin Heights CDC

Since 1995, the CHCDC has worked directly with neighborhood organizations and residents of West Baltimore to promote affordable housing and economic development in a historically underinvested area of the city. For over a decade the CHCDC has relied largely on volunteer staff and a firm coalition of local stakeholders to deliver transformative results with two major redevelopment projects: the Walbrook Mill mixed-use apartment complex at 2636 West North Avenue, and the Center for Health Care and Healthy Living, also known as the Hebrew Orphans Asylum, at 2700 Rayner Avenue. The Coppin Heights CDC has produced substantive benefits for the local community through hard work and collaboration, winning more than $250,000 in Baltimore Neighborhood Investment (BRNI) grants from the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) for distribution to area homeowners for neighborhood improvement projects. It focus has exclusively been, and continues to be, development projects in Baltimore City. Throughout its existence, the Coppin Heights CDC has acted as a unifying force and consistent voice for communities, faith-based institutions, and small businesses during times of changing political leadership and shifting investment priorities. Coppin Heights CDC ensures that local residents have a seat at the table in its development projects and that those projects provide long-term, direct benefits. The CDC's development projects include local hiring and Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) participation goals. Our affordable housing projects are targeted to accommodate, not displace, current residents of the area. The commercial elements of our projects are intentionally designed to encourage use by locally-owned businesses that provide goods and services needed in the local community. The Coppin Heights CDC was certified as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization by the Internal Revenue Service in 1995.