Waterfront Coalition Records

The Waterfront Coalition was a grassroots umbrella organization for a number of community groups that formed in approximately 1987. Over the years the Waterfront Coalition represented the interests of more than nine homeowner and business groups, community organizations, and neighborhoods including: the Butchers Hill Association; Canton Highlandtown Community Association (CHICA); Citizens for Washington Hill; Fells Point Businesses Association; Fells Point Homeowners Association; the Owners, Renters, and Residents Association of Fells Point; Upper Fells Point Community Association; Little Italy Association; the Canton Square Association; the Canton Community Association; West Canton; Anchorage Homeowners Association; Canton Cove Condominiums; Fells Prospect; and the Preservation Society for Federal Hill and Fells Point. These community groups were concerned about proposed zoning changes of property along the waterfront from Canton to Little Italy and the possible effect of the growing development of the waterfront in the Baltimore City neighborhoods of Fells Point, Canton, Butchers Hill, and others.

Carolyn Boitnott, a Baltimore City resident, became involved with other community leaders in the formation of the Waterfront Coalition while she was the Butchers Hill Association President. She became the coordinator for the Waterfront Coalition from its creation in approximately 1987 until the group ceased to exist in approximately 2015. She led the citizens group in many of its activities over the years.

Political discussions the Coalition became involved with included the redevelopment of the American Can Company complex in Canton and the construction of the Wyndham Hotel in Inner Harbor East.