Paul’s Place - Groundwork Kitchen

New Markets Tax Credit Coalition

Baltimore,
MD
(2019)

Paul’s Place – Groundwork Kitchen

Adult Education, Business Development, College or Vocational Training, Community, Culinary Entrepreneurship, Daycare and Early Childhood, Healthcare, Incubator, Restaurants and Catering, Retail and Commercial, Shelters and Community Food, Youth and Families

Paul's Place Inc. is expanding its workforce development platform to create a social enterprise restaurant and culinary arts training program in Baltimore.

Investment

NMTC Amount: $10,500,000
Total Project Cost: $10,580,140

IMPACT

14 FTE jobs
14 construction jobs
3,476 patients served
Increase Access to healthy foods for 2,500 individuals annually

CDEs

Cinnaire New Markets

Investor

Chase

Project Description

Paul’s Place Inc. is expanding its workforce development platform to create a social enterprise restaurant and culinary arts training program in Baltimore. The project will run a program with a goal of securing participants employment in the Baltimore hospitality industry. Local nonprofit Paul’s Place is launching a culinary arts training program that creates jobs and provides a new dining option along Pigtown’s Main Street. Groundwork Kitchen is designed to help Baltimore’s youth and others looking for work get the training they need to find employment in the growing hospitality industry. It is all housed in a new $10 million restaurant and training center at the corner of Washington Boulevard and Cross Street, near the nonprofit’s headquarters.

MAP

Address: 925 Washington Blvd, Baltimore, MD 21230

Census Tract: 24510060200

Other Maryland Projects

Lexington Market

Baltimore,
MD
(2019)

Business Development, Community, Incubator

CDE(s): Cinnaire New Markets, Enterprise Community Partners, Harbor Bankshares Corporation, USBCDE

Salvaging and adaptively reusing the existing East Market Building, reopening Lexington Street for pedestrians, and building a new 63,000 square foot market building on the south parking lot that is

The Lion Brothers Building

Baltimore,
MD
(2016)

Community, Historic Rehabilitation, Incubator, Mixed-use, Nonprofit Hub

CDE(s): City First

New rehabilitation project anchors the Hollins Market neighborhood, an area in west Baltimore hard hit by blight and disinvestment and on the edge of the University of Maryland's Bio Park.

The 1812 Ashland Building

Baltimore,
MD
(2014)

Adult Education, Affordable Housing, Business Development, College or Vocational Training, Community, Daycare and Early Childhood, Historic Rehabilitation, Incubator, Retail, Youth and Families

CDE(s): City First, Harbor Bankshares Corporation, National Community Investment Fund

The 1812 Ashland building is in Baltimore's Eager Park neighborhood, near Johns Hopkins University's East Baltimore campus.

North Avenue Educational Hub

Baltimore,
MD
(2020)

Community, Daycare and Early Childhood, Historic Rehabilitation, Mixed-use, Nonprofit Hub, Youth and Families

CDE(s): National Trust Community Investment Corporation

Rehabilitation of a former dance club into nonprofit office space for 2 organizations focused on youth education.