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

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