Renew Baltimore is an organization founded in 2008 by Zachary Gallant, in the hopes that Baltimore City could be renewed through local efforts. Linking to local producers, performers and activists, RenewBaltimore.com seeks to take the best of our plentiful resources and bring them together to build an economic movement to restore commerce, jobs, and justice to our community.
By educating people about the choices they make and how they can make socially conscious choices in their daily lives, we hope to improve the future of our city.
Top 3 Baltimore Spending Tips
- If you're cooking at home, shop at either farmers markets or the local markets like Lexington or Broadway, and stay away from the major grocery chains. There's a common misconception that major stores are less expensive, but experience has shown this to be false. Fresh vegetables at the farmers market often cost less than the frozen ones at Safeway. Fresh fish from Lexington Market is much less expensive than the packaged fish at Giant.
- If you're dining out, hit up locally owned places instead of big names. Cheesecake Factory and P.F. Changs are popping up everywhere. If you're going to spend 20 bucks on a meal, try it at a locally owned place like Akbar's Indian restaurant on Charles Street. If you're dropping $5 on a footlong sub at Subway, rethink it and go next door to Never On Sunday. And if you want fried chicken, skip KFC. There are over 300 citizen-owned chicken shacks in the city.
- How much is that American Apparel t-shirt? Drop it. That RocaWear jacket? Let it go. Shop Squidfire or Status Apparatus or any of the countless independent clothing shops in Lexington Market or Hampden or Charles Village. It's often cheaper, almost always cooler, and feeds Baltimore's desperate economy.
