On a monthly basis, we post a high-level summary of work that has happened with Invest York Road (IYR) over the course of the previous month so that community members can stay informed about the progress being made.

Here are updates for the month of October:

• IYR enlisted the support of a commercial real estate broker to aid in our search for properties in the corridor.
• The Brookings Institute's Buy Back the Block program continued to provide our team with excellent technical assistance in commercial real estate.
• Our community engagement team tabled at city council member Mark Conway's town hall event.

On a monthly basis, we post a high-level summary of work that has happened with Invest York Road (IYR) over the course of the previous month so that community members can stay informed about the progress being made.

Here are updates for the month of September:

• IYR's participation in the Brookings Institute's Buy Back the Block program continued, and we received a grant from the Baltimore Community Foundation to support this work.
• We began actively researching and evaluating properties in the York Road corridor to find our first acquisition to pursue.
• The IYR Steering Committee hosted staff members from the City of Baltimore's Department of Planning to discuss zoning in our service area.
• The CityLab program at Johns Hopkins hosted an Invest York Road presentation and discussion.
• Our community engagement team tabled at the Govans Elementary Back to School Night event.
• We created a new "Intro to Community Investing and Invest York Road" module for our free community financial and investment literacy program.