Baltimore Checkbook: Scott Plank, group of donors plan $2.4M renovation of Baltimore Police Department’s Western station

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Scott Plank, group of donors plan $2.4M renovation of Baltimore Police Department’s Western station

A $2.4 million redevelopment of the beleaguered, nearly 60-year-old Western Police District is expected to be presented to the city’s Board of Estimates Wednesday to be funded with private donations from several of the city’s top philanthropists. The Baltimore Police Department’s district, located at 1034 Mount St., was in the spotlight last April during the unrest that rocked Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray in police custody. The redesign aims to “serve as the prototype for a new…