HISTORY

Founded in 1993, the Edmondson Community Organization has been, for decades, both a key community leader in the Midtown-Edmondson area of Baltimore, as well as an important convener of a wide range of community groups - including for station-area planning related to the Red Line light rail project.

In 2022, the ECO was reinvigorated with new leadership, a new board, an updated registration with the State of Maryland, and an updated registration with the IRS as a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Rapid, equitable, transformational revitalization of the disinvested areas in Midtown-Edmondson and nearby communities is the ECO’s primary focus now.

To help the ECO in that endeavor, it has linked up with the HUB West Baltimore Community Development Corporation and agreed to incorporate that organization directly into the ECO’s structure, under the supervision of the ECO’s board, making it part and parcel of the ECO’s 501(c)(3). HUB West Baltimore is now the development-focused unit of the ECO, wholly controlled by that parent organization, and concentrating at the ECO’s direction on the physical and transportation-related goals of the community.