Sparrow's Point

After the demise of steel making, thousands of new jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars of investment could be coming to Sparrow’s Point over the next decade. We take an in-depth look at the economic possibilities for the area with Kevin Kamenetz, Baltimore County executive; Dan Gunderson, executive director of the Baltimore County Department of Economic Development; and Daraius Irani, executive director of the Regional Economic Studies Institute at Towson University.  

Baltimore steel workers continue to reel from news that the last mills at Sparrows Point will be sold for parts and razed. More than 2,000 workers lost their jobs; many still can’t find work. So what does the future hold for these workers and others in U.S. manufacturing? Is there be a quiet comeback underway, as some experts suggest, or is the era of mass employment through American manufacturing truly over?