Jay Brodie: Bold vision needed for East Baltimore

Editor's note: M.J. "Jay" Brodie, the former president of the Baltimore Development Corp., is a contributing writer for the Business Journal. This is his debut column.

I was born and raised in East Baltimore. My neighborhood — centered on North Broadway, Fayette, Orleans, Jefferson, Monument and Madison Streets — regularly draws me back, professionally as well as personally.

The decades have brought changes, good and bad, to my neighborhood. The former Church Home and Hospital — where I was…