(Baltimore Sun) — From a window of his family’s longtime North Bond Street rowhouse in East Baltimore, Lloyd Williams videotaped the activity on the street. A builder and home remodeler who grew up in the Oliver neighborhood, Williams was shocked by how the area had deteriorated since he left in the early 1990s. The scene was surreal, he thought, with addicts darting around corners to score drugs. “It was something out of a story, some type of science fiction story, to see people controlled by drugs so vividly,” he said. Williams, 46, president and CEO of The Verde Group, a Baltimore development company, decided that he wanted to help turn around his old neighborhood, starting with the North Bond Street home his grandfather bought in 1942. Documenting the decay was a starting point, and that’s what he set out to do nearly four years ago.
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