BALTIMORE — An outdated Greyhound bus terminal in downtown Baltimore that stopped working in 1987 is getting new life.
By summer season 2025 the hope is to show the 24,000-square-foot area at Howard and Centre Streets into a squash facility.
Not the vegetable squash, however the sport which is similar to racquetball.
The thought to re-imagine the terminal comes from Abby Markoe, the Executive Director of Baltimore Squashwise, a company targeted on offering Baltimore City youth with sources to succeed in their educational, athletic, and life targets.
Part of Markoe’s plan contains providing after-school tutoring and sports activities applications.
“The program affords a mixture of tutoring, squash teaching and competitors, health, and faculty and profession readiness, with spectacular outcomes,” Markoe mentioned in May 2021 when her group acquired the terminal from Maryland’s Center for History and Culture.
As the one public squash program in Baltimore, the revamped constructing shall be geared up with six courts, a multipurpose health space, school rooms, and rec room.
Markoe says she ultimately desires to develop this system to host native squash matches and regional tournaments in Baltimore.
Squashwise began in 2008 out of the Meadow Mill Athletic Club, in Woodberry, earlier than it closed almost three-years in the past.
