The Baltimore Carpenter's Project

In early 2019, Bryant Muldrew, BCP’s founder, was working as a Paraeducator for the Baltimore City Public School System (BCPSS) in an alternative school. During this time, Bryant began to question this career choice due to mounting stress and the inadequacies of the BCPSS. By the end of the 2019, Bryant joined the United Botherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.

As a result of his carpentry training and his former training as a community organizer, Bryant began to contemplate how to use carpentry to positively impact the city of Baltimore. He began to envision a city where boarded homes were minimal and the majority of families owned their homes rather than rent them.

Bryant grew up in the Park Heights community of Northwest Baltimore in the 1990s. During that time, most of his neighbors owned their homes. As the availability of job opportunities decreased, families moved away or lost their homes. Now, his old neighhorhood is filled with vacant dilapidated properties. Bryant envisions a healthy balance between investors and native homeowners who work together to rebuild and maintain the health of Baltimore’s neighborhoods.

The only way to accomplish this is inspire new carpenters who are vested in the longevity of their own neighborhoods. Over the decades, the carpentry trade has been deemphasize for less labor-intensive fields. The result is a lack of fresh innovative carpenters to keep Baltimore’s housing and infrastructure in quality condition.

BCP’s vision includes a coalition of homeowners, local carpenters, real estate investors, community organizations, and schools working together to restore Baltimore to its former glory.

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