Blaze cripples historic shopping center

(Examiner) - Baltimore fire officials said it’s too soon to determine the cause of a Monday blaze that destroyed four stores in Edmondson Village Shopping Center, a 61-year-old Baltimore National Pike landmark trumpeted as the city’s first large strip mall.
... Opened in 1947, the shopping center was the only planned, integrated shopping center in Baltimore under one ownership. Continued

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