<P> Following the death of Freddie Gray in April 2015, the city experienced major protests and international media attention, as well as a clash between local youth and police which resulted in a state of emergency declaration and curfew . </P> <P> Baltimore has suffered from a high homicide rate for several decades, peaking in 1993, and again in 2015 . These deaths have taken a severe toll especially on the local black community . </P> <P> By the beginning of the 1970s, Baltimore's downtown area known as the Inner Harbor had been neglected and was occupied by a collection of abandoned warehouses . The nickname "Charm City" came from a 1975 meeting of advertisers seeking to improve the city's reputation . Efforts to redevelop the area started with the construction of the Maryland Science Center, which opened in 1976, the Baltimore World Trade Center (1977), and the Baltimore Convention Center (1979). Harborplace, an urban retail and restaurant complex, opened on the waterfront in 1980, followed by the National Aquarium, Maryland's largest tourist destination, and the Baltimore Museum of Industry in 1981 . During the epidemic of HIV / AIDS in the United States, Baltimore City Health Department official Robert Mehl persuaded the city's mayor to form a committee to address food problems; the Baltimore - based charity Moveable Feast grew out of this initiative in 1990 . By 2010, the organization's region of service had expanded from merely Baltimore to include all of the Eastern Shore of Maryland . In 1992, the Baltimore Orioles baseball team moved from Memorial Stadium to Oriole Park at Camden Yards, located downtown near the harbor . Pope John Paul II held an open - air mass at Camden Yards during his papal visit to the United States in October 1995 . Three years later the Baltimore Ravens football team moved into M&T Bank Stadium next to Camden Yards . </P> <P> Baltimore has seen the reopening of the Hippodrome Theatre in 2004, the opening of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture in 2005, and the establishment of the National Slavic Museum in 2012 . On April 12, 2012, Johns Hopkins held a dedication ceremony to mark the completion of one of the United States' largest medical complexes--the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore--which features the Sheikh Zayed Cardiovascular and Critical Care Tower and The Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children's Center . The event, held at the entrance to the $1.1 billion 1.6 million - square - foot - facility, honored the many donors including Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, first president of the United Arab Emirates, and Michael Bloomberg . </P>

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