Growing up I spent some time at Pimlico Race Track, but I was born at Sinai Hospital.

Not at the Sinai that neighbors the track, but when it was located on Wolfe Street on what is now the Johns Hopkins Hospital campus.

I made note of this when I spoke yesterday at the first groundbreaking on the Pimlico-Sinai redevelopment site.

The hospital bought the eastern end of the track property several years ago. It’s a parking lot for hospital employees 363 days of the year.  Preakness Weekend it’s still for racing fans.

The Center for Hope will be the first new structure on this site.  It will provide intervention and prevention for child abuse, domestic violence, and community violence.

It’s a major step forward for all of the communities that neighbor Sinai and Pimlico Race Track.