In its latest career change, Whitehall Mill becoming a new center of attention

The strategy to outsmart floods that can sweep through the Jones Falls Valley is simple, yet effective — install thick aquarium glass in the ground-floor windows.

While touring the Whitehall Mill, the historic complex undergoing a $22 million makeover to become apartments, offices, a food market and restaurant, I learned about precautions to keep this remarkable structure dry, if not high, from the waters of Baltimore’s picturesque and rocky stream.

The current transformation is the latest for a building that has…

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