Project Salt Box: “Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicles staged at a Baltimore parking garage quietly relocated to at least two other downtown locations Wednesday, hours before a protest organized to draw attention to the staging site was set to begin. Beginning around 3:00 P.M. and continuing at least until 8:30 P.M., eyewitnesses reported to Project Salt Box the movement of roughly 56 unmarked vehicles — some bearing ICE parking placards, most without license plates — from the upper floors of the Symphony Center garage at 1030 Park Ave. The garage is part of a trio of buildings owned by the Maryland Transit Authority (MTA) and leased to David S. Brown Enterprises, an Owings Mills-based company. It is operated by Federal Parking Incorporated (F.P.I.). The evacuation came a day before a demonstration organized by Indivisible Baltimore, which had announced plans to protest the use of the Symphony Center lot as a vehicle staging site for federal immigration enforcement. The vehicles’ presence at the Symphony Center garage had been known to local advocacy groups since at least January. Numerous vehicles inside the structure were flyered Wednesday with notices informing drivers of its use as a staging site. Eyewitnesses observed the vehicles parking at the Veterans Affairs parking annex on West Fayette Street and at the Centerpoint Garage at 310 West Baltimore Street. At the Centerpoint Garage alone, eyewitnesses reported at least 90 unmarked vehicles — none bearing license plates and all matching the makes and models of the vehicles observed leaving Symphony Center — parked in the structure. According to publicly available land records, the Centerpoint Garage and the Centerpoint Apartments at 8 N. Howard Street are held as a single parcel by M.F. Blue Valley Apartments L.L.C., a Delaware-based corporation…”

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