Since the 1700s, Canton has been valued for its strategic Harbor location, just a few miles east of downtown Baltimore. By day, the blue-collar denizens of this era worked at the brewery, the canneries, or shipyards, and by night they frequented the pubs and speak-easies of Canton's O'Donnell Square. The cannery and the cargo ships are long gone, but O'Donnell Square has remained a Canton landmark, brimming with trendy shops and busy restaurants.

Over the past decade, Canton's hip waterfront location and tiny commute-time to Baltimore and I-95/I-895 has triggered a new era of revitalization. Smart developers gave Canton's noble industrial relics a new purpose in a wave of progressive redevelopment. Soon, the likes of the Can Company Complex and Tindeco Warf emerged, giving Canton a burgeoning tech industry, lavish waterfront condos, and splendid new places to meet, eat, and shop.

The next phase in this era of high-minded redevelopment is the billion-dollar, 65-acre Canton Crossing project. Canton Crossing promises an innovative mix of homes, shops, eateries, and businesses in a romantic city centerpiece on the waterfront. Canton Crossing will be a landmark that blends the best of classic Harbor-town life and chic urban renewal. Canton Crossing is ushering in a whole new idea of Canton with wonderful new possibilities — a notion that we Canton U.S.A.