After a long process, with many different opinions expressed, the Board of Regents finally approved plans to build a University of Maryland branch on a 425 acre tract of mostly State-owned land near Catonsville in Baltimore County. An article in The Evening Sun newspaper announced the selection of Catonsville for the new campus site and specified that the “tentative site plan shows a large parking lot…”
Stabler family papers, Collection 27, articles; newspapers, 23 x 15.