For years, a housing-and-retail complex northwest of downtown was so crime-plagued it was dubbed the “Murder Mall.” Today, Ashleigh Choi Cross and John Cross are living at that location in a brand-new $400,000 townhouse.

In December, the married couple bought the three-bedroom home in Reservoir Square, a burgeoning development in a neighborhood that has long struggled to reverse a 1970s-era decline. A key selling point for the pair: Baltimore’s historic drop in violent crime.

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