Those buildings are in the “urban core,” within a few blocks of “bad” neighborhoods but - like many cities - the downtown business district was largely deserted after working hours even before COVID. We lived IN Baltimore city 2007-17, in a racially mixed middle-class neighborhood (probably 60% black, 40% white). The city government is mostly dysfunctional with a bunch of corruption. A lot of the people are great - extremely tolerant of folks’ quirkiness. If you aren’t in the drug trade and mind your own business, crime is fairly uncommon - had one busted car window in 10 years and the change in the ashtray wasn’t even taken, just some copied CDs in the glove box [the thief paid his dues by listening to German techno].