A Greener
Baltimore

For your health will include the Baltimore based health and medical service providers that recognize, support and prioritize the park system as an important component of a healthy, active quality of life (See Park Rx at http://www.parkrx.org)

• John Hopkins medicine
• Med Star Health
• University of Maryland Medical System
• LifeBridge Health
• Anne Arundel Medical Center
• Greater Baltimore Medical Center
• MERCY MEDICAL CENTER
• maryland.va.gov
• University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center
• Saint Agnes Hospital
• Sheppard Pratt Health System
• Bon Secours Baltimore Health System
• Kennedy Krieger Institute

The following stores and facilities are examples of places where you will receive top quality products and excellent service. This list is preliminary and does not contain all the fitness facilities that may join Park Walk Baltimore. Those listed after Earth Day, April 22, 2025 will provide financial support to Baltimore’s parks and recreation areas with each purchase and usage.

1. Planet Fitness
2. Fitness Evolution
3. LA Fitness
4. Maryland Athletic Club
5. Merritt Athletic Club
6. Gold’s Gym
7. Brick Bodies
8. Dick’s Sporting Goods
9. Under Armour Outlet

In an effort to incorporate the stewardship of parks and recreational area into the broader agenda of environmentalism, Park Walk America has chosen Sustainability as the focal point to support both initiatives.

The Baltimore Office of Sustainability has developed a comprehensive model whose goal is to meet the current environmental, social, and economic needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet these needs. The Baltimore model, outlined at www.baltimoresustainability.org, focuses on six areas: Cleanliness, Pollution Prevention, Resource Conservation, Greening, Transportation, and Education & Awareness. Park Walk America

Beginning with Park Walk Baltimore, Park Walk America will support the Baltimore Office of Sustainability model and use it to expand its Sustainability initiative to the other cities, counties, and states that become part of the Park Walk America Network.

The Park Walk Baltimore online shopping platform is under development & will be fully available September 2025.This unfortunate delay is being caused by major market fluctuations due to the expected economic downturn.
The primary cause of the implementation delay is the price fluctuations due to the volatility of the response to worldwide tariffs. Companies and organizations seeking Park Walk America membership before September 2025 will receive a 25% Charter Member discount

Answers to who, what, why, when, and how are the basis to a better understanding of projects, proposals, programs, and businesses.

The answers for Park Walk America follow:

1. Who

   Park Walk America (PWA) was developed by ABC Ventures, a Baltimore-based corporate development company specializing in building business bottom lines through implementation of strategic marketing programs that support national issues and concerns, i.e., cause marketing. A group of former senior executives and managers of Fortune 500 companies staff the company. Each Park Walk America site will be a public-private partnership with the local public park organization and other park related nonprofits being the recipients of Park Walk America grant funds.

2. What
   

   PWA was designed as a multi-faceted approach to empower people, businesses, the nonprofit sector, and the public sector to work in an unprecedented coalition to:

   1. Enhance the quality of life for people and their neighborhoods, cities, and states by leveraging the power of the Internet to maximize medical, fitness, wellness, and environmental (sustainability) education

   2. Promote active participation in fitness and wellness programs to build a healthier workforce that will have higher productivity and morale as well as lower absenteeism and health benefit costs.

   3. Engage national and local businesses in an ecommerce based marketing platform that will build their sales while allocation a portion of their revenues to provide a much needed non-tax revenue base for cities and states to better maintain, develop, and steward America’s parks and recreation areas.

   4. Promote Sustainability of the individual, the neighborhood, the city, and the state as a central theme

3. Why

   America is facing critical timing problems to address major issues in health care, fitness, environmental stewardship, and under funding of America’s parks and recreational areas.

4. When

   Further delays in creating solutions make the problems worse. The time for action and a creative innovative solution is now. The first phase of Park Walk America, Park Walk Baltimore is slated to launch September 2025. Beginning in September 2025, more cities and states across the country can have Park Walk sites developed for their markets. The effort will continue until every city and state interested in joining the coalition has its own Park Walk site and funding capability.

5. How

   Each Park Walk site will have a custom designed web page, linked to the Park Walk America home page, that will be an geographically specific information portal on health, fitness, sustainability, and shopping (see prototype brochure). Businesses listing on the web site will pay linkage and marketing fees that will be allocated to park organizations and public agencies in restricted usage accounts. The net funds, after business expenses, will be specifically used for park maintenance, programming, and development.