![]() ![]() New web site was launched by the fans of cybertown on As of February, 2012, the domain for Cybertown and its parent company, IVN, was offline. The cost was $5.00 per month or $49.99 a year.Īs of September 2011 the site's membership base declined. Each user was allowed a free 2D home and could locate it within any of a number of colonies subdivided into neighborhoods and blocks. Users were able to have jobs within the community, earning virtual money called CC's (Cit圜ash) that could be used to buy 3D homes and items. There were places ( chat rooms) available either through a 2D or 3D chat environment. Rye Street Market is expected to be finished in late 2020.Cybertown (CT) (formerly Colony City) was a free (changed to pay per year in 2002), family friendly, online community. The 180,000-square-foot property will include “boutique loft-style creative office buildings,” a market, restaurants and shops. The just-announced cybersecurity firms will move into the development’s initial phase of buildings, known as Rye Street Market. The project will include office buildings, hotels, residential, and riverfront parks. The entire project is expected to take 25 years and include 2.5 miles of restored waterfront and 40 acres of green space. It promises to bring thousands of new jobs to the waterfront. The 235-acre Port Covington redevelopment is already home to an Under Armour corporate campus, whiskey distillery Sagamore Spirit and restaurant Rye Street Tavern. “This new development at Port Covington will further spur development of cyber companies, bringing much-needed jobs, capital investment, and business opportunities to Baltimore City and our state,” said Governor Hogan. Why? Because Port Covington has it all: prime waterfront location, connectivity, an abundance of existing dynamic tech talent and an entrepreneurial ethos focused on future growth,” said lead Port Covington developer Marc Weller, partner of Weller Development Company.ĭataTribe’s co-founder, Mike Janke, even called Port Covington the future “Cyber Town, USA.” He noted that Maryland has the largest cyber workforce in the world, with more than 109,000 cyber-related engineering and data science professionals. “These businesses are leaving Silicon Valley, an area thought to be the nation’s tech capital, in order to become part of something new and exciting here. ![]() And Evergreen Advisors, based in Columbia, Maryland, is an investment banking and corporate advisory firm. AllegisCyber is one of the oldest Silicon Valley early-stage cybersecurity venture capital firms. DataTribe is a globally-known cybersecurity startup studio. ![]() Two of the three already have a presence in Silicon Valley. On Thursday, developers, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, and Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh announced that three major cybersecurity firms are relocating and expanding to the waterfront property. A development company owned by Under Armour founder Kevin Plank announced plans to redevelop it in 2016.Ī rendering of the Port Covington redevelopment by Weller Development Company When the terminal closed, it sat vacant for decades, and more recently housed a Walmart. Port Covington, on the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River, started as a railroad terminal in the early 20th century. South Baltimore’s new waterfront redevelopment, Port Covington, is poised to become a national “leading cybersecurity and technology hub,” city and state leaders say.
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