Perkins Homes transforms into Perkins Square with multiple types of housing

The construction fence came down at Caroline and Pratt streets a few days ago and revealed a new, renamed Perkins Homes neighborhood. It’s now being marketed as Perkins Square and there are fresh and shiny apartment rectangles faced with light colored siding and aluminum entry doors.

Those old boxy brick 1940s public housing courts have vanished. It’s a squeaky clean new environment, sitting between Fells Point and Little Italy. Caroline Street, the main north-south thoroughfare, is emerging as a vastly different street.