GBC History

For more than five decades the Greater Baltimore Committee, the region's premier organization of business and civic leaders, has focused the resources of its broad membership on the key issues relating to business climate and quality of life in the Greater Baltimore region.

The GBC was organized on Jan. 5, 1955 as an action committee designed to mobilize the commercial, industrial and professional leadership of Baltimore to bring about tangible and rapid improvements in the community. Here is a brief history on GBC's involvement in the projects that transformed Baltimore City.