Actor Malik Yoba embraces his latest role — as real life Baltimore developer

Actor Malik Yoba came to Baltimore last week to check on what he called a role of a lifetime. Standing at a once forgotten, rough-and-tumble corner in West Baltimore, the star of “New York Undercover,” “Empire,” “Designated Survivor” and several films looked up to inspect a pair of apartment buildings at the $800 million Center/West development. As an investor in the project with developers and Ian Arias, Yoba is branching out his successful career from the stage to the street.