Gentei, Baltimore City?s only premium sneaker, skateboard and street apparel boutique ? shuttered in a July break-in that resulted in $5,000 in damage and $25,000 in creatively obtained urban-trendy merchandise ? will reopen by month?s end with a new, more far-sighted retail outlook, owner Oliver Jones said.

“That whole sneaker mania, here-today-gone-tomorrow thing, I?m trying to phase out a little bit,” Jones said of the booming, multibillion-dollar craze in premium sneaker and hip-hop-style streetware that likely figured into a burglary which cost him $70,000 in shut-down-related sales losses.