Morgan L. Amaimo II, a former Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks official who left his mark on the city, died Oct. 23 from heart failure at TidalHealth Nanticoke Hospital in Seaford, Delaware. The Towson resident was 77.

“Morgan accomplished so many great things,” said Paul Henry, who worked with Mr. Amaimo in city government and was a close friend. “His decisions were always the right ones, and the great thing about Morgan was he wanted to make city life better for people.”

Morgan Louis Amaimo II, son of Morgan L. Amaimo, an attorney, and Rita LaCroix Amaimo, who managed the family home, was born in Baltimore and spent the 1950s growing up on Mount Royal Avenue near Druid Hill Park. His appreciation and love of parks began with the nearly 700-acre Druid Hill Park.

But times were changing. Mr. Amaimo was robbed at knifepoint when walking to school, his parents’ home was burglarized three times and his mother was thrown to the ground by thieves exiting her home. In 1959, the family relocated to Homeland, and his love affair with his favorite park came to an end — for a time.

After graduating from Baltimore City College in 1964, he earned a bachelor’s degree in 1969 in psychology from the University of Baltimore and a master’s degree in 1977 in public administration.

He taught special education students in Prince George’s and Baltimore counties before going to work for Maryland prisons and Baltimore City Jail, where he helped the incarcerated obtain General Education Development diplomas.

In the 1970s, he joined the city’s Department of Finance, and in the 1980s, became chief financial development officer with the Baltimore Department of Recreation and Parks, where he worked arm-in-arm with the agency’s director, Chris T. Delaporte.

Mr. Delaporte, who died in 2016, later became the first director of the Maryland Stadium Authority after leaving recreation and parks.

They worked together to privatize city-owned golf courses and developed the Myers Pavilion, the Clarence H. Du Burns Soccer Arena and the Baltimore Rowing & Water Resources Center. Other projects included the Mount Pleasant Ice Arena, Canton Waterfront Park, the Druid Hill Park Golf Course and the Carrie Murray Nature Center in Leakin Park — the city’s only nature center.

The two men also worked diligently to develop recreational possibilities at Port Covington.

And when Mr. Delaporte sought to establish an Outward Bound program at Leakin Park, he turned to Mr. Amaimo, said his wife of 36 years, Marcia A. Goodreau, a retired Community College of Baltimore County administrator.

After leaving the city, Mr. Amaimo was named chief of the Bureau of Parks in Howard County, a position he held for two years before launching his real estate career.

“Morgan was always a gentleman who was very thorough and always got the deal done,” said John Macgruder, who worked with Mr. Amaimo at O’Conor, Piper & Flynn.

Until retiring in 2010, Mr. Amaimo spent the bulk of his real estate career at Long & Foster.

“He sold more than 700 houses in Baltimore City. He was one busy guy,” his wife said.

An Orioles and Ravens fan, he also enjoyed traveling and spending time at a second home he and his wife shared in Bethany Beach, Delaware.

Plans for a celebration of life gathering are incomplete.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by two nieces and several cousins.