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Old Posted Jul 1, 2014, 6:10 PM
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BALTIMORE | 325 West Baltimore | 325 FT | 29 FLOORS




David S. Brown's planned 29-story tower on Baltimore's west side moves forward

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The city’s design panel on Thursday approved schematic designs for David S. Brown Enterprises Ltd.’s proposed mixed-used office and residential tower at 325 W. Baltimore St.

The 29-story project near the University of Maryland, Baltimore campus will help extend a successful redevelopment run on the west side that David S. Brown chairman Howard S. Brown has led. So far, the redevelopment includes 20,000 square feet of new retail space on the 400 block of West Baltimore and a 40,000-square-foot renovated office building at 405 W. Redwood St.
The project before the Urban Design and Architecture Review Panel on Thursday shows Brown, who has also developed areas surrounding Stevenson University in Owings Mills, is confident that neighborhoods bordering higher education institutions will thrive given their built-in customer and tenant base.

Thursday’s presentation, which was the first to UDARP, showed significant changes to the building’s facade as compared to renderings detailed to the Business Journal in April. Instead of a masonry base and glass tower, architect Richard Burns unveiled a latticed, masonry-colored tiered design over the building’s glass tower, as well as a glass box detail that is part of the tower’s 100,000-square-foot office portion.

Above that glass box is a terrace that marks the start of the 224-unit residential portion of the building; the base of the tower is a mix of first-story retail and a 404-space parking garage. In models Burns showed to UDARP panelists, there are indications that the building could become a dominant structure in the neighborhood.
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The federal government is looking for a huge office lease in downtown Baltimore

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The federal government is in the hunt for between 100,000 and 130,000 square feet of office space in Baltimore's central business district.
The government needs the space starting between 2017 and 2018, according to a solicitation from the General Services Administration. It did not specify which federal agency would be leasing the space.

The GSA requirements include 50 parking spaces reserved for the exclusive use of the government and a small amount of storage space. The lease term would be between 10 and 20 years. Responses are due to the GSA by Oct. 3. You can view the solicitation here.

The solicitation could aid downtown property owners struggling with high vacancy north of Lombard Street, though the federal government is likely to have few options to choose from. There are only two buildings that have that large a block of space downtown: 2 Hopkins Plaza, formerly the PNC building, and the former Bank of America operations center at 225 N. Calvert St.

Downtown Partnership of Baltimore Inc. President Kirby Fowler said that the government-owned 1.1 million-square-foot vacant Metro West is probably not an option because the government is looking for a single-user or buyer. A requirement barring buildings inside the 500-year flood zone also might rule out many buildings along Pratt Street, Fowler said.

Aside from 2 Hopkins Plaza and 225 N. Calvert St., the only other option might be a newly constructed building. That raises the possibility of David S. Brown Enterprises Ltd.'s planned office and residential tower at 325 W. Baltimore St., Fowler said.

"Howard Brown should be pursuing this," Fowler said, referencing the chairman of David S. Brown. "He does not have a tenant for that building, it could accommodate the needs and has the virtue of being just two blocks away from other federal offices. On top of it all, it's a block away from Metro and light rail."


Brown has said the office space in that building could eventually be leased by the University of Maryland, Baltimore — the building is near the university's campus — but he doesn't have a lease in place. Pre-development site work is nearly completed and it could get under construction later this fall, Brown has said, which would put it in the government's time frame.
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Nice density. That facade looks kinda iffy though.
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I think it might change or look better when a newer rendering comes out. The 3d Map model isn't a good approximation. But yea, I'm not really a fan of the colors to be honest. Hopefully they will tweak the design but then again, it may look better with future renderings.
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