MCB Real Estate, the developer of Reservoir Square at 700 W. North Avenue with 120 townhouses so far, is asking for community support to allow it to build 52 more single-family units where once they had planned a mixed-use office/residential/retail building. MCB Managing Partner David Bramble and several others from the firm met with Reservoir Hill and Bolton Hill community members on Dec. 1.
BHCA President Lee Tawney named Beth Brenner, Jeff Thompson, Charlie Duff, Davin Hong and Sallye Perrin to a neighborhood State Center Working Group to keep tabs on the sometimes confusing and conflicting plans for the soon-empty campus of public buildings just south of Bolton Hill.
Although it has been decades in the making, the city wants you to know that there is a planning process at work around future development of Druid Hill Park Lake, although no end date is yet in view.
In a ceremony akin to those that used to announce the circus coming to town, every elected official from near and far showed up on April 28 at a long-vacant property located across from Bolton Hill’s northeastern boundary. All came to announce the arrival, someday on this space, of a new 12,000 square-foot full-service grocery store – Streets Market.
Pedestal Gardens, the collection of substandard low-income apartments on both the east and west sides of Eutaw Place, apparently once again has been sold – adding new uncertainly to long-standing plans and hopes for redevelopment and the construction of mixed-income housing there.
The past year has been a period of planning and fundraising for the lot renovation at the southeast corner of Park and North Avenues, all part of a project to rejuvenate the space between Bolton Hill and Reservoir Hill called Unity@Park Avenue.
Nearly eight years after developers David Bramble and Mark Renbaum announced their intention to build market-rate townhouses, apartments and offices off North Avenue near Bolton Hill’s northern border, construction has begun on an initial strip of residences facing Park Ave.
The city planning department’s late February open house for nearby residents to provide input on what to do with the soon-to-be-abandoned 18-acre State Center on Bolton Hill’s south border was, some would say, a nothing-burger.
More than a year after former Gov. Larry Hogan agreed to transfer Maryland’s 28-acre State Center tract over to Baltimore City, city planners have selected an urban designer to start preparing a master plan to guide redevelopment of the property.
After six years of work and about $140 million in mostly federal and state funds, Druid Hill Lake Reservoir is back in full operation — providing covered and treated fresh water for Bolton Hill and hundreds of thousands of other residents and businesses in the city, Baltimore County and beyond.
