NEWS
By Mary Gail Hare, The Baltimore Sun | July 27, 2012
An early morning fire at a Randallstown apartment complex has displaced 16 people and damaged 12 units. One firefighter from the Pikesville Volunteer Fire Company received minor injuries and has been treated and released from an area hospital. Firefighters responded shortly after 2 a.m., when the the Baltimore County 911 Center received several calls about a fire on the third floor of a building in the 3600 block Yennar Lane, near North Rolling Road. The fire spread quickly across the attic and through the roof of two adjoining buildings.
BUSINESS
By Steve Kilar and The Baltimore Sun | December 10, 2012
Yet another downtown commercial building is being converted to apartments. The red-brick building at 300 Cathedral St., known as Odd Fellows Hall, is currently being refurbished by a Washington-based developer, Broadwater Capital LLC, the Downtown Partnership said in a statement Monday. The building will contain 59 market-rate apartments and will begin leasing next summer, the partnership said. It is situated between West Pleasant and West Saratoga streets. “There continues to be a significant demand for professionals to move closer to their work and 300 Cathedral's proximity to Baltimore's City Center, Mount Vernon and the Westside provides tenants a Class-A living space that is within walking distance to major businesses, the Inner Harbor, Medical Centers and local restaurants,” said Ahmad Hajj, a principal with Broadwater Capital, in the partnership's statement . Broadwater purchased the 72,000 square foot building in September for $1.1 million, according to state tax records.
BUSINESS
March 13, 2010
The owner of a vacant nine-story office building at 11 E. Chase St. in Midtown-Belvedere is seeking city approval to convert the property to 56 apartments. A group called Daejan 11 E. Chase LLC, represented by Samuel Monderer, has applied to Baltimore's Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals to convert the historic Algonquin building to residential use. Monderer also controls the neighboring apartment building at 1010 St. Paul St. and a parking lot between the two buildings. A zoning board hearing has been set for Tuesday.
BUSINESS
By Steve Kilar and The Baltimore Sun | December 3, 2012
A Virginia firm is planning to convert 10 Light Street, Baltimore's iconic red-brick office tower topped with green and gold, into apartments. “The 520,000 square foot, 34 story structure will be converted to 445 for-lease residences,” according to a statement on the website of Metropolitan Partnership Ltd., the Reston, Va., development firm that purchased the building in November for $6 million. Ten Light was completed in 1929 and last sold in 2002, for $5.3 million to the Nellis Corp.
BUSINESS
By Edward Gunts | ed.gunts@baltsun.com | March 17, 2010
The Algonquin was known as one of Baltimore's finest apartment buildings when it opened around 1914, with fluted columns, parquet floors, oak paneling and fireplaces in many of the residences. The renowned architect William Nolting, of Wyatt and Nolting, designed the building at 11 E. Chase St. and lived in apartment E-8 for nearly 20 years. In the 1940s, the nine-story building was converted to doctors' offices and became known as the Medical Arts Building. Now it's set to go back to its original use and name, under a $5 million plan to turn it back to "high-end" apartments.
NEWS
April 1, 1992
Westminster Church Homes Foundation Inc. is host for a Celebration of Progress at 2 p.m. Sunday for 79 new apartments at Ridge Residences, 101 Timber Ridge Drive.The new residences will provide apartments for low-income and frail elderly citizens and include kitchen and dining room.The building is being built by Hostetter Construction Corp. of Hanover, Pa. Money for the $4.6 million project have come primarily from Housing and Urban Development and Community Development Administration. Local funds of $100,000 have been contributed, but $200,000 moreis needed to cover expenses not included in the mortgage.