A prime example of the new guard:
Woodberry Kitchen, an award-winning
farm-to-table restaurant in Clipper Mill,
a former ironworking factory. Just down
the stream sits the even newer Mill No. 1,
in a former sailcloth factory, which houses
restaurants like Cosima and industrial-chic
event spaces like Heron Room.
It’s not just the former mills getting modern
reworks, though. Over in Station North, the
historic Parkway Theater, which dates to
1915, underwent an $18-million renovation in
2016 that restored its Italianate architecture,
including original molding, tile fl oors, ornate
stage frame and curving balcony. In early
2018, a $14 million project converted a former
Sears-Roebuck warehouse in Hampden into a
development dubbed Union Collective, which
houses independent Baltimore businesses
like coff ee roasters, ice cream shops, an
anchor brewery and a whiskey distiller. And
Building, renovated in 2009 to become home
to Humanim, a nonprofi t agency focused on
human services and workforce development.
When it comes to converting old buildings
in East Baltimore is the American Brewery
into interesting new concepts, Baltimore’s
just getting started. Here are just a few of the
upcoming projects currently in the works to
put a new spin on old buildings:
Hoen Lithograph
In East Baltimore, a $27 million project is
underway to transform the long-abandoned
Hoen Lithograph building into a mixed-
use complex intended to provide job
amenities, while restoring the historic
architecture of the 85,000-square-foot former
printing plant. A partnership between Cross
Street Partners, City Life Historic Properties
and Strong City Baltimore and bolstered
opportunities, training and neighborhood
by federal funding, the project will include
offi ces for nonprofi ts and social enterprises,
a workforce training and development
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center, plus restaurants, retail and event a place that collective nonprofi ts could work in
space. It’s part of several projects within to solve problems of East and West Baltimore,”
Baltimore aimed at boosting underserved Cross Street Partners vice president John
neighborhoods through new economic Renner told the Baltimore Business Journal
opportunities and community-based in 2018. “There are synergies. They can
initiatives. “The theory is we wanted to create collaborate and share resources.”
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