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

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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