20,000-Square-Foot Belvedere Square Expansion Planned

The co-owner of Belvedere Square wants to expand the shopping center by 20,000-square-feet as part of a rebranding of the North Baltimore shopping center, according to the Baltimore Business Journal.

C. William "Bill" Struever also wants rechristened the shopping center "Baltimore Square Market" and unveiled a new sign at a Planning Commission meeting on Thursday.

"Our hope is to have a great diversity of market merchants with a major focus on fresh. Local, healthy foods and with the major celebration of the branding of the new market," Struever reportedly told the Planning Commission.  

The rebranding of the market comes on the heels of a lot of changes in the area near the York Road and Northern Parkway intersection.  

The $3 million rehab of the Senator Theatre, is expected to be completed shortly, and Spike Gjerde is preparing to open Shoo-Fly diner in the shopping center next month.