Hopkins Announces 33rd and St. Paul Streets Lot Developer
The lot has sat vacant for years after initial development plans fell through.
Armada Hoffler development team will develop the empty one-acre grass lot at 33rd and St. Paul streets in Charles Village into a mixed-use retail and residential complex. Johns Hopkins University, which owns the lot, announced the selection in a news release Friday. The lot has sat vacant for years after houses and businesses were demolished to make way for a proposed Struever Bros. Eccles and Rouse mixed-use development. However, following the economic collapse, the developer abandoned plans for it’s mixed-use project on the site and sold the land to the university in 2009. Since that time the land has been a grass covered, fenced in vacant lot. In October 2011, several residents turned the lot into a "public park" to advocate for the …
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Drake
7:36 pm on Saturday, March 16, 2013
I would like to see a Whole Foods store on that location. Ok, it may be bad for Eddie's but it would bring lots of young customers from many adjacent areas. It would really be good for Charles Village, which has become dormant and poorer over the years. We need a Whole Foods store on 33 and St Paul. more ›