Photo by flickr user wallyg.
Despite, or perhaps in conjunction with the recession, Fells Point can now claim the best example of metonymic optimism of any Baltimore neighborhood. The architectural preservation panel in Fells Point has just approved plans for a $60 million renovation of the historic Broadway Market.
The Broadway Market has held its current location for over 200 years. The present market building was built in 1864, though a fire in the 1960s did away with the second story. It should be noted that while plans are in place to restore the historic structures along the 600 and 700 block of South Broadway (including the aforementioned second story), the lion’s share of the budget will go toward the 160 apartments and 30,000 square feet of window-shoppable retail space adjacent to the market.
One of the project’s goals is to generate more local street traffic at all hours, and thus to break the tautology of crummy neighborhood avoidance. South Broadway Properties, which is a partnership between David Holmes and Daniel Winner, has been purchasing individual units of property since 2005. Their plans are now one panel vote closer to execution.
What do you think of the Broadway Market in either its present tense form or its future subjunctive?
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I am really excited about this project and definitely think it’s a winner. I hope they begin soon. Even in a tough market, I can’t see how this project could lose.
Bring it on! Broadway Market has been on the decline for years and needs all the help it can get. I’m thinking a satelitte location for Faidley’s Seafood
Gosh I hope this starts soon. Tired of seeing vacant storefronts. The Fells Point Community needs to put this one on the fast track!
Sounds awesome, do you know when they plan on breaking ground, or where we can get a timeline project scope?
They were supposed to be breaking ground in the near present, but by the looks of things when I walked by this afternoon, we may be holding our breath for a while longer.
I am looking foreward to this. I think it will really go well with the all the construction John’s Hopkins is doing and what that will bring into the Nieborhood. Think about what Harbor East used to be. This is a step in the right direction. Though I hate to say it and it may piss some off I would like to see some big anchor retail in the project. But I am glad to see it is still in the works I thought it was stalled with the economy.