BALTIMORE—Developers Interpark LLC and Comstock Partners presented it plans late last week for a tower building of at least 38 stories at 300 E. Pratt St. to the city's design panel.
The project as proposed would include a 200-room hotel, approximately 400 apartments, a maximum of 20,000 square feet of retail space and more than 500 parking spaces, according to the Baltimore Sun.
"We want to try to make this building distinctly Baltimorean … but at the same time, we want this building to be of the 21st century," says Gregory Luongo, a Washington-based vice president at HKS, the architecture firm working on the development plan. "Future postcards of the City of Baltimore will feature this site."
The property has been vacant since the News American building was demolished in 1990. Plans for development projects by two previous owners never broke ground.
Some members of the city's design panel expressed concerns that the building design devotes much of its first floor to parking, service and mechanical uses. Another issue was whether the developer could conceal its six-story parking garage rather than have it visible from the waterfront. See story in the Baltimore Sun.
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