Overview

The State Center redevelopment offers the rare chance to build on the tremendous economic power of the State’s office presence in Baltimore and knit together existing transit, cultural, institutional, university, and neighborhood assets.

With its proximity to downtown and direct access to local and regional transportation networks, State Center is an ideal location for the development of a uniquely vibrant Transit Oriented Development (TOD). State Center also offers the potential to spur further investment in the surrounding neighborhoods of Midtown and West Baltimore.

Having completed infill TODs in urban settings across the country, and with an unswerving commitment to stakeholder engagement and comprehensive community revitalization, The Partnership is ideally suited to create a successful, authentic urban community where the State Center office buildings now stand.

Community Planning Process

In May 2007, the development team launched a community planning process that focuses on maximining the participation of surrounding neighborhoods and stakeholder institutions in an effort to collaborative craft a plan for the redevelopment of State Center.  Known as CityScaping, this process provides for many opportunities for community input at five stages 1. Plan the Plan, 2. Educate, 3. Vision, 4. Plan, 5. Deliverables.

Download the full CityScaping Schedule and other key CityScaping Documents.

This effort will build off of the work that the State did, first in creating the State Center Development Alliance and then articulating its vision in the Draft State Center Transit-Oriented Development Strategy.

Prior to the launch of the community planning process, the State Center development team has devoted the lion’s share of its energies and resources on due diligence activities so as to better understand the site and building conditions. Theses activities have included a building assessment preliminary environmental studies, utility surveying and the compilation of available geo-technical reporting. Having this information provides us all with a much clearer picture of the site’s opportunities and challenges and are a vitally necessary step in the development process.

Check the resource library to review and download all CityScaping documents.