A long-vacant community center on Maryland Avenue is the newest revitalization project in Baltimore’s Station North Arts and Entertainment District.
The former Maryland Community Resource Center at Maryland and Lafayette avenues was sold in a foreclosure auction in March for $1.155 million, and the property settled in June.
The buyer was 1734 Maryland LLC, a group headed by Baltimore entrepreneur Dennis Richter. Alex Cooper Auctioneers handled the sale.
Highly visible to drivers heading south on Maryland Avenue, the property is actually an assemblage of eight parcels: 1715, 1717, 1719, 1721, 1723 and 1734 Maryland Avenue and 19 and 21 West Lafayette Avenue. It includes a surface parking lot with 15 to 20 spaces as well as about 28,000 square feet of office and meeting space in new and rehabbed structures. Five of the parcels were 1890s row houses.
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