Urban Landscape: Robotic Bicycle Storage Facility and Shop Proposed for Penn Station

4/3/17

By Ed Gunts, Baltimore Fishbowl

A full-service bike shop and robotic bike storage facility would open next to Baltimore’s Penn Station under a proposal from Race Pace Bicycles and Ammon Heisler Sachs Architects.

The two parties originally developed plans several years ago when Amtrak, the operator of Penn Station, was seeking development proposals for adjoining property. The project was never built, but the plans recently resurfaced in a design exhibit at the Chase Street gallery of the Baltimore chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

Renderings on display show a planned multi-story building that would be constructed on the east side of the 1911 train station, accessible from St. Paul Street and the service drive off St. Paul Street.

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