Restaurateur Spike Gjerde’s new Inner Harbor venture, the Sandlot, cleared a key development hurdle this spring when Baltimore’s Planning Commission approved the design.

Gjerde and business partner Corey Polyoka of Foodshed are working with Beatty Development Group, Harbor Point’s master developer, to create a family-oriented recreation and dining area along the water’s edge at Harbor Point, the 27-acre renewal area between Harbor East and Fells Point.

Beatty Harvey Coco, one of the architects for Kevin Plank’s Sagamore Pendry Baltimore hotel, is the planner for the Sandlot, which will occupy about a quarter of an acre next to a large parking lot on the site. Part of the land has been designated for use as a “waterfront beach” – an idea former Mayor William Donald Schaefer had for the Inner Harbor in the 1970s.

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