75,000 square foot McHenry Row III expected to be delivered this fall
Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. has expanded its lease with 28 Walker Development to 5459 square feet of space and intends to move into McHenry Row III, a five-story, 75,000 square foot Class “A” commercial office that is currently under construction. The company, which has occupied 1215 E. Fort Avenue (known as “The Banner Building”) since 2015, plans to hire additional employees and enlarge its team to approximately twenty engineering professionals to time with its relocation in late fall 2018. Joe Nolan and David Fritz of NAI KLNB, the exclusive leasing representative for McHenry Row, represented the landlord in this transaction. The tenant was represented by Kris Knapstein of Savills Studley in Phoenix, Arizona.
“Our employees enjoy the walkable retail amenities including the grocery store and different restaurants, and many of them walk, bike or take the boat to work every day,” explained Jon Kraft, an Associate with Kimley-Horn and Associates and the executive in charge of the Baltimore office which was established in 2014. “Everyone considers Locust Point extremely safe and, for those that drive to work, the parking is free. With direct access to Interstate 95, it enables us to visit our other offices up and down the East Coast, and for them to visit us as well. As a former Locust Point resident myself, the total environment is stimulating with its constant activity.”
The international engineering company, which operates 83 offices and employs more than 3000 people, joins accounting firm Gross Mendelsohn & Associates which leased 24,300 square feet of space in the five-story brick and glass exterior designed by Warehaus, the York, Pennsylvania-based architectural company with an office in Baltimore. Kimley-Horn will occupy a portion of the first floor, which consists of approximately 13,000 square feet of space. Floors two through five offer 15,600 square foot floorplates. Located at 1265 E. Fort Avenue, McHenry Row III is positioned directly adjacent to a 128-room Marriott Courtyard which is also under construction, as well as an existing structured parking garage that can accommodate more than 600 vehicles.
“McHenry Row III represents the continuation of our development plan that has reshaped the Locust Point section of Baltimore City with a compact, full-contained and walkable mixed-use project that addresses the needs of employees, residents and retailers,” stated Mark Sapperstein of 28 Walker Development. “The recent addition of Porter Street Apartments, with 223 multifamily units, functions as the centerpiece of McHenry Row, using architectural elements that meld the various brick, glass and steel exterior materials that are utilized throughout the project.”
Kimley-Horn and Associates is engaged with numerous high-profile projects throughout the Baltimore metropolitan area, including McHenry Row II and III, Porter Street Apartments, Stadium Square as well as working with Under Armour.
In late 2016, Comcast Corporation signed a lease within McHenry Row for more than 28,000 square feet of space, and relocated its operations from the White Marsh section of Baltimore County to Baltimore City. The 20-acre mixed-use projectcurrentlycontains nearly 500 apartment units, 300,000 square feet of commercial office space, and more than 110,000 square feet of retail spaceincluding a Harris Teeter grocery store and complementary restaurants such as Iron Rooster and Samos Greek Island Grill. Diamondback Brewing Company also operates a brewery and taproom on site. The site also includes three parking garages that can accommodate more than 1,500 vehicles.
Additional McHenry Row office tenants include Under Armour, Gilbane Construction, Maryland Auto Insurance Fund, Martin-Lauer Associates, Mindgrub, Videology, GKV and the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults.
“Locust Point and Federal Hill comprise a significant portion of the millennial workforce, and companies are attracted to placing their operations where their employees live,” explained Joe Nolan, Principal of NAI KLNB. “McHenry Row continues to provide significant advantages to recruit and retain employees for forward-thinking organizations.”
Kimley-Horn is a 3,000-person firm with more than 80 offices nationwide. It has been named 11 times as one of FORTUNE’s 100 Best Companies to Work For and is ranked among the top 50 design firms in the nation by Engineering News-Record. Kimley-Horn provides planning and design consulting services related to transportation, aviation, the environment, land development, transit, urban planning/landscape architecture, and water resources. For more information, visit www.kimley-horn.com
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