The city has ordered a New York-based property firm to pay a $463,772 in penalties after a contractor’s surprising unauthorized demolition of Upton’s historic former St. Vincent’s Orphan Asylum building.
Baltimore Department of Housing and Community Development spokeswoman Tania Baker said the penalty from her department “has already been applied to the property for the demolition without proper permits.” The owner, identifiable in state records as 1411 Division Street LLC, “will have to address the permit surcharge” before it can receive any other city permits for work on the site, she said. A stop work order is also in effect.
Housing and Community Development is still investigating the late February teardown, Baker said. They’re not alone. The Maryland Department of the Environment’s Air and Radiation Administration is also “aware of the matter and investigating,” spokesman Jay Apperson wrote in an email.
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