The development group seeking permission to tear down the old Martick’s Restaurant Francais building came away empty-handed yesterday after skeptical preservation board members told it to return with a plan to save some or all of the pre-Civil War structure or provide better proof that doing so would be “economically infeasible.”
“I would like to challenge the architects and the design team and the developers to make it work,” said Elizabeth Nix, a member of CHAP (Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation).
“Get those numbers working! Use the grants! Be a hero in the community and in Baltimore!” Nix told Christopher H. Janian, who wants to include the 214 West Mulberry Street parcel in his group’s $30 million restaurant, retail and apartment project.
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