Developer Larry Jennings won a final public battle to convert Woodberry’s Tractor Building to apartments when Baltimore’s Planning Commission twice voted 8 to 0 on Thursday to approve the development plans.

The Planning Commission was the last of several city boards the developer needed to satisfy in order to obtain building permits for the conversion, estimated to cost $32 million to $35 million.

Jennings’ group, Valstone Partners, already had received approval from Baltimore’s Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation and the Urban Design and Architecture Advisory Panel.

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