Baltimore’s Long-vacant Bard Building to be Demolished for Greenspace and Future Redevelopment

The Bard Building, the last remnant of a two-building downtown Baltimore City Community College campus and once a noted architectural feature of the city’s streetscape, will be torn down “to allow for future redevelopment of the property,” under a plan approved on Wednesday by Maryland’s Board of Public Works.

The spending board granted a request to spend $4.2 million so the Berg Corporation can raze the vacant building at 600 East Lombard Street and landscape the property for use as a green space while college leaders come up with a new vision for the property.

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