Baltimore’s iconic but largely vacant festival market, Harborplace, will be replaced with a $500 million development consisting of two residential towers, offices, shops, restaurants, and expanded public space, under a plan unveiled this week by the company that acquired the waterfront property last summer.
MCB Real Estate of Baltimore is the developer behind the initiative to “reimagine” and expand on the 3.2-acre, city-owned parcel where the visionary developer James Rouse opened Harborplace in 1980.
The design team is led by the Baltimore office of Gensler. Other design team members include 3XN Architects of Copenhagen; BCT Design Group; Sulton Campbell Britt & Associates, a minority-owned firm; Unknown Studio, a landscape architecture and urban design firm; and Biohabitats, an environmental consultant.
