Fifth Regiment Armory Won’t be Transferred to the City as Part of State Center’s Redevelopment

Planning for the redevelopment of Baltimore’s State Center office complex is moving ahead, with a community meeting scheduled for Wednesday night to give area residents a chance to learn about the effort and say what they’d like to see built in place of the aging 1960s-era office buildings that are there now.

But one state-owned building that was a key feature of an earlier redevelopment plan is not expected to change, at least immediately, as part of the latest effort to reimagine State Center.

The Fifth Regiment Armory, a fortress-like structure that dates from 1901, had been targeted for conversion to a commercial anchor for a $1.5 billion mixed-use community proposed by a previous development team, led by a group called Ekistics LLC.

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