Sunday, November 24, 2013

The Mount Vernon Development Boom Continues with More Residential Projects and a Luxe Hotel

WRH Property Holdings is converting this handsome building at the corner of Charles and Mulberry into 18 apartments.   Located at 344 N. Charles Street, the building sits in the midst of a diverse selection of restaurants (residents can dine on Thai, Indian, Turkish, Irish, great deli food, unique pizzas, and classic American fare without leaving the block) and is on the Charm City Circulator's Purple Route, which will give future residents easy access to Federal Hill and Penn Station.
At the south end of the same block, PMC Property Group is transforming this lovely building into 92 rental homes and 4,000 SF of retail/restaurant space.  The details on the facade of this building, particularly the floor-to-ceiling windows (or are they doors?) on the second level, have elegance to spare.  In addition to the excellent restaurant selection and ready access to the Charm City Circulator, residents of this building also benefit from its location across the street from the Fresh and Greens grocery store. Part of the joy of City living is picking up dinner on the way home from work, whether take-out or ingredients for a home made meal. 
This dog is going to have a lot of new neighbors.  Developer Daejen is creating 56 new apartments in this c. 1912 gem at 11 E. Chase Street.  Residents of the Algonquin Apartments will benefit from a location convenient to Penn Station, Peabody Conservatory, and the cultural institutions and restaurants of Mount Vernon, not to mention a short walk to downtown Baltimore.
With its 18 fire-lit suites ensconced in a magnificent mansion originally constructed as a private home,The Ivy Hotel will most certainly raise the bar for boutique hotels in Baltimore.  I took this picture a couple of months ago, and while it is hard to see the building underneath all of the scaffolding, I think the extent of scaffolding speaks volumes about the quality of the restoration.  The Ivy will open its doors in 2014. 

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