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Dionne Curbeam, then a young Baltimore City public schoolteacher, brimmed with pride and anticipation at the thought of owning her own Belair-Edison row house. “Before I moved in,” she said, “I rode by that house every day just to look at it.” Seventeen years later, Dr. Curbeam’s home reflects all that she treasures, from her second-floor office to her “woman cave” in the basement, decked out in Baltimore Ravens purple. “I am just truly blessed to be able to have a place to call my own,” said Dr. Curbeam, now interim vice-president and chief information officer at Coppin State University. Her ..read more

Former American Visionary Art Museum director Jenenne Whitfield has joined MCB Real Estate, the owner of Harborplace, in the newly created position of Harborplace Director of Experience. In an announcement on Tuesday, MCB noted that executives learned from recent community engagement sessions that the general public believes art, culture and experience are important components of a reimagined Harborplace. It said Whitfield’s role will be to “help reimagine the firsthand experience at a new Harborplace” and that the company is looking to her to “infuse Harborplace with innovative and inclusive ..read more

3908 N. Charles Street, Unit 1303. Hot House: A Classical Georgian House in the Sky! 2 Beds/3 Baths. 3,742 square feet. Asking price: $2.5 million. What: The Warrington is Baltimore’s most beautiful and classic apartment building, and this apartment is at the very tip-top of that in terms of location, elegance, and uniqueness. When you look at the drone photos of it, the apartment looks like a classical Georgian mansion landed on the top of an elegant brick apartment building. As the neighborhood of Guilford was being built, the architects, Wyatt & Nolting understood that any building the ..read more

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Local developers won preliminary approval on Tuesday to convert a dormant church on Roland Avenue to a restaurant with outdoor seating and are now looking for a tenant to fill the space. Baltimore’s zoning board voted 4 to 0 to allow 3900 Roland Avenue LLC, headed by Josh Mente and Jesse Vann, to create a restaurant inside the former St. Mary’s Protestant Episcopal Church at 3900 Roland Avenue. Samantha Claassen, the owner of Golden West Café at 1105 West 36th Street, had expressed interest in moving to the church but decided to keep the café at its current location.  Mente said he ..read more

A former oyster cannery at 337 S. Fremont Ave. in Ridgely’s Delight is slated to become eight apartments. Developers Ben Garner and Neil Brown are undertaking the project in the approximately 8,500 sq. ft. building that dates back to 1920. The building, which looks out to MLK Blvd. from Fremont St., has been vacant for several decades. Garner noted that previous efforts to renovate the building have not come to fruition. The building was recently offered at auction and while Garner and Brown were not ready to make a bid at the time of the auction, they were able to negotiate a deal in the wee ..read more

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MCB Real Estate, the developer of Harborplace in Baltimore, announced on Thursday that it will lead the development of VIVA White Oak, a mixed use project planned for a 280-acre site in eastern Montgomery County, Maryland. The land, near US 29 and Cherry Hill Road, is next to the U. S. Food and Drug Administration headquarters and near the Adventist HealthCare White Oak Medical Center. It’s also close to the University of Maryland’s College Park campus, the Interstate 95 corridor and BWI Thurgood Marshall International Airport. County officials have approved it for more than 12 million s ..read more

Developer Chukuemeka “Chukes” Okoro on Tuesday cleared a key hurdle in his quest to build 48 market-rate apartments on the west side of downtown Baltimore, when his plan received preliminary approval from the city’s Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation (CHAP).  The project is a seven-story building at the northeast corner of West Lexington Street and Park Avenue, in the city’s Five & Dime Historic District. Okoro is the founder of Okoro Development, and his plan calls for six floors of apartments above a first level containing about 3,000 square feet of commercial ..read more