HUD Grants $9 Mil to Renovate 1.25-Mil-SF Warehouse

BALTIMORE-A historic but abandoned Montgomery Ward warehouse in west Baltimore will be reborn as a state-of-the-art commercial office complex with the help of a federal grant. It will also become the new home of a Maryland state government agency.

The Maryland Department of the Environment just signed a 10-year lease for 262,300 sf at the Montgomery Park Business Center last week. The department headquarters and 900 employees will relocate from Point Breeze Business Center in southeast Baltimore in November 2001.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently awarded $9 million to the City of Baltimore to renovate the art-deco warehouse at 1000 S. Monroe St. into the planned Montgomery Park Business Center. It is the largest single brownfields assistance project that HUD has undertaken.