Work Begins on $51M Broadway Overlook Residence

BALTIMORE-Construction of Broadway Overlook, a $51-million, 166-unit mixed-income housing project named for its spectacular views of the Baltimore Skyline, gets under way with a recent groundbreaking ceremony. Local developer Landex Corp. is heading up construction of the public housing complex, which is being partially funded by a federal Housing and Urban Development Hope VI grant of $2.3 million for demolition and an additional $21.3 million for revitalization.

The multi-structure residential development will sprout up on Broadway and Fayette streets in place of the 30-year-old Broadway Homes complex that was demolished two years ago down the road at Broadway and Orleans streets. The location of the new complex will sit on land formerly owned by neighboring Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore traded the old housing project parcel for the Johns Hopkins land, known as the old Church Home Hospital site. Hopkins will eventually erect office and parking space on its space.