221-Unit Centerpoint Apartment Tower Tops Out

BALTIMORE-Developers of Centerpoint, a sprawling mixed-use development currently in the works, have topped out a residential portion of the $80-million project, edging ever more close to the complex’s scheduled completion date next summer. “It’s a development project that will provide residential, retail, parking and a restaurant right in the middle of downtown,” Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley’s spokesperson Tony White told GlobeSt.com following the June 2002 groundbreaking for the development. The joint venture behind the project, Centerpoint Development LLC, consists of developer Harold A. Dawson Co. and Bank of America, which is financing the endeavor.

Centerpoint covers an entire city block encompassed by Howard, Eutaw, Baltimore and Fayette streets in the city’s West Side. When work wraps up on the development about a year from now, Centerpoint will feature, among other things, the recently topped out 17-story, 221-unit apartment tower. This building represents nearly two-thirds of the 392 residential rental units destined to grace the project, and leaves the total amount of work completed for the entire development at 30%. “The Centerpoint development will stimulate growth on Baltimore’s West Side,” says Harold A. Dawson Co. chairman and CEO Harold A. Dawson Sr. “This new apartment tower is the spectacular centerpiece of this new development that will attract new residents and businesses of Baltimore’s West Side to this cityscape, and these residents and businesses will bring new life and vitality to the surrounding community.”