American Brewery redevelopment Published in BaltimoreGrows.com by "Glen" under Canton, Eastside. This was a guest post courtesy of Urban Discoveries Living Blog. Check out all their great content. An ambitious redevelopment of an abandoned landmark. In East Baltimore. During a recession. Sound like a good idea to you? But against all odds, things seem to be working in favor of Columbia-based non-profit Humanim’s redevelopment of the American Brewery Building—the once-abandoned structure should be open for business by this summer... Read the rest of the article at BaltimoreGrows.com
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To learn more about this project, you can also visit the Struever Bros. Eccles and Rouse website [click here].
Listed below are several descriptions and links to Baltimore Sun articles regarding The American Brewery Building that have appeared in the publication since June 2006. These articles, courtesy of the Baltimore Sun, demonstrate the dramatic needs of this community and we encourage you to review each of these stories. Note: The Baltimore Sun website does require visitors to complete a free and quick registration process. If preferred, text-only PDF files are also available here on the Humanim site; however, these to not contain all of the photography and graphs that support each of the individual articles.
Also, available for download at the bottom of this page is our American Brewery Brochure. This provides a short introduction to our organization and the goals established for the completion of this project. If you have questions about Humanim, or The American Brewery project, please contact Cindy Plavier-Truitt, Chief Development Officer, at 410.381.7171 or cplavier@humanim.org.
Splendor Restored [text-only PDF]
As appeared on the front page of the Baltimore Sun!!!
By Jacques Kelly, The Baltimore Sun
Originally Published in the Baltimore Sun on August 18, 2008
Long-neglected American Brewery building becomes a 'symbol of hope' for a blighted city neighborhood. Workers removed scaffolding fro th old American Brwery's towers, revealing a 19th centrury exuberance of restored copper, slate, brick and brownstone....
Brewery project turns a corner [text-only PDF]
As appeared on the front page of the Baltimore Sun!!!
By John Fritze, The Baltimore Sun
Originally Published in the Baltimore Sun on January 12, 2008
With the massive beer tanks removed and the once-exposed rooftops patched and braced, developers of the American Brewery building in East Baltimore are moving forward with a project they hope will spark a revival in the neighborhood. More than two years after the city selected a team to rehabilitate the 121-year-old brewery, on North Gay Street amid a sea of vacant rowhouses, hammers are swinging on the site and developers estimate that they will reopen the building in spring 2009. Humanim Inc., a Columbia-based nonprofit social services agency and the lead developer of the project...
$22.5M for renovation of landmark American Brewery [text-only PDF]
By Robbie Whelan, The Daily Record Business Writer
Originally Published in the Daily Record on January 2, 2008
The owners of the American Brewery complex in East Baltimore have secured $22.5 million to renovate two buildings, totaling 113,000 square feet, in one of the city’s most blighted neighborhoods. Humanim, a Columbia-based nonprofit that provides work force development for the disabled...
Brewery district drawing investors [text-only PDF]
By Eric Siegel, The Baltimore Sun
Originally Published in the Baltimore Sun on January 29, 2007
Hoping to set the stage for the future renewal of one of the city's most distressed areas, officials are moving to acquire about 200 abandoned properties around the historic American Brewery building in a long-neglected corner of East Baltimore. The...
City moves to get 200 properties [text-only PDF]
By Eric Siegel, The Baltimore Sun
Originally Published in the Baltimore Sun on October 18, 2006
Hoping to set the stage for the future renewal of one of the city's most distressed areas, officials are moving to acquire about 200 abandoned properties around the historic American Brewery building in a long-neglected corner of East Baltimore. The...
Grant sought to clear block [text-only PDF]
By Eric Siegel, The Baltimore Sun
Originally Published in the Baltimore Sun on August 5, 2006
One of the most decayed blocks in the deteriorated area around East Baltimore's long-vacant American Brewery appears destined for demolition in the not-too-distant future. If the razing of the 1800 block of N. Durham St., where 40 of the 45 properties are...
Readers speak on the Web [text-only PDF]
Originally Published in the Baltimore Sun on July 16, 2006
Here's what readers have been saying online about The Sun's American Brewery project and what might be done to help the neighborhood: "Take a trip up to Philadelphia and there are neighborhoods that are being revitalized by offering space for artists to...
Finding a Way [text-only PDF]
Originally Published in the Baltimore Sun on July 16, 2006
In recent decades, hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested in Baltimore redevelopment, and those investments - combined with positive economic trends - have sparked a wave of privately financed revitalization in neighborhoods across the city....
In a reporter's view [text-only PDF]
By Eric Siegel, The Baltimore Sun
Originally Published in the Baltimore Sun on July 16, 2006
Last October, I attended a street-side wake on North Bradford Street for a man and a teenager who were shot to death there. I made the visit while reporting for articles about the blocks around the vacant American Brewery building in East Baltimore. The...
Pricing workers out? [text-only PDF]
by Doug Donovan and Ron Hollander
Originally published in the Baltimore Sun on July 11, 2006
The corner of North Calvert Street and Lafayette Avenue provides a stark example of the vast differences in Baltimore's housing market, as a neighborhood once known more for crime has become the center for renovation. A block from rotting and boarded-up...
City woes cry out for regional solutions [text-only PDF]
By Dan Rodricks
Originally published in the Baltimore Sun on July 2, 2006
The story I heard the other day has become familiar: A professor moving his family to Baltimore can't afford to live anywhere near the college that hired him. Over the last five years, I've been asked to provide housing tips for relocating families, both...
Neighborhood 'abandoned' but not ignored [text-only PDF]
By Paul Moore (Public Editor)
Originally published in the Baltimore Sun on July 2, 2006
Last Sunday, The Sun devoted much of its front page and three full inside pages to a detailed examination of life in an East Baltimore neighborhood devastated by the social and economic ills that haunt areas of the city, despite encouraging evidence of...
Building on Fragile Hope [text-only PDF]
By Eric Siegel, The Baltimore Sun
Originally Published in the Baltimore Sun on June 26, 2006
A Neighborhood Abandoned Part 2 Eric Booker was asleep in his grandparents' house in East Baltimore when his grandfather, Frederick Booker, came to him in a dream. "I need you to take care of Granny," the dying old man told him. The next day, Eric visited...
A Neighborhood Abandoned [text-only PDF]
By Eric Siegel, The Baltimore Sun and photos by Karl Merton Ferron
Originally Published in the Baltimore Sun on June 25, 2006
Wearing work boots and carrying flashlights on a spring day last year, a band of architects and developers picked their way through the dim interior of the American Brewery. They looked like archaeologists combing through an ancient ruin, which, in some...
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The American Brewery
Baltimore City, Maryland
Humanim, a non-profit
human services agency,
has launched a project
to renovate
the American Brewery,
in Baltimore City,
which will house
employment programs
and clinical support
services for the residents
of this poverty stricken
community.
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Brewery Project Team
Owner/Developer
Humanim, Inc.
General Contractor
Struever Bros.
Eccles & Rouse, Inc.
Architect
Cho Benn Holback
+ Associates, Inc.
Project Development Manager
Gotham Development
Owner Representative
Synthesis, Inc.
Tax Credit Investors
Bank of America
National Trust for
Historic Preservation
City First Bank
Foundations and
Corporate Contributors
The Harry and Jeanette
Weinberg Foundation
The Abell Foundation
France-Merrick
Foundation
Struever Bros.
Eccles & Rouse, Inc.
Constellation Energy
Maryland Historic Trust
We also thank all of the
individual and private donors
for their generous support of
this valuable project!!! |
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