The Condo Conversion
The building industry associations in suburban Maryland and Northern Virginia choose the year's best new homes
By Jeff Marcus
Home & Design Volume
We can't say exactly when it happened, but the Washington/ Baltimore region has become first-class condo country. Luxurious new condominium communities are transforming the way homeowners live from Baltimore to Bethesda to Ballston. MORE>
CONDOMINIUM LUXURY
Top New Locations
3 / 4.2008
Home & Design Volume 10 / Number 2
Offering the most unique exterior architecture of any condominium in the Washington/Baltimore region isn't enough. Boasting the best views, bar none, of Baltimore's bustling Inner Harbor and beyond isn't enough. Featuring stunning luxurious homes wrapped in glass to maximize those views isn't enough. Silo Point also has the most intriguing history of almost any regional residential project in recent memory. MORE>
Sky High
By Amanda Kolson Hurley
3.2008
Urbanite #45
One day almost five years ago, developer Patrick Turner and architect Chris Pfaeffle went for a walk in Locust Point, scouting for real estate opportunities in the rapidly gentrifying South Baltimore neighborhood. Turner looked up at a 1920s-era grain elevator, three hundred feet tall, and saw their destiny. "I said, 'Chris, there's the project,'" Turner recalls. "He immediately agreed. It has magnificent bones to it." MORE>
Baltimore's winning football team
By Dan Rodricks
12.9.2007
The Baltimore Sun
The Pop Warner team from Westport won their Super Bowl in Florida on Friday. The Westport Patriots, 24 Westport and Mt. Winans boys between the ages of 11 and 14, beat the Suncoast Bucs, 27-8,Êin at the Disney sports complex in Orlando, winning the Pop Warner Super Bowl, Midget division. MORE>
CSX Bridge Eyed for Gwynns Falls Trail Extension
11.2007
Trust for Public Land
In the two years since its grand opening celebration, the Gwynns Falls Trail in Baltimore has seen countless hikers and bikers traversing the area, taking in the multifarious sights and sounds of Charm City: history and lush greenery at Winans Meadow and Leon Day Park, the inner-city vibrance of Lower Gwynns Falls Park, and Baltimore's proud industrial past along Bush and Bayard streets. MORE>
Developer requests public financing for $1.4 billion waterfront project
By Andrew Cannarsa
10.18.2007
The Baltimore Examiner
Westport Waterfront plans to turn a 54-acre industrial area into a $1.4 billion residential, retail and office development along the Patapsco RiverÕs Middle Branch. MORE>
Quick and dirty tour
By Lorraine Mirabella
10.5.2007
The Baltimore Sun
It certainly wasn't the Ride the Ducks tour. MORE>
2 Middle Branch projects advance in city process
By Lorraine Mirabella
9.14.2007
The Baltimore Sun
Two projects to transform large swaths on both sides of Baltimore's Middle Branch waterfront are moving forward, including a sports-themed office and recreation park south of M&T Bank Stadium and a mix of new homes, shops, offices and a hotel along WestportÕs formerly industrial shore. MORE>
Aquarium scales back expansion
Developer buys 11 acres of aquarium's land in S. Baltimore
By Daniel J. Sernovitz
9.07.2007
Baltimore Business Journal
The National Aquarium in Baltimore is curbing its plans to build a new waterfront campus in South Baltimore and has sold 11 of the 19 acres it bought for the new center to local developer Patrick Turner for $1.5 million, a spokeswoman for the aquarium said. MORE>
CALC project advances
Turner gets six acres from aquarium
By Steven Overly
8.08.2007
Daily Record Business Writer
The city's Board of Estimates relinquished restrictions on more than six acres of land along the north shore of the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River Wednesday, paving the way for its sale to a developer who plans to build offices at the site. MORE>
BRAC Invasion
Baltimore & Jay Brodie offer Corridor's Housing Solution
By Amrit Dhillon
8.2007
Corridor Inc.
Shooting up over 100 feet in the air and less than a mile from where the national anthem was scribed, a remnant of Baltimore's industrial past is in the midst of a flip. MORE>
"Panel in Baltimore OKs Westport plan"
By Steven Overly
7.7.2007
Daily Record
Plans to redevelop two industrial sites garnered mixed responses from the city's architecture review panel Thursday, as developers and city officials debate the future of Baltimore's historically industrial waterfront. MORE>
City design panel gives preliminary OK to $1.4B Westport development
By Will Skowronski
7.06.2007
Baltimore Business Journal
A 65-story office building, 2,000 condos, and extensive waterfront retail is a sample of what's being planned for a 54-acre development site in Westport. MORE>
City teens get the chance to become crew members
Baltimore Rowing Club scholarship program offers minority students opportunity to excel
By Gadi Dechter
6.24.2007
The Baltimore Sun
About a year ago, Akeem Smith was a 220-pound football player at Cherry Hill's New Era Academy with slipping grades and a knack for getting into fights. MORE>
Westport looks to line up retail
3.27.2007
By Lorraine Mirabella
The Baltimore Sun
Baltimore developer Patrick Turner plans to start construction March 1 in an ambitious plan to develop the formerly industrial shores of the Middle Branch, with the first buildings in the $1.4 billion community - including a 65-story, mixed-use skyscraper - to get under way by 2009. MORE>
Value, urban chic in Federal Hill condo
2.16.2007
The Baltimore Examiner
The former South Baltimore General Hospital, located in the heart of Baltimore’s Federal Hill neighborhood, now houses 67 one- and two- bedroom condos. MORE>
FOR DOWNTOWN, A THRIVING 2006
2.8.2007
Baltimore Sun
Among the projects is the huge mixed-use community planned by developer Patrick Turner in Westport, south of downtown. MORE>
City invites BRAC growth
Officials prepare for the expected influx of jobs and residents
By Eric Siegel
2.07.2007
The Baltimore Sun
Resurfacing key roads. Giving more money to a nonprofit that markets city housing. Creating a "BRAC Stat." MORE>
Smart CEO –No Grainer: Questions for Patrick Turner
1.2007
Baltimore SMART CEO Magazine
Patrick Turner is reserving one of the two penthouses on the top of his SILO POINT project for himself. Why shouldn’t he and his wife get to live in one of the coolest examples going of adaptive re-use (as this form of development is known)? MORE>
PROJECT IS PUTTING HIS VISION TO TEST
12.24.2006
The Baltimore Sun
Turner's significant projects in recent years rethought old Baltimore buildings that seemingly no one wanted, in and around Federal Hill. MORE>
Developer 'optimistic' Silo Point will buck market trend
12.15.2006
Baltimore Business Journal
Despite a nationwide slowdown in the housing market, Baltimore developer Patrick Turner believes the city, and South Baltimore in particular, remains a fertile place for new development. MORE>
Aquarium picks Turner for Westport project
12.2006
The Daily Record
The National Aquarium in Baltimore has chosen Baltimore developer Patrick Turner to spearhead its multimillion dollar expansion along the Patapsco River’s Middle branch, an official there told The Daily Record yesterday. MORE>
Condos Planned for Baltimore Grain Elevator
11.30.2006
Preservation Online
The Archer Midland elevator was still partially operating when Baltimore-based Turner Development bought the 15-acre site in 2003 for $6.5 million. MORE>
Amid new development, a desire for preservation
By Kelly Carson
11.6.2002
The Examiner
New construction, fabulous makeovers and new uses for old buildings. In a historic city - one dotted with unique architecture from different periods marking American taste Ñ the struggle is to save the distinctive faces of buildings while satisfying a hunger for space. MORE>
TRANSFORMING THE OLD INTO THE NEW
11.5.2006
The Baltimore Sun
He [Chris Pfaeffle] and his client, developer Patrick Turner, who bought the grain elevator from ADM in 2003 for $6.5 million, envision modern lofts in the sky for the ultra hip. MORE>
TIER FIRSTCHOICE
10.2006
Multifamily Trends Magazine
Baltimore developer Patrick Turner is developing the former Archer Daniels Midland grain elevator and storage silos as the Silo Point project on the Baltimore Harbor waterfront in the Locust Point neighborhood, a former blue collar area next to historic Fort McHenry and facing downtown Baltimore and the Inner Harbor. MORE>
$1.4 billion development slated for Westport
8.16.2006
The Baltimore Examiner
After 15 months of planning, Patrick Turner, president of Turner Development Group, has unveiled plans for a $1.4 billion development that will be located on Baltimore City's last large parcel of developable waterfront property. MORE>
Developer reveals plans for Wesport
8.12.2006
The Baltimore Sun
Developer Patrick Turner hopes to start next summer on a project that in six to seven years would reverse the blight in a once solidly blue-collar neighborhood. The tower would be the tallest building in the city, but would be among a wave of skyscrapers that have recently been proposed. MORE>
Baltimore condo market could buck national trend
8.9.2006
The Baltimore Examiner
"It was one project and it was an older building," said Patrick Turner, president of Turner Development Group, which is currently developing the Silo Point Condominium project in Locust Point. "You can't judge the entire market based on one building." MORE>
Massive city project is taking shape
8.2006
The Daily Record
As if his plan to turn an industrial waterfront in Southwest Baltimore into a “second downtown” was not grand enough, developer Patrick Turner thinks a new velodrome would be the perfect capstone to that project. MORE>
Gap gives city its chance
7.25.2006
The Baltimore Sun
Developer Patrick Turner has big plans for nearly 40 acres in Baltimore's struggling Westport neighborhood…as in more than 5 million square feet of waterfront offices, retail, entertainment and urban living…as in 1,800 homes, twice what Westport has now. MORE>
Middle Branch deal is sealed
6.15.2006
The Baltimore Sun
Talk of Patrick Turner of Henrietta Development Corp. becoming an investor in the center might have partly prompted renewed interest in the deal. MORE>
Scenic Views, From Atop a Silo
5.20.2006
The Washington Post
Turner says he believes the one-of-a-kind venture will be hard to resist. "The views are incredible, it's right off I-95, and you're just a few minutes from downtown Baltimore." MORE>
Turner site in cleanup mode
5.19.2006
Baltimore Business Journal
It's no secret that local developer Pat Turner wants to build homes on aging, industrial land in the Westport section of Baltimore City. MORE>
Builder of Locust Point project shows interest in `Harbor West'
5.3.2006
The Baltimore Sun
The townhouse community near Fort McHenry in Locust Point forms the gateway to Silo Point, a $400 million conversion of a 1920s- vintage grain terminal into 221 luxury waterfront condos that is also under development by Turner. MORE>
Waterfront condos pitched to local, Washington buyers
4.11.2006
The Baltimore Examiner
“What I see going on here is a lot of empty nesters coming back to the urban market… it’s a strong market all over the country,” said Patrick Turner; principal of Henrietta Development Corp, the firm heading up the project. MORE>
Harbor Next
1.25.2006
City Paper
Drawings for the Westport site are “in the works right now,” Turner says, but he confirms that the project will involve a combination of housing, retail, and office space. MORE>
The Renovator
11.2005
Baltimore Magazine
Impress by Pfaeffle’s approach, that client – real estate mogul Pat Turner – remains one of the firm’s best clients. MORE>
Silo Point could lose its silos
9.12.2005
The Baltimore Sun
The 297-foot-tall grain elevator… is targeted for conversion to upscale residences as part of a $400 million "planned unit development" that also includes 121 luxury townhouses, commercial space and parking for more than 500 cars. MORE>
Neighborhood Makeover
6.17.2005
The Daily Record, Volume 116, Num 213
From the dust of the shore's mechanical past, Turner wants to build a vibrant community not entirely unlike Inner Harbor East, whose high-rise office buildings can be seen far-off across the water from the Middle Branch. MORE>
Westport renewal rules are readied
5.26.2005
The Baltimore Sun
Planners have been working with Patrick Turner, which bought the 16-acre site of the shuttered Carr-Lowrey glass manufacturing plant on Kloman Street and plans a mixed-use development. MORE>
A Neighborhood by Any Other Name
3.2005
Urbanite Magazine
On eighteen acres along the river’s western shore, the former factory of the Carr-Lowrey Glass Company will be torn down and replaced with a residential and commercial development, says developer Patrick Turner. MORE>
Developers look to build next Inner Harbor
11.12.2004
The Daily Record, Vol. 116, Num 034
“He’s a responsible developer waiting to see what direction we want to go in,” Otis Rolley, the city’s planning director, said of Pat Turner. “I’m looking forward to his final ideas in terms of development…” MORE>
Developer wants derelict city plant, but zoning is obstacle
8.27.2004
Baltimore Business Journal
Besides the ongoing granary redevelopment, Turner recently completed the conversion of a school into condominiums at West and William streets in Federal Hill. He is undertaking another similar endeavor with a former convalescent center on Light Street, also in Federal Hill. MORE>
Officials' plan for Locust Point could increase development
5.10.2004
The Baltimore Sun
City planners unveiled a master plan for Locust Point recently that would allow the number of residences on the South Baltimore peninsula to increase by about 75 percent. MORE>
Locust Point transformed
5.5.2004
The Baltimore Sun
The city Planning Commission is to consider this month a City Council rezoning bill that would allow another development group to turn the site of a prominent landmark, an abandoned grain elevator, into a community of townhouses, offices and a hotel or condominiums. MORE>
Locust Point project gets OK
5.21.2004
The Baltimore Sun
Silo Point would have about 500 condominiums selling for an average of $500,000. The bulk would be in the grain elevator, but 121 new townhouses also would be constructed. He estimated that 350 of the buyers would come from outside Baltimore. MORE>
Homes vs. industry on the waterfront
12.14.2003
The Baltimore Sun
Patrick Turner, who's developing the site with Sapperstein, argues that the conversion they have in mind will clearly benefit the city. The real estate and personal property taxes are $150,000 a year now, but redevelopment would push the real estate taxes alone up to $5.5 million, he said. MORE>
As Locust Point gets hot, some are cool to change
12.11.2003
The Baltimore Sun
Foremost among the latest proposals are blueprints to convert the vacant ADM grain elevator into luxury condominiums, offices and a hotel, and to erect 120 townhouses on a barren adjacent lot. MORE>
Field of Schemes
11.2003
City Paper
A Cavalcade of Baltimore Projects, Done and Undone MORE>
Developers outline plans for hotel in grain silo
9.19.2003
Baltimore Business Journal
In August, Turner and his partners took control of the 7.5-acre site that belonged to Decatur, Ill.-based Archer Daniels Midland. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. MORE>
Turner takes control of disputed ADM site
8.29.2003
Baltimore Business Journal
Patrick Turner, principal of Baltimore's Henrietta Corp., and his financial backers have taken control of a Locust Point grain terminal they hope to convert into a mixed-use development. MORE>
Elevator Going Upscale
5.5.2003
The Baltimore Sun
Turner, known for his "edgy" conversions of such buildings as the McHenry Theater and the Southway Bowling Center, thinks the idea will have strong appeal. "This is such a prominent building," he said. MORE>
Nonprofits, developer share benefits of giving
3.8.2003
The Daily Record
Turner — who paid $3 million for the building after beating out nearly a dozen other developers who plopped down their $100,000 deposits — discovered he had a lot of items to get rid of before he could start rehabilitation of the old South Baltimore Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, built in the 1923 and completely renovated in 1997 by the nursing home owners. MORE>
Spiffy apartments planned for old S. Baltimore General
3.8.2003
The Baltimore Sun
Patrick Turner and partners want to transform the century-old building on Light Street that last housed the Harbour Inn Convalescent Center, closed about two years ago, into housing for professionals who have been flocking to the area in recent years. MORE>
SQUARE FEET: Refitting the pieces
11.2002
The Daily Record
Turner has been bucking convention and slowly transforming the landscape of Federal Hill. MORE>
Market Daze
12.9.2002
The Baltimore Sun
Patrick Turner sure is full of unusual ideas. MORE>
Hip Federal Hill now attracting the techies
3.29.2002
Baltimore Business Journal
Federal Hill isn't just for historic landmarks and crowded bars. MORE>
Last Picture Show
8.24.2002
Daily Record
Developer Patrick Turner craned his neck as he pointed to the 30-foot dome of the McHenry Theater and then turned quickly toward a barren wall. MORE>