Project Description
The City Arts 2 building is built on infill sites and funded primarily through the State’s nine percent low-income housing tax credit program, completed construction in December 2016. City Arts 2 is an 80,449 sq. ft, 4-story, 60 unit development located on a 1.17-acre site in Baltimore, Maryland. The building is designed as a 4-story building with a part of the building on a podium and a part of the building on grade connected with a bridge allowing the upper floors to span an existing alley thus maintaining connectivity and vehicular access. The property, which was once a vacant lot along Greenmount Avenue, now has a mix of residences and amenity spaces facing the street putting more eyes on the street and energizing the neighborhood. The development includes an apartment mix designed to best meet the demand of the users by incorporating studios, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom residential apartments. Situated less than a half mile east of Baltimore’s Penn Station and a quarter mile south of major bus line hub at Greenmount and North Avenues, the building is located along a bus transit route and has a storage room large enough to provide bike storage for all residents in the building. The building also had a dance studio which has fully sprung professional wood floors and is opened up to local schools for their use. It also includes a multipurpose room with computer stations, kitchenette, and seating which includes a mix of couches, reclaimed wood table, and chairs and height top counters and stools facing the main street along its storefront windows. The upper floors accommodate large multipurpose co-working studio spaces with slop sinks, a fitness room, storage spaces with storage cages and resident units.