Jan 29 2008
Tallest Building Gets Parking Garage
Baltimore’s tallest building, the Legg Mason building, is getting a new parking garage. Contractors recently broke ground on the new 10 story structure located across the street from the Legg Mason building near the corner of Light and Lombard. Burke’s Restaurant, currently at the location will apparently remain and will supposedly get a face-lift. It appears that the building’s owners are preparing for Legg Mason’s exodus to their new headquarters in Harbor East as a selling point for future tenants. Parking, or should I say lack thereof, was a major reason for Legg’s departure.
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i was pretty suprises when that building started going down. i asked some contacts at whiting-turner last week what the project was, and they verified that it was a parking garage. as soon as you have any imagery of the proposed garage, please post it - i hope it will be a design consistent with the scale and detailing of that part of the city.
It’s amazing the built so little parking associated with 100 Light Street (Legg Mason Building). Perhaps engineering limitations prohibited them from going more than a couple stories below the building.
well the building was designed by architect vlastimil koubek and built 1970-73. which means it was designed probably 1969-70. i am a bit familiar with koubek’s work ~ he designed several federal buildings in d.c. perhaps his assumptions about public transportation based on his work in d.c. was transcribed over to baltimore, which we know is NOT an accurate assumption.
Interesting. Some other issues: it’s built on landfill; builders may not have wanted to invest so much in the “tub” to keep the harbor out; also, at that time (before the rest of the area was built up) there was a fair amount of surface parking nearby; and, lastly, these days it’s not unheard of for clerical staff to drive their own car to work–40 years ago, not so much.