Project Description
City Arts Apartments
ReBUILD co-developed the first phase of City Arts with Homes for America and Jubilee Baltimore, creating the 69-unit City Arts Apartments. This project redeveloped part of a vacant block into quality affordable housing designed to serve local artists in the Greenmount West neighborhood.
The building features studio, one-, and two-bedroom units with high ceilings, large windows, and hardwood floors. Select units also include a “slop sink” to accommodate a live-work arrangement for artists. In addition, the building includes a ground level gallery and performance space open to the public. The building is adjacent to the new Open Works facility.
The Apartments are part of ReBUILD’s $17 million investment in the larger City Arts I development in Greenmount West. The second phase of the development includes 9 energy-efficient, two-bedroom rental homes, which are part of the City of Baltimore Commission for Historical & Architectural Preservation program and feature stained glass front door transoms and distinctive iron flower boxes created by artisans. A third phase, City Arts Townhomes, includes 7 new for-sale single-family homes featuring artists’ lofts and top floor decks.
- UNITS: 69 rental Apartments, a combination of studio, one-, and two-bedrooms
- TYPE: New Construction
- COMPLETED: 2010
- DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS: Homes for America, Jubilee Baltimore
- AWARD: National Affordable Housing Management Association’s 2011 Vanguard Award for New Construction Small Property
Other Project Portfolios:
City Arts II Historic Rehabs
Seven single-family homes in Greenmount West, Baltimore.
City Arts Historic Townhomes
Rehabilitated block of historic rentals in Greenmount West, Baltimore.
City Arts New Townhomes
New modular homes in Greenmount West, Baltimore.
Oliver/Broadway East Scattered Site
A multi-phase initiative that reclaimed and rehabilitated over 150 vacant lots and properties in Oliver, Baltimore.
City Arts Apartments
Artist-oriented new affordable multifamily project in Greenmount West, Baltimore.