Forum Drone Updates Bemiston Place Progress

Date Posted: April 11, 2023

Posted In: Drone, Projects,

This week Construction Forum drone pilot and photographer Louis Kelly marked progress on Bemiston Place, a $101 million mixed-used development at Central, Maryland, and Bemiston Avenues in Clayton.

Balke Brown Transwestern purchased the parcels of land to build the project from HBE Corporation. They had been assembled by Fred Kummer, the late HBE founder who had planned a project there, but abandoned the concept when he ran into opposition over the proposed destruction of the historic Shanley Building.

The project is being developed by Double Eagle Development, whose partners are Steve Brown, CEO of Balke Brown Transwestern, and Mike Donovan, Balke Brown COO. President of Double Eagle is Andrew Juriss, who previously was a senior director of multi-family for Denver-based Aimco. Prior to that, he had stints in development in Chicago and New York.

The Double Eagle plan incorporates the Shanley Building as a co-working space for residents. It was designed by Hord Coplan and Macht, the Baltimore architects who designed Ballpark Village and One Cardinal Way.

General Contractor is Holland Construction.

The complex will have 237 apartment units and 268,535 square feet of floor space, including a parking garage built below the apartments that won’t be visible from the street, with 10,300 square feet of retail and restaurants on the ground floor.

Completion is planned for this year.