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Request for Expression of Interest Redevelopment of 2100 Guilford Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland Department of General Services
The Maryland Department of General Services (DGS) is seeking an Expression of Interest (EOI) from experienced firms qualified to lead the redevelopment of the property located at 2100 Guilford Avenue in Baltimore City. The EOI is the first step in a multi-step process to select a developer for the 2100 Guilford Avenue site. DGS intends to invite qualified respondents to the EOI to respond to a Request for Information (RFI) if necessary. The RFI will serve as the basis for establishing a shortlist of firms that will be invited to respond to a Request for Proposal (RFP). If no RFI is necessary, qualified firms will be invited to respond to an RFP. The property is owned by the State of Maryland and managed by the Department of General Services. Located at 2100 Guilford Avenue, the property is a 66,000 square foot parcel consisting of one city block with an alleyway, improved by a 4 story office building constructed in or about 1928, along with outbuildings and parking. There is approximately 60,422 square feet of useable structured space. The property is zoned OR, and is in a Priority Funding Area. It is anticipated that the building will be vacated by or before the Spring of 2020. The parcel for redevelopment is the entire parcel, including all buildings. The State of Maryland is seeking expressions of interest to redevelop the parcel for uses consistent with the zoning, neighborhood needs and makeup, which are economically feasible, environmentally sound, and will aid in revitalization of the neighborhood. Public/private partnerships or partnerships among several entities are encouraged. Expressions of interest that include use of ground leases are acceptable. Expressions of interest shall be guided by the following criteria for redevelopment:
Redevelopment of the existing structures, or portions thereof, where possible and feasible
Uses permitted under Baltimore City OR zoning
Adaptive reuse and mixed use of buildings that may enhance public goals and add to the vibrancy of the neighborhood: housing for seniors or young singles or young families; retail consistent with needs of the surrounding neighborhoods; artist studios, galleries or maker spaces; office space; community center focused on the needs of neighborhood youth, including athletic or fitness uses, learning and entrepreneurship; or other uses consistent with the revitalization of the neighborhood
Economic return to the community from the property, through jobs, stimulus to the local economy, taxes to the City and State, should be demonstrated.
Respondent will be responsible for researching parking regulations associated with respondent’s proposed use for the property and ensuring compliance.
Plan for rehabilitation of historic structures or potential mitigation
The site has access to the following modes of transportation:
Highway/major thoroughfare via (1) North Avenue which provides direct access to the Station North District and Maryland College Institute of Art, (2) I-83 which provides north-south access to downtown, business/population centers north, and (3) I-695 which loops the city.
Local Buses CityLink, LightRailLink, Charm City Circulator (Purple Bus)
Light Rail and Subway via stations located at State Center
Train via Penn Station to the southwest which provides inter-city rail connections including all of the Penn Line trains to Washington, DC.
Respondents shall acquaint themselves with the information contained in the Maryland Historic Trust Determination of Eligibility for inclusion on the National Historic Trust. The site is the home of the original Maryland Motor Vehicle Commission Office, and has historic significance in the origins of the Maryland State Police. The DOE report can be found at https://mht.maryland.gov/secure/Medusa/PDF/BaltimoreCity/B-5320.pdf. Information about tax credits can be found at https://mht.maryland.gov/taxCredits.shtml. The Maryland Historic Trust has staff available to discuss the historic implications of the site, and give guidance on available tax credits and incentives. For more information, respondents should contact the Maryland Historical Trust at 410-697-9591 or mht.maryland.gov. Information regarding tax credits can be found at: Competitive Commercial: https://mht.maryland.gov/taxcredits_competitive_commercial.shtml Federal: https://www.nps.gov/tps/tax-incentives.htm (use the 'Tax Incentives' tab at the top of the page to navigate through the program information) The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (DCHD) Revitalization Program administers several State programs that provide financial assistance to redevelop properties such as the subject property. https://dhcd.maryland.gov/Communities/Pages/StateRevitalizationPrograms/default.aspx Respondents should familiarize themselves with the Reinvest Maryland website, https://apps.planning.maryland.gov/reinvestmd/, which has a Toolbox that a prospective developer should review if they are not familiar with the array of potential state and federal funding programs which may be applicable to the redevelopment of the subject property. The Expression of Interest response should include the following:
1. A letter of interest; 2. The name, title, phone number and e-mail address of the respondent’s single
point of contact;
3. A brief narrative highlighting the firm’s qualifications and/or capabilities including relevant experience;
4. A brief narrative describing the firm’s design intent and vision for the redevelopment of the site;
5. A brief narrative discussing how the firm will plan for preservation of historic structures if structures cannot be utilized.
A site tour will be held on Monday, December 2, 2019 at 9:30 am, followed by a question-and-answer session at the offices of Central Baltimore Partnership, 25 E. 20th Street, Large Conference Room, Baltimore, MD 21218. Interested firms should RSVP to Cat Mateer by email, [email protected] no later than November 26, 2019 at noon.
Submit one (1) electronic copy on compact disk or USB flash drive and six (6) bound copies on 8 ½” x 11” paper, with site plans, diagrams and renderings and other visual representations not to exceed 11’ x 17’, packaged and labeled “2100 Guilford Avenue Redevelopment – Expression of Interest – Attn: Wendy Scott-Napier, Assistant Secretary, Office of Real Estate” to the address listed below no later than January 6, 2020. All documents should include the ROEI name, the ROEI number, the respondent’s company name and the contact name and title.
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Submit your response electronically as follows: Submit an MS Word document or searchable Adobe PDF file that is named “ROEI CM 12-19 Response Respondent Name” according to the criteria above. All documents should include the ROEI name, the ROEI number, the respondent’s company name and the contact name and title. The response should be emailed to: [email protected] Questions concerning this solicitation are to be submitted to: [email protected]
MARYLAND HISTORICAL TRUST NR Eligible: yesDETERMINATION 0F ELIGIBILITY FORM
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Property Name: Maryland Motor vehicle commission offices
Address: 2100 Guilford Avenue
City: Baltimore
USGS Quadrangle(s): Baltimore East
Zipcode: 21218
Inventory Number: 8-5320
Historic district: yes
County: Baltimore city
Property owner: State of Maryland
Tax Map parcel Number(s): 0017
Project:
Xno
Tax Account ID Number: 3812017
TaxMapNumber: 0012
Agency: Maryland Department of General services
Agency prepared By: Applied Archaeology & History Assoc. Inc
Preparer's Name : David Berg
Documentation is presented in :
Date prepared: 3/8/2019
Preparer's Eligibility Recommendation: X Eligibility recommended Eligibility not recommended
Criteria: X A X B X C D Considerations: A 8 C D E F G
Complete if the property is a contributing or non-contributing resource to a NR district/property :
Name of the District/Property:
Inventory Number: Eligible: yes
Site visit by MHT staff yes X no Name:
Listed: yes
Date:
Description of property and Justification: rp/ease a//crcA mop a#dprfeo/a/
Statement of Significance:
The former Maryland Motor Vehicle Commission Offices at 2100 Guilford Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland was the first dedicatedhome of the fast growing Maryland agency during the early days of the automobile age. It holds significance at the state level forits role in the early history of the automobile age and the development of the Maryland Department of Transportation's MotorVehicle Administration as well as the early history of the Maryland State Police. The building is also associated with EdwinAustin Baughman, commissioner of the Maryland Motor Vehicle Commission during its formative years and also firstcommissioner of the new State Police which originated within the Motor Vehicle Commission. The main building is alsosignificant for its architecture as an intact example of the Stripped Classicism Style in Maryland government buildings. Anaddition to the west side of the building completed in 2007 does not materially detract from the building's design, materials andworkmanship. Although modem in style, it continues both the lines of the water table and roof as well as utilizing compatiblematerials in strategic areas. The addition is not highly visible from major views of the historic building's fapade and removal ofthis addition could be accomplished in such a way as to leave the essential elements of the original building intact. The secondary
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Eligibility recommended Li Eligibility not recommended
Criteria: XA 2iB >_C D Considerations: A 8 C D E F G
MHT Comments:
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garage/office building at the west portion of the property is not considered a contributing resource due to loss of integrity ofmaterials. The Maryland Motor Vehicle Commission Offices at 2100 Guilford Avenue retains integrity of materials, design,workmanship, setting, location, feeling and association.
Historic Context:
The Maryland Motor Vehicle Commission was formed in 1910 from the office of the Maryland Secretary of State. In 1916, EdwinAustin Baughman, who served as the Commissioner for 19 years, operated his staff out of three rooms within the Garrett buildingat 221 E. Redwood Street. By the mid-1920s, the eight employees of the Commission had outgrown their offices in the Garrettbuilding due to the volume of automobiles and increasing complexity of administration of the new mode of transportation (TheNews Frederick MD, August I,1946 p.I,11).
The lot encompassing the two buildings at 2100 Guilford Avenue, currently home to the Maryland Department of Public Safetyand Correctional Services Home Detention Unit was formerly occupied by the Home for Incurables building opened in 1884. In1926, the trustees of the home offered the site to the State of Maryland for the sum of $60,000 for the new Motor VehicleCommissioner's office (The Evening Sun, September 28,1926 p.44).
The architect of the new building was William Gordon Beecher of philadelphia, who maintained an office at 12 E. Pleasant Streetin Baltimore. Beecher had previously been involved in the development of Roland Park. The consulting engineer was James Poseyof Baltimore. A sum of $225,000 was appropriated for the new building (The Evening Sun, January 6,1928 p.3). In October of1927, the Baltimore Evening Sun published a rendering of the proposed new building which was a two and three-story, stone 1-shaped building. On October 12, 1928 the paper reported that files were being moved into the office as the workers finished theinterior (The Evening Sun, October 27,1927 p. 50; The Evening Sun, October 12,1928 p. 3). Despite the fact that the originalsketch of the building published in 1927 showed an "I" shaped building identical to the present plan, Sanbom Fire Insurance mapsshow that the north and south wings were not constructed immediately, but were completed 19 years later in 1947 (The BaltimoreSun, February 17,1948 p. 28; Sanbom Map Company,1928-1950). By 1928, the site contained a two-story steel frame and stonebuilding housing the Department of Motor Vehicles along Guilford Avenue and a second one and two-story steel and concretebuilding facing the alley to the west that served as a garage and a police station (Sanbom Map Company,1928-1950). In 2007, atwo-story addition was completed on the west site of the building that filled the central portion of the "I" between the wings.
Edwin Austin Baughman was appointed the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles by Governor Albert C. Ritchie on May 1, 1916.Baughman was the driving force in the evolution of the Commission from its beginnings as a small agency in the early twentiethcentury tl the important place it held by the middle of the century. He helped organize the Eastern Conference of Motor VehicleAdministrators in 1921, later to become the American Conference of Motor Vehicle Administrators. Baughman initiated theMaryland title law and sponsored the creation of the Baltimore City Traffic Court in 1918. He also initiated the issuing ofoperators' licenses in 1918, requiring operators to demonstrate their ability to drive. He also promoted uniform motor vehicle lawsamong all the states. When he took office, there were eight employees in the administration and 50,734 automobiles in the state. Atthe end of his tenure in 1935, the department had grown to 212 employees and 341,452 motor vehicles (The News Frederick MD,August 1,1946 p.1,11).
Baughman initiated a small coxps of motorcycle officers to enforce the motor vehicle laws in 1914 and in 1921, coinciding withthe flrst Federal Highway Act of 1921, the new State Police Department emerged as a small emergency force directed by theCommissioner of Motor Vehicles. Thus Baughman is also known as the "father" of the Maryland State Police. The first recruitswere former World War I servicemen. By 1922, these men, originally deputized by county sheriffs, had statewide jurisdiction over
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C riteria : A 8 C D C onsiderations : A 8 C D E F G
MHT Comments:
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criminal cases as well (https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual).
Architectural Description:
The main building is a 13x4-bay two and three-story edifice best described as built in the Stripped or Starved Classicism style. In
plan, it appears as a north-south oriented "I"-shaped building having a long central section with wings at both ends. The building isconstructed of a steel frame with tile walls faced with sandstone. The foundation is concrete and the base of the building has astone water table.
The central section is seven bays wide with the main facade facing Guilford Avenue. The first story consists of a high ceilingedfaeade of paired windows capped by round arches with a central entrance. Set back from the first story is a second story mezzaninelevel having regularly spaced double-hung windows with flat lintels. The roof is flat with a stone parapet and there is a cyma rectacornice at the base of the parapet surrounding the building.
The wings, although part of the original 1928 design, were not constructed until 1948. Each wing is three bays wide on the eastand west sides and five bays wide on the north and south sides. The wings read as three stories, with rectangular double-hungwindows and central entrances on the north and south sides having paired entrance doors capped by arched windows and plainstone arches. The east and west sides of the wings continue the fenestration pattern with paired double-hung windows capped by astone arch with rectangular windows on the bays to both sides. All windows throughout the building have been replaced withdouble insulated bronzed aluminum sashes with mullion inserts. The replacement windows do not detract from the integirty ofdesign of the building.
A new addition, constructed in 2007, sits between the wings of the west side of the building. It is two stories high with a stonewater table that matches the lines of the original building. The facade is composed of continuous windows in a slightly archedplan, terminating at a two-story stone, rectangular section at the south wing.
On the western portion of the property is a one and two-story building with low pitched shed roof. It appears to have originallybeen constructed of a steel frame and tile walls with some evidence of a brick fagade that appears to have been later clad withstucco. The southern portion of this building serves as a garage with six overhead door bays on the east side and three overheadbays on the south side. The central portion of the building houses offices and is two stories high, four bays wide and four baysdeep. This section has rectangular steel sash windows and the central entrance faces east towards the main building. There is aconcrete chimney centered on the west end of the roof. The north portion of this building is a one-story section two bays wide witha personnel door and overhead bay. The building appears to be in a state of deterioration with cracked and spalling concrete andrusting window sashes.
While the interior of the main building is relatively intact, the garage/office building is in an advanced state of deterioration,having signs of numerous structural failures that are evidenced by large cracks in the tile constructon. The interior plaster iscrumbling and water damage is evident in numerous places from a leaky roof. Original steel framed awning style windows aredamaged and missing in many places. It no longer possesses adequate integrity of materials to be considered a contributingelement to the property.
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E]igibi]ity recommended Eligibility not recommended
C riteria : A 8 C D Consideration s : A 8 C D E F G
MHT Comments:
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Boundary Description:
The I.5 I-acre property encompassing 2100 Guilford Avenue consists of Lot 17 of block 3812 of Ward 12, Section 13 in BaltimoreCity, containing the Maryland Department of public Safety and Correctional Services Home Detention Unit building and garage.The entire lot has been the boundaries of the property since the two buildings were constructed in 1928.
References:
The Baltimore Sun, Evening SunVarious, as found in : https://www.newspapers.com/
Bromley, Walter S.; Bromley, George W. (Bromley)1906 -Atlas of the City of Baltimore, Published in Philadelphia.
Maryland Manual Online: (https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual).
The News, (Frederick Maryland)Various, as found in : https://www.newspapers.com/
Sanbom Fire Insurance Map Company (Sanbom)1928-1950 -Baltimore, Maryland. Published in New York.
Shirley, Joseph W. Chief EngineerAtlas of the City of Baltimore, Maryland (City of Baltimore Topographical Survey),1914.
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E]igibi]ity recommended E]igibi]ity not recommended
Criteria: A 8 C D Considerations: A 8 C D E F G
MHT Comments:
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Location of 2100 Guilford Avenue on the Baltimore East, Maryland 7.5-Minute USGSQuadrangle(2016).
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Detail view of location of 2100 Guilford Avenue on the Baltimore East, Maryland 7.5-Minute USGS Quadrangle (2016).
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