Townhomes Proposed for 1500 South Charles St.
Green Door Properties, a South Baltimore real estate development, management and brokerage firm, along with Ian Sokoloski of Design Evolution Architecture revealed plans for a new townhome project at 1500 South Charles St. at the South Baltimore Neighborhood Association meeting on Tuesday, October 8th. The plans call for an existing church to be demolished and converted into four new townhomes. The plans additionally include the renovation of two existing rowhomes located on Fort Ave. and Olive St.
Three of the new townhomes will be 18 feet wide and feature a two-car garage and one will be 16 feet wide with a one-car garage. The rehab on Fort Ave. will include a parking pad. An alley will be created and accessible from Fort Ave. for access to the garages and pad. There will be no designated parking available for the rehab on Olive St.
The new three-story townhomes will each feature three bedrooms, a rear second-story deck and a rooftop deck. The exterior of the homes facing Charles St. and Fort Ave. will be brick.
Concerns were heard by neighbors of adjacent properties about privacy and increased access to their properties as result of the addition of a new alley. Green Door said they would look into building a taller privacy fence as well as making the alley gated.
Concerns were also heard about the demolition of the church, which was built in 1879. Green Door stated that a conversion of the church to residential properties would be nearly impossible with the current structure of the building and the state of the caving roof.
The project is still in the planning phases and Green Door said they will continue to work with neighbors before beginning construction.
No timetable has been set for a groundbreaking.
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