Site plan courtesy of 28 Walker and Kimley Horn
Townhomes are once again planned for the Cheer Building at 1450 Beason St. in Locust Point. The property is owned by Mark Sapperstein’s development company, 28 Walker, and was recently under contract with Cristo Rey Jesuit High School as a potential new location for the Baltimore school.
28 Walker initially planned to develop townhomes on the property when it purchased the building in 2025. Later that year, the company shifted its focus to the Cristo Rey project after representatives from the school approached Sapperstein about renovating the building for a new school.
Sapperstein told SouthBMore.com the Cristo Rey project was unable to move forward, so 28 Walker has returned to its original plan for townhomes at the property. Cristo Rey has been in Fells Point since 2007
The Cheer Building property, which is separate from Under Armour’s former waterfront Tide Point complex across the street, consists of a 350,000 sq. ft., one- and two-story building, and parking lots on 7.152 acres. The building was previously used as office and warehouse space by Under Armour before the company relocated to Baltimore Peninsula.
The property does not include the triangular parking lot at the north end of the complex between Decatur St. and the CSX railroad tracks. That lot is owned by Under Armour as part of its Tide Point complex.
The property also does not include the Locust Point Community Church and the Baltimore Immigration Museum which are surrounded on three sides by the Cheer Building’s parking lots.
28 Walker is planning 122 townhomes following the demolition of the Cheer Building. The plan calls for homes along the existing blocks of Haubert St. and Beason St., new extensions of Decatur St. and Marriott St., and additional blocks of homes facing new green spaces.
The development also includes a new park space at the intersection of Beason, Decatur, and Haubert St. There is currently a green space that runs along Haubert St.
The development will add 488 parking spaces. These spaces are comprised of 244 garage spaces, 105 rear parking pad spaces, and 139 new surface parking spaces.
28 Walker will develop the land, while DRB Homes, which is currently building homes at 28 Walker’s Locke Landing development, will construct the townhomes.
Sapperstein told SouthBMore.com the homes will be approximately 2,500 sq. ft. and four stories, similar to the midsize option at Locke Landing. The homes will offer three to five bedrooms, depending on the layout selected by buyers.
28 Walker hopes to begin demolition late this year, and start work on infrastructure and lots in early 2027.
28 Walker held a meeting with the Locust Point Civic Association (LPCA) on Tuesday night. It received a letter of support for a change to the Planned Unit Development needed to convert the entire property to residential use.
LPCA is working on a memorandum of understanding with 28 Walker addressing aspects of the development, including demolition, construction, traffic flow for work trucks, HOA street access, street parking, and building heights.
