Green & Design - July/August 2009 - (Page 38)
residential Industrial Chic Baltimore developer Patrick Turner has transformed an old grain elevator into an urban, mixed-use oasis and adaptive reuse showcase By Jeffrey Steele, Contributing Editor, Multi-Housing News A few years ago, developer Patrick Turner was walking through Baltimore’s Ft. McKinley area when an old grain elevator caught his attention. The towering concrete building at the water’s edge was long, thin, and offered panoramic views of the Baltimore harbor, making it a natural for transformation into a luxury condominium building. A sign on the property informed the curious that in case of emergency they should call Archer Daniels Midland (ADM). Turner called, and the operator thought he was dialing in to report trouble. Turner assured her that this was not the case. In fact, he said, he wanted to buy the grain elevator. This revelation led to telephone calls to ADM’s president and subsequently to the senior vice president of grain operations. For the next six months, that ADM official responded to Turner’s repeated inquiries by assuring him again and again that the grain elevator was not for sale. “Finally, in the seventh month, he asked what we intended to do with it, because given its explosion resistance, it would be too costly to tear down,” Turner recalls. “I told him I wanted to put in luxury condos. And then he asked me for more information on our company—obviously thinking I was either brilliant or insane.” Seven years later, it seems the president of Baltimore’s Turner Development Group was brilliant. First move-ins took place in January 2009 at Silo Point, a 228-unit luxury condominium development built into the old B & O Railroad grain elevator. Even in a difficult environment, 25 percent of the units have sold. And Silo Point 38 www.greenanddesign.com | July/August 2009
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Green & Design - July/August 2009
Green & Design - July/August 2009
Contents
Editorial
Is Carbon Neutral Possible?
Products
Growing Green
Firmly Planted
The Energizer Effect
Natural Wonders
Above the Fray
Northern Exposure
Industrial Chic
Walking the Walk
Green Building Goes Global
Here Come the Lawyers
Do You Have to be LEED to be Green?
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