Four freestanding buildings in Charles Village will be demolished to make way for housing for Johns Hopkins University students, under a plan by a Texas-based developer that’s working with the university.
Preliminary designs for the development were presented to Baltimore’s Urban Design and Architecture Advisory Panel (UDAAP) last month.
If it moves ahead as proposed, this would be the largest residential development in Charles Village since two apartment projects were completed at least 10 years ago: Nine East 33rd Street, a 12-story building that opened at 9 E. 33rd St. in 2016 and consists of 157 apartments with 568 beds, and the 11-story Scott-Bates Commons (formerly, Charles Commons), which opened in 2006 at 3301 N. Charles St. with space to house 600 students.
The latest project would involve the demolition of four of the six buildings on the east side of the 3200 block of N. Charles Street to create a 43,280-square-foot development parcel, nearly an acre. All four of the targeted buildings are vacant and owned by the university…