A 155-year-old office building standing between the Inner Harbor and Camden Yards is headed back to the auction block, with bidding opening Monday for 300 W. Pratt St., better known as the Wilkens Building. The opening bid is set at $400,000, and it marks the second time in two years that the historic property has gone up for sale.
Bidding on the Wilkens Building will open October 19 on the Ten-X digital auction platform, according to WBAL-TV. Anyone looking to bid needs an online Ten-X account to participate. The auction covers 51,457 square feet of office space spread across the building’s second through fifth floors, while the street-level retail portions are excluded from the sale.
The five-story structure, built in 1871 and renovated in 1990, sits uniquely between the Inner Harbor’s Harborplace and Oriole Park at Camden Yards, according to marketing materials from platform.reverecre.com. It also includes 36 surface parking spaces. The building’s ground floor is home to Chipotle, Dunkin’ and Luna Del Sea, the listing notes, and the retail portion is described as fully occupied even as the office floors face vacancies.
Conflicting Occupancy Figures
Exactly how full the Wilkens Building’s office space is depends on who’s counting. WBAL-TV reported the building is leased at 43%, while Revere’s marketing materials say 32% of the office space is available for lease-up, implying 68% occupancy on that basis. The two figures weren’t reconciled in either source, and it’s unclear what measurement dates or definitions produced the gap…