Project Details
- Project Name
- 400 East Pratt Street Expansion
- Location
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400 East Pratt Street
MD
- Architect
- Fillat+ Architecture
- Client/Owner
- PDL Investment Company
- Project Types
- Mixed-Use
- Project Scope
- Addition/Expansion
- Size
- 44,000 sq. feet
- Year Completed
- 2014
- Shared by
- Miabelle Salzano
- Team
- Peter Fillat, AIA, executive architect
- Consultants
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General Contractor: Constantine Commercial Construction,Structural Engineer: Morabito Consultants,Consulting Engineer: DDG Engineering,Interior Designer: PLDA Interiors,Civil Engineer: STV
- Project Status
- Built
Project Description
FROM THE ARCHITECTS:
The 400 East Pratt Street Expansion is a two-level, mixed-use, commercial addition to an existing Class-A office building. The addition contains 44,000 square feet of retail and office space, surrounded on three sides by a two-story curtain wall. The ground floor hosts the new lobby, serving the entire building as well as three fast-casual restaurants, a bank, and a convenience store. The second floor hosts new office space and a rooftop terrace which offers tenants scenic views of the city and Baltimore’s famous Inner Harbor. The “jewel box” design concept was conceived to be light and transparent, not only to provide office tenants maximum visibility of the Inner Harbor during the day, but to glow in the evening with vibrant pedestrian activity.
In the original Pratt Street Master Plan, all buildings were set back from the street a significant distance to provide green space as a way of offsetting the industrial feel often found in urban centers. The intention was to create large landscaped berms that act as a buffer between vehicular traffic and pedestrian promenades. This approach, however, created large empty and occasionally desolate spaces that weakened street connectivity and human interaction. The new Pratt Street Master Plan proposes to add projected Retail frontage to the existing architecture that will bring more commercial development to the area and increased pedestrian activity. The first building addition to be built as part of the redevelopment vision set forth in the new Master Plan, 400 East Pratt has become the design catalyst for future Pratt Street corridor redevelopments.