Thursday, April 18, 2013
Watch as a wrecking crew brings down part of the old, vacant Solo Cup plant in Owings Mills.
As contractors ceremoniously tore down one exterior cinder-block wall at the former Solo Cup plant, they ushered in a 9-month demolition project, making way for the new, retail development Foundry Row. "It's going to be a spectacular development," said Brian Gibbons of developer Greenberg Gibbons after a ceremony Thursday at the plant, 10100 Reisterstown Road in Owings Mills. "Our goal is late 2015, but it could be 2016," he said. The $140 million development project will be home for a new Wegmans among Foundry Row's 365,000 square feet of retail space. Also planned are a national fitness store, a sporting goods store and upscale shops, restaurants, and 60,000 square feet of office space, according to the Greenberg Gibbons Commercial …
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Developers spoke about community benefits and took questions on traffic, demolition and the mix of tenants at a community input meeting Monday night.
Owings Mills resident David Ginsburg says he suffers from “consumer frustration.” If he wants to go shopping, he has to leave the immediate area. After hearing questions and complaints about the traffic that Foundry Row may bring to the Reisterstown Road corridor, Ginsburg stood up to make some comments that were met with enthusiastic applause. “As far as I’m concerned, Reisterstown Road is screwed,” he said, “and if it’s gonna be screwed, I might as well have a place to shop while I’m sitting in traffic.” Ginsburg and residents of Owings Mills and the surrounding areas attended a community input meeting on the project proposed for the vacant Solo Cup plant on Reisterstown Road on Monday night at New Town High School. It was the second …
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Community leaders in Owings Mills and Reisterstown support the Board of Election’s decision to nix the possibility of bringing two zoning decisions to referendum.
An effort two bring two Baltimore County zoning decision to referendum on the 2014 ballot has been stopped, for now. While they don’t think the battle is over, Owings Mills and Reisterstown officials think the Baltimore County Board of Elections made the right decision when it deemed the petitions legally deficient on Tuesday. “I think most of the people at ROG were concerned, as a lot of people were, with the nature of the name collecting,” said George Harman, president of the Reisterstown-Owings Mills-Glyndon Coordinating Council (ROG). “We thought that the process whereby people may not have been told the truth about what they were seeing brought into question the whole process.” Two groups backed by developers David S. Brown …
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
A decision released Tuesday said the opponents of zoning issues in two council districts had enough signatures but ruled the petitions were legally deficient.
UPDATED (9:23 p.m.)—The Baltimore County Board of Elections ruled that petitions to referendum zoning decisions in two council districts will not be placed on the 2014 ballot. Baltimore County Elections Director Katie Brown wrote in a decision issued Tuesday afternoon that while opponents had collected the required number of signatures, the petitions were legally deficient. Andrew Bailey, an attorney for the county Board of Elections, reviewed five challenges to the petition filed by attorneys representing Greenberg Gibbons, the developer of the proposed Foundry Row project on the grounds of the old Solo Cup factory. "I believe that the form of the petition, as circulated to potential signers, was insufficient to alert them to what exactly…
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Baltimore County will hold a community input meeting about the Foundry Row project at New Town High School on Monday, Feb. 11.
Area residents will have another chance to voice their concerns to Baltimore County and developers at a community input meeting for the Foundry Row project next month. At 7 p.m. Feb. 11 a community input meeting on the development, a $140 million retail and business center to be built at the vacant Solo Cup plant, will be held at New Town High School. County officials will be at the meeting at 6:30 p.m. to answer questions prior to the meeting. At a public concept meeting in January, residents asked developers about traffic, the mix of retailers and road improvements. Little time was spent discussing the signatures submitted by two groups backed by opposing developers asking the county to bring its zoning decisions to referendum. “We …
Friday, January 4, 2013
Foundry Row developers updated the community on the project in a public concept meeting Thursday night.
As the Baltimore County Board of Elections nears a decision on whether or not to bring recent zoning changes to referendum, Foundry Row developers are moving full steam ahead. “We believe we have every legal right – the county also believes we have every legal right – to process this plan,” said David Gildea, attorney for Foundry Row developer Greenberg Gibbons. Foundry Row officials updated the community on its plans for the $140 million center in a community input meeting at New Town High School Thursday night. The Wegmans-anchored development is set to contain 420,000 total square feet of retail, restaurants and office space at the site of the vacant Solo Cup plant on Reisterstown Road. Two groups backed by opposing developers have …
Monday, November 5, 2012
Baltimore County Police arrested two men who stole copper wire from the Solo Cup property Sunday.
Baltimore County Police have charged a Baltimore man and a Randallstown man with stealing copper wire from the Solo Cup property on Reisterstown Road in Owings Mills Sunday. Daryl Boykin, 47, of Baltimore, and Romarise Thomas Scott, 46, of Randallstown, are charged with second-degree burglary, fourth-degree burglary and trespassing, according to a police report. The men were caught behind 10 Music Fair Road dragging copper wire off the vacant Solo Cup plant property at 10100 Reisterstown Road Sunday, Nov. 4, around 3:15 a.m. They had approximately $10,000 worth of 500 MCM copper wire, police said. The Solo Cup property is slated to become Foundry Row, a Wegmans-anchored development, which will be built by developer Greenberg Gibbons. …
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Carl Verstandig, a Pikesville real estate investor, has approached Kimco to buy its stake in the mall, according to reports.
A Pikesville real estate company is looking to buy the Owings Mills Mall, according to media reports. America’s Realty LLC has approached Kimco Realty, the company that currently owns the mall along with General Growth Properties, about buying their stake in the property, according to a Baltimore Business Journal report. Carl Verstandig, the company’s CEO, told the BBJ he offered 10 to 15 percent more than other buyers for the mall, which has a vacancy rate of 55 percent. Verstandig could not be reached for comment. Kimco, which unveiled plans to redevelop the mall in February, have not revealed what its next steps are going to be. Geoff Glazer, Kimco’s vice president of acquisitions and development for the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast …
Friday, August 24, 2012
Readers sounded off after a Patch report pieced together information about developers and the community coalition "Say No To Solo."
In less than four months, the Say No To Solo Coalition has sprung up to lead the opposition against rezoning the Solo Cup plant in Owings Mills from manufacturing to retail. The group's funding is somewhat of a mystery, although some suggest it's backed by Kimco, the Owings Mills Mall developer, and its politically connected public relations firm, KO Public Affairs. Find what Patch readers had to say after yesterday's story "The Mysterious Funding of 'Say No To Solo'" below: --"This whole opposition is a sham. If you live here, you want this Wegman's and welcome the redevelopment of Reisterstown Rd. It has been eyesore for years." -CW --"What is the rush to push Solo development through? How about let's say we finish the 2 major projects …
Thursday, August 23, 2012
The community group opposing the proposed Foundry Row development will not name its backers. Others say a rival developer is helping to support the Say No To Solo Coalition.
On a hot July day, three teenagers distributed free bottled water at the intersection of Owings Mills Boulevard and Reisterstown Road. But these were not ordinary bottled waters. They were political statements. The labels featured Baltimore County Councilwoman Vicki Almond’s phone number, the words ‘What’s the Rush? Vote No on Foundry Row!’ and the website address for the Say No To Solo Coalition. As they distributed the bottled water, the teens collected signatures for the coalition opposing Foundry Row, the Wegmans-anchored development proposed for the vacant Solo Cup plant on Reisterstown Road. The teens said the Say No To Solo Coalition was paying them for their efforts. But they did not know who had paid for their supply of nearly 10,…
Vince
9:43 pm on Wednesday, May 1, 2013
The complaint from opposition about traffic congestion is a total red herring. The traffic in the area is not even that bad. There are many areas that are much worse than this. I wonder how many of the compaints are being voiced from Safeway and Giant employees. more ›