Legg Mason leaving downtown home

(Chris Ammann/Baltimore Examiner)
Financial giant Legg Mason announced today it is leaving its downtown tower for new digs in Harbor East.
BALTIMORE - Legg Mason is getting a new address. The asset management firm announced Tuesday that it signed a 15-year agreement with H&S Development Corp. to lease up to 400,000 square feet in a proposed complex in Baltimore's Inner Harbor East.


The new Legg Mason tower in Harbor East will be home to the majority of the firm’s Baltimore-area employees, beginning in the summer of 2009, when the company plans to move.

“It's going to be brand new, state-of-the-art space that we can customize,” said Mary Athridge, spokeswoman for Legg Mason.

When Legg moves, it will leave behind its iconic home at the corner of Pratt and Light streets that bears its name. A standout along the Baltimore skyline, the building was constructed in 1973 and is the tallest in Maryland, according to Emporis, an international building and real estate data base.

The current Harbor East development covers eight square blocks — more than 500,000 square feet of retail and entertainment space and 1 million square feet of new Class-A office space.
The developer estimates the entire space will create more than 4,000 new jobs for Baltimore City, H&S said in a news release.

Legg Mason employees are looking forward to the new complex.

“There are pictures posted around of the new building, and people are saying, ‘this looks really nice,’” Athridge said.

As for Baltimore, the city is glad that Legg Mason is staying in Charm City.

“I think it’s great news,” said Kirby Fowler, president of The Downtown Partnership of Baltimore Inc. “We are glad to see that they are staying in Baltimore City and expanding.”

Athridge said the move isn’t that big of a deal, but the company is excited.

‘It's not that we're leaving,” she said, “but that we're taking advantage of the new space.”


http://www.examiner.com/images/newsroom/Image/rendering.jpg
http://www.mddailyrecord.com/_images/article/02_12_leggtower1.jpg

This is HUGE!!!
The Four Seasons tower is over 36 floors high. Clearly a new tallest for the Harbor East skyline. Leg Mason's new building looks good, too. :yes: :)
I can't wait till ground-breaking. :D
:banana: :banana: :banana: :cheers: :cheers: :tup: :yes:
Come on, 2009! :yes: :)

I have renamed Harbor East to "Harbor Bethesda East"


Legg Mason leaving downtown home

(Chris Ammann/Baltimore Examiner)
Financial giant Legg Mason announced today it is leaving its downtown tower for new digs in Harbor East.
BALTIMORE - Legg Mason is getting a new address. The asset management firm announced Tuesday that it signed a 15-year agreement with H&S Development Corp. to lease up to 400,000 square feet in a proposed complex in Baltimore's Inner Harbor East.


The new Legg Mason tower in Harbor East will be home to the majority of the firm’s Baltimore-area employees, beginning in the summer of 2009, when the company plans to move.

“It's going to be brand new, state-of-the-art space that we can customize,” said Mary Athridge, spokeswoman for Legg Mason.

When Legg moves, it will leave behind its iconic home at the corner of Pratt and Light streets that bears its name. A standout along the Baltimore skyline, the building was constructed in 1973 and is the tallest in Maryland, according to Emporis, an international building and real estate data base.

The current Harbor East development covers eight square blocks — more than 500,000 square feet of retail and entertainment space and 1 million square feet of new Class-A office space.
The developer estimates the entire space will create more than 4,000 new jobs for Baltimore City, H&S said in a news release.

Legg Mason employees are looking forward to the new complex.

“There are pictures posted around of the new building, and people are saying, ‘this looks really nice,’” Athridge said.

As for Baltimore, the city is glad that Legg Mason is staying in Charm City.

“I think it’s great news,” said Kirby Fowler, president of The Downtown Partnership of Baltimore Inc. “We are glad to see that they are staying in Baltimore City and expanding.”

Athridge said the move isn’t that big of a deal, but the company is excited.

‘It's not that we're leaving,” she said, “but that we're taking advantage of the new space.”


http://www.examiner.com/images/newsroom/Image/rendering.jpg
http://www.mddailyrecord.com/_images/article/02_12_leggtower1.jpg

This is HUGE!!!
The Four Seasons tower is over 36 floors high. Clearly a new tallest for the Harbor East skyline. Leg Mason's new building looks good, too. :yes: :)
I can't wait till ground-breaking. :D
:banana: :banana: :banana: :cheers: :cheers: :tup: :yes:
Come on, 2009! :yes: :)

They wil have to break ground almost immediately since it has to be finished by 2009. The 36 story tower will probably be about 425 feet tall and the Legg Mason Tower about 325 feet tall. WOW what a development of Inner Harbor Easy and Acoompanying Harbor Point. 7 or 8 hotels, the Corporate Headquaters for Sylvan, Legg Mason, and a huge office for Morgan Stanley.
Over 2,000 housing units and tons of retail space. I think the whole development is over 8,000,000 square feet. This unit delvelopment covering about 45 acres is probably one of the largest single developement projects in the country. it is sad now that H&S was not allowed to build the original 51 story hotel where the 32 story hotel is now. That would have really made a difference. I'll take 36 stories anyday over the original 24 stories. I think both towers will sart at the same time for one reason. The two towers will sit on a base with a 1,200 car garage. it just does not make sense to build in stages when you have to build the base anyway. I'm glad to see Legg Mason actually bringing in employees from the County.

Nice to see Baltimore rising the inner harbor really put the city on the map.

The new design for the Four Seasons Hotel looks MUCH better than the initial proposal. Less brick, more height..an office component.

I wouldve liked to see Legg become the primary tenet at 1 Light Street, but whatever. I cant complain too much. Its not my $550 million being spent.

nice project

Sweet. I agree, the new design is far better than the earlier, more glass and steel. There should be no trouble in leasing the old legg tower, might be many different companies though. Downton is really going to look different with this project, 10 Inner Harbor, 300 East Pratt, Westport Tower and the likely 2 60 story towers on guilford near Hammer Jacks.

ps. Nice renderings, Where'd you get them?:cheers:

^^ The Examiner, The Sun and Maryland Daily Record.

Btw, welcome to the Forum! :)

:yes: Please post often. :yes:

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w137/ktulured55/4s-view03.jpg

and here is a (not so great, sorry) rendering of what the skyline might look like in a few years. It's at the very left
http://www.imagehosting.com/out.php/i230396_Baltimorerendering.jpg

heres more recent renderings!

http://www.sber.com/baltimore/four_seasons.php

the new verson

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y104/rabitaluna69/harboreastnew.jpg

baltimore will have 2 skylines now :)

Wow, this render (with the stepped building to the left) really gives me a feel for how big these are going to be.

I so *heart* Harbor East. I need to get back to Pazo for their malloredus.

Legg Mason leaving downtown home

(Chris Ammann/Baltimore Examiner)
Financial giant Legg Mason announced today it is leaving its downtown tower for new digs in Harbor East.
BALTIMORE - Legg Mason is getting a new address. The asset management firm announced Tuesday that it signed a 15-year agreement with H&S Development Corp. to lease up to 400,000 square feet in a proposed complex in Baltimore's Inner Harbor East.


The new Legg Mason tower in Harbor East will be home to the majority of the firm’s Baltimore-area employees, beginning in the summer of 2009, when the company plans to move.

“It's going to be brand new, state-of-the-art space that we can customize,” said Mary Athridge, spokeswoman for Legg Mason.

When Legg moves, it will leave behind its iconic home at the corner of Pratt and Light streets that bears its name. A standout along the Baltimore skyline, the building was constructed in 1973 and is the tallest in Maryland, according to Emporis, an international building and real estate data base.

The current Harbor East development covers eight square blocks — more than 500,000 square feet of retail and entertainment space and 1 million square feet of new Class-A office space.
The developer estimates the entire space will create more than 4,000 new jobs for Baltimore City, H&S said in a news release.

Legg Mason employees are looking forward to the new complex.

“There are pictures posted around of the new building, and people are saying, ‘this looks really nice,’” Athridge said.

As for Baltimore, the city is glad that Legg Mason is staying in Charm City.

“I think it’s great news,” said Kirby Fowler, president of The Downtown Partnership of Baltimore Inc. “We are glad to see that they are staying in Baltimore City and expanding.”

Athridge said the move isn’t that big of a deal, but the company is excited.

‘It's not that we're leaving,” she said, “but that we're taking advantage of the new space.”


http://www.examiner.com/images/newsroom/Image/rendering.jpg
http://www.mddailyrecord.com/_images/article/02_12_leggtower1.jpg

This is HUGE!!!
The Four Seasons tower is over 36 floors high. Clearly a new tallest for the Harbor East skyline. Leg Mason's new building looks good, too. :yes: :)
I can't wait till ground-breaking. :D
:banana: :banana: :banana: :cheers: :cheers: :tup: :yes:
Come on, 2009! :yes: :)

can you amis write in meters because nobody knows how much feet this is...you should adapt to the world,not the other way around!

wow. way to put a downer on things...
no one ever said that using feet means that we are trying to make the world adapt to our system and if you really wanted to know what it is in meters, you can go to a place that converts ft to meters. but ill do that 494 ft = 150.571 2 meters. 350 = 106.68 meters
seriously, it IS a US project and here in the US we dont usually give out meters to the public, but ft and they gave us 494 ft and 350 ft. Im Sorry if we have a different system than you and you get mad at us for it :ohno:

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on a better note, here are some new renderings

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/5543/88900142bk4.jpg

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/2048/74016010hi6.jpg

im so happy for baltimore! (even if some people cant be and complain about our system of mesurment :| )

Wow, this place is gonna be crazy...I can't wait till the movie theater opens so I can spend more time down there.

can you amis write in meters because nobody knows how much feet this is...you should adapt to the world,not the other way around!

Break out the calculator, genius. It ain't hard.

This project is U/C ... StevenW you should send a pm to a moderator so he could change it ( I'm talking about the title). Oh yeah, The towers look awesome , much better than the original design.

wow. way to put a downer on things...
no one ever said that using feet means that we are trying to make the world adapt to our system and if you really wanted to know what it is in meters, you can go to a place that converts ft to meters. but ill do that 494 ft = 150.571 2 meters. 350 = 106.68 meters
seriously, it IS a US project and here in the US we dont usually give out meters to the public, but ft and they gave us 494 ft and 350 ft. Im Sorry if we have a different system than you and you get mad at us for it :ohno:

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on a better note, here are some new renderings

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/5543/88900142bk4.jpg

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/2048/74016010hi6.jpg

im so happy for baltimore! (even if some people cant be and complain about our system of mesurment :| )

I think I like this one even more than 10 Inner Habor expect for the hight. When all the two towers schedule to be completed?

I think I like this one even more than 10 Inner Habor expect for the hight. When all the two towers schedule to be completed?

The Legg Mason tower : 2009 . Four Seasons : 2010 ( first quarter ). If i'm wrong , somebody please , correct me.

Since Legg Mason won't be using its existing building anymore, what will be done to the Legg Mason Tower?

can you amis write in meters because nobody knows how much feet this is...you should adapt to the world,not the other way around!

WHAT! Get lost dude.

^^omh is happy for us. he just has a bad way of expressing it.....lol.:lol:
oh well, ya' can't please everyone.

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!I WENT TO THE FOUR SEASONS CONSTRUCTION SITE TODAY AND ITS COMPLETELY BLOCKED OFF BY FENCING..SOMETHING IN MY HEART TOLD ME THAT IN THAT FENCING,WAS A HUGE HOLE...They're NOW making the 4-5 levels of the undergrown parking garage.But the thing im mad about is that I dont even know what level they're on.I guess they're taking they're time because I didnt even see the Legg Mason construction site even though the fencing is completely surrouned by BOTH the Four Seasons AND the Legg Mason.So basically,the fencing is like a HUGE ring!But the thing is that I dont consider this as Construction...at least not yet.I TAKE CONSTRUCTION AS WHEN YOU FINALLY SEE THE BUILDINGS RISE!In this case,I Dont think that will start happening from until Early December to Early January.I ALSO THOUGHT OF SOMETHING ELSE!!WITH THE FOUR SEASONS AND LEGG MASON TOWERS IN OUR SKYLINE,THAT AREA WILL NO LONGER BE A GOOD FIREWORKS SITE..well at least I dont think so.Does anyone else think that these babes will completely block the Fireworks site?:nuts:

This is the latest pic on the Legg Mason/4 Seasons construction site
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http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d118/guzmanrodriguez1/image2.jpg

Since Legg Mason won't be using its existing building anymore, what will be done to the Legg Mason Tower?

I believe they'll simply lease out the office space to others.

Locals would probably kill me for saying this, but I think the current LMT is an eyesore and a relic of a dated era. Knock it down and put up a 300m+ glass-and-steel monster.

^ i would love that to happen, but i don't think it is a monstrosity at all

I believe they'll simply lease out the office space to others.

Locals would probably kill me for saying this, but I think the current LMT is an eyesore and a relic of a dated era. Knock it down and put up a 300m+ glass-and-steel monster.

I know the locals will probably kill you for making that statement because the building is too young for demolition and hasn't lived a full life yet. you'll have to wait until the 2020s for that to happen.

I believe they'll simply lease out the office space to others.

Locals would probably kill me for saying this, but I think the current LMT is an eyesore and a relic of a dated era. Knock it down and put up a 300m+ glass-and-steel monster.

Even so,to demolish a 529 ft skyscraper is extrememly complicated,let alone,expensive.To demolish Baltimore's tallest skyscraper will disrupt office workers from other buildings and people walking around or near the skyscraper and I COMPLETELY agree with jim856796,it just hasn't lived its full term yet.As much as I would LOVE to see a 300+ meter skyscraper downtown,demolishing Legg Mason isnt the answer.Demolish the Commerce/Alex Brown Tower instead..J/K!!:colgate:

^^ If you're talking about commerce Place, that building has not yet lived a full life, also.

heres a render by northern

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd202/callabow/ssc/lm.jpg

baltimore's new skyline :cheers:

I believe they'll simply lease out the office space to others.

Locals would probably kill me for saying this, but I think the current LMT is an eyesore and a relic of a dated era. Knock it down and put up a 300m+ glass-and-steel monster.

Church, brother. Preach it!

cranes up! Photo from baltosteve, here at ssc

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2231/2239430128_1f46012fc1_o.jpg

Title really should be changed from APP to U/C - this baby is on its way. Now if there could just be some fill between HE and the IH - Scarlett Place is kind of a weak filler IMHO.

So , I went to Whole foods this morning and remember I had my camera with me , so I decided to take some pictures of the area. The only problem was that my camera's battery life was low , almost dead , still I managed to take a few pictures. I walked around the Legg/4S construction site ( a lot of movement ) but you couldn't see much through the fence. I talked to one of the workers ( hoping he let me snap a few shots of the site ) but he was going back to work. I asked him what they were building , he told me about what we already know ( Legg Tower 24 stories , Four Seasons 45 stories ) my one and only regret is that I forgot to ask him the completion date :bash:anyways hope you guys like them.

http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z289/Exrexnotex/Balti003-1.jpg

http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z289/Exrexnotex/Balti007.jpg

http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z289/Exrexnotex/Balti014.jpg

http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z289/Exrexnotex/Balti016.jpg

Finally :D

45 stories sounds good. Maybe this tower will break the 500' mark. :)

I dont think its going to be 45 stories,maybe its an error the construction worker made..but I HOPE ITS 45 STORIES!!lol

^^ What's another floor ? ... 45 floors will give us the 500' mark !

good buildings
baltimore deserves more towers :)

Can they change the thread from "App" to "U/C"?

^^ What's another floor ? ... 45 floors will give us the 500' mark !

Sorry about being Pessamistic but it would be very odd for them to add another floor out of nowhere.But Im with you,MAKE IT 500 FT+!!

This is now my favorite project in Bmore, after the recent redesign of the now ugly 10 inner harbor :ohno:

This is now my favorite project in Bmore, after the recent redesign of the now ugly 10 inner harbor :ohno:

Lol...I agree with you 100%.I'm definitely looking forward to the Legg Mason/Four Seasons more..The only thing Im focused on about the 10 Inner Harbor, or should I say, the "Confidential Project", is the final Height.As everyone here has opinions, I have mine and I sure do think that the height of towers plays a good role in defining a city.Hope that thing looks nicer than the new rendering because the facade is aweful.

So just a couple more months for this baby to start rising ( Legg first ). Oh, and trust me you guys , when 10 IH is completed , it would not look so out of place as it appears to be right now.

Another rendering of the Legg Mason tower ( posted on the Baltimore development forum by StevenW )

http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z289/Exrexnotex/Newleggtower.jpg

That rendering is one of the old ones...heres one of the updates renders
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d118/guzmanrodriguez1/TheFourSeasonsandTheLeggMasonTower.jpg

^^ Very nice rendering.

Better yet, Here are ALL of the Updated Renderings
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d118/guzmanrodriguez1/TheFourSeasonsandTheLeggMasonTower3.jpg
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d118/guzmanrodriguez1/TheFourSeasonsandTheLeggMasonTower2.jpg
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d118/guzmanrodriguez1/TheFourSeasonsandTheLeggMasonTower.jpg
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d118/guzmanrodriguez1/lm.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d118/guzmanrodriguez1/harboreastnew.jpg

Working on this project,first slab of parking garage to be poured first of next week, construction about to take off. Will try to answer any questions you have.Good view of site from public access parking garage next to Marriott, don't have to park there just take elevator to seventh floor.

^ Great! Some Baltimore forums shoud get up there!

here's a shot from flickr, the crane very tall and visible
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3170/2331358370_eb60a29845_b.jpg
http://flickr.com/photos/hoodwinks1/2331358370/

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Here's a great new rendering i found in the Baltimore section

http://www.fourseasons.com/residence_clubs/images/generated/property/baltimore/slideshow/page_633_image_0.jpg

Beautiful rendering. Looks to be well over 500 ft. tall IMO.

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These pics are a couple of weeks old but still worth posting [ Pics by Ca't say ]


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3207/2596206587_aa899ea90b_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3128/2596206593_616cf5a10d_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3003/2596206595_2f8448c8f6_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3091/2596206599_e7085535c6_b.jpg

This pic is from last weekend taken by pfd103

Pic from across the water (from Sunday)
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q125/pfd103/IMG_0647.jpg

here's a rendering of harborpoint (another area in the city with big developments) with 4 seasons/ Legg in the backround

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b29/code130/Untitled-3-9.jpg

from pfd103
Here are some shots from this weekend...

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q125/pfd103/IMG_0827.jpg
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q125/pfd103/IMG_0835.jpg
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q125/pfd103/IMG_0845.jpg
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q125/pfd103/IMG_0847.jpg

And the "This is bad idea pic"...parked directly next to a construction site.
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q125/pfd103/IMG_0846.jpg

posted by StevenW in the Baltimore section

http://blogs.mddailyrecord.com/ontherecord/files/2008/08/08_19_harboreast.jpg

On a walk today through Harbor East with H&S Properties Development president Michael Beatty and assistant development manager Christopher Janian, we made time to take a look at the progress over at the Four Seasons / Legg Mason Tower site, which is rising from the ground at a breakneck pace. The above photo montage was put together by Daily Record photographer Rich Dennison using shots he took from the rooftop garage at 720 Aliceanna St., the same building where H&S is based.

Beatty told us that his company is spending $5 million each month, and that 300 excavators are on site working every day. Those numbers, he said, will rise to $20 million and 1,000 as the 1.8 million-square-foot structure continues to grow. It certainly looked busy, with dozens of work crews in fluorescent green vests swarming over the site, hammering at metal, moving rebar and steel and riding around in go-cart-like concrete-smoothing vehicles.

The two phases of the Harbor East expansion, which will include a new headquarters building for money manager Legg Mason and Baltimore’s first five-star hotel, with some pricey luxury condos on top, are expected to be done in 2009 and 2010, respectively.

One interesting thing that Janian mentioned was that the crews are adding one story every eight days to the proposed 24-story Legg tower. He added that the crews stagger the construction of new floors between the north and south sides of the building, so that the concrete is poured for the next story on the southern half of the structure before all the work on the northern half is completed — so the process appears to be going slightly faster than it actually is.

Oh, and that cool, robotic-looking, N-shaped gizmo on top? That’s what pours the concrete into the mold and makes the floor what it is.

ROBBIE WHELAN, Business Writer

I love that pic!^^^

Looks what DrzBrooklynChulo90 has brought us! Glass! :happy:

Took A Stroll down by Harbor East Yesterday and here's what I got:

Legg Mason Tower..Can Somebody Say..GLASS!!
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d118/guzmanrodriguez1/004.jpg
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d118/guzmanrodriguez1/005-1.jpg
Looking Up
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d118/guzmanrodriguez1/007-1.jpg
Look at that Glass
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d118/guzmanrodriguez1/008-1.jpg
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d118/guzmanrodriguez1/012-1.jpg
From the Side of the Legg Mason Tower
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d118/guzmanrodriguez1/013-1.jpg
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d118/guzmanrodriguez1/014-1.jpg
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d118/guzmanrodriguez1/015-1.jpg
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d118/guzmanrodriguez1/016-1.jpg
The Four Seasons
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d118/guzmanrodriguez1/009-1.jpg
This project is so Famous...Somebody had to steal the E off of "FOUR SEASONS"
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d118/guzmanrodriguez1/006-1.jpg
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d118/guzmanrodriguez1/010-1.jpg
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d118/guzmanrodriguez1/011-1.jpg
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d118/guzmanrodriguez1/017-1.jpg
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d118/guzmanrodriguez1/018-1.jpg

its gonna look so good

This has been U/C for a while, it has to be moved

anyway, here's a great photo

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3451/3245576867_dccaf5a9d7_b.jpg
http://flickr.com/photos/ride518/3245576867/

neeet

This has been U/C for a while, it has to be moved



Done. :)

The new Legg Mason Building may be shorter than the existing tower, but will it contain more or less floorspace than the existing one?