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Shopping Centers Today -> March 2005
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IN BRIEF
Mall adds open-air space
Annapolis, Md.-based Petrie Ventures is renovating the 459,000-square-foot Glen Burnie (Md.) Mall and adding two open-air components. The redeveloped property will be renamed the Center at Glen Burnie and contain about 35,000 additional square feet of retail space. The center will get a new common area and entrances as well as extensive landscaping over the course of two phases. A Target store opened in October, joining existing anchors Best Buy, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Toys ‘R’ Us. Petrie says it plans to open the first phase of the open-air expansion this summer, but it has set no time frame for opening the second phase.D.C. ’burb deals hit $340M
Purchases of shopping centers in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., totaled $340 million through the first nine months of 2004, according to a survey sponsored by locally based brokerage Madison Retail Group. The neighborhoods in Northern Virginia accounted for nearly three-quarters of that, with some $242 million in transactions.Baltimore mall to go Main Street
Greenberg Commercial Corp., Owings Mills, Md., is redeveloping the 410,000-square-foot Hunt Valley (Md.) Mall with a town-center-style component and renaming it Hunt Valley Towne Centre. The project will contain more than 860,000 square feet of retail space (250,000 square feet of it in a Main Street setting) plus several pad sites. Wegmans, making its Baltimore debut, will anchor the expansion.Mixed-use planned for brewery
Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse and Obrecht Commercial Real Estate are redeveloping the Gunther Brewery and National Brewing Co. sites in Baltimore as one mixed-use center. The 790,000-square-foot project, to be called Brewers Hill, will include about 90,000 square feet of retail space, 400,000 square feet of offices, 150,000 square feet for commercial real estate uses still to be determined and about 100 lofts and apartments.Westfield to expand Annapolis mall
Westfield has submitted expansion plans for its 1.5 million-square-foot Shoppingtown Annapolis (Md.) Mall to Anne Arundel County for approval. The plans call for about 266,000 square feet of new and reconfigured gross leasable area. The expansion is also to include a 66,000-square-foot space for a junior anchor. Currently, Shoppingtown Annapolis is an enclosed, single-level regional mall with about 175 stores. Hecht’s, JCPenney, Lord & Taylor, Nordstrom and Sears anchor the center, which also includes an 11-screen cinema.Md.’s first transit retail center
Owings Mills, Md.-based Klein Enterprises will develop the Village at Odenton (Md.) Station, a 400,000-square-foot neighborhood center. The project, which is to be the first transit-oriented shopping center in Anne Arundel County, is going up next to a Maryland Transit Administration stop.Mixed-use future for mall
Erwin L. Greenberg Commercial Corp. is developing a mixed-use center on the site of the former Parole Plaza Shopping Center, which has stood vacant for 12 years. The Annapolis (Md.) Towne Centre at Parole will contain 2 million square feet of retail, office and residential space. Owings Mills, Md.-based Greenberg says it plans to open the project in January 2007. Parole Plaza Shopping Center, built in 1962, drew a steady stream of shoppers through the 1970s. It fell into disrepair and then lost customers and tenants to the Annapolis Mall (today Westfield Shoppingtown Annapolis), which opened in the 1980s, according to the Anne Arundel Economic Development Corp., Annapolis, Md.Shopping Centers Today
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