UB marketplace and apartment project gets thumbs up from city design panel

Plans to convert a vacant corner in Midtown into a busy complex anchored by a marketplace and apartments moved forward on Thursday before a city design panel. The five-story building would add a new gateway to the University of Baltimore’s urban campus and act as an extension of the ongoing renewal of Penn Station a block away, the city’s Urban Design and Architecture Advisory Panel, or UDAAP, was told by officials of BCT Design Group during the nearly two-hour meeting. BCT is designing the project for developers Zahlco and the University of Baltimore.