One month after approving plans to sell the 7 E. Redwood office building to a private developer, city leaders are thinking about selling two more office buildings and other properties on the west side of downtown.
Baltimore’s Board of Estimates this month approved a request from the city’s Real Estate office to transfer jurisdiction of multiple city-owned properties from the Department of Housing and Community Development/Baltimore Development Corp. to the “Inventory of the Department of General Services” in preparation for possible sale of the transferred properties.
The properties identified for possible sale are: a 10-story office building at 311 W. Saratoga St.; a six-story office building at 310 W. Saratoga St./307-317 W. Mulberry St.; and four lots at 315, 321, 323 and 325 N. Eutaw St. The office building at 310 W. Saratoga St/307 W. Mulberry St., called Saratoga State Center, includes a multi-level parking garage with an entrance on Mulberry Street.
“It is contemplated that the Department of Real Estate is going to facilitate and lead the disposition of the properties through an RFI or RFP process,” states a memo to the Board of Estimates, referring to a ‘Request for Information’ or ‘Request for Proposals’ process required by law when officials seek bids for city-owned properties they want to sell. The city’s Real Estate Committee approved this transfer of jurisdiction on Oct. 9, 2025, the memo states.
The two office buildings have been used to house offices of state agencies, including the state’s Department of General Services at 310 W. Saratoga St. The office building at 311 W. Saratoga St. has a plaque in front that reads: Department of Human Services.
The building at 311 W. Saratoga St. contains 259,400 square feet of space above grade and occupies six-tenths of an acre, according to state land records. It has an assessed value of $9.49 million as of July 1, 2025 and an assessed value of $9.77 million as of July 1, 2026.
The building at 307-317 W. Mulberry St./310 W. Saratoga contains 116,788 square feet of space above grade and occupies 23,743 square feet, or about half an acre, according to state land records. It has an assessed value of $4.05 million as of July 1, 2025, and an assessed value of $4.09 million as of July 1, 2026.
The lot at 325 N. Eutaw St. has 1,190 square feet of land area and an assessed value of $72,867 as of July 1, 2025, and $72,933 as of July 1, 2026. The lot at 323 N. Eutaw St. has 1,955 square feet of land and an assessed value of $119,767 as of July 1, 2025, and an assessed value of $119,833 as of July 1, 2026.
The lot at 321 N. Eutaw St. has 1,702 square feet of land and an assessed value of $104,267 as of July 1, 2025, and an assessed value of $104,333 as of July 1, 2026. The lot at 315 N. Eutaw St. has 10,903 square feet of land and an assessed value of $688,133 as of July 1, 2025, and an assessed value of $668,467 as of July 1, 2026. The state does not have records for 317 and 319 N. Eutaw St., an indication that 315 and 321 N. Eutaw St. are next to each other and the four Eutaw Street parcels are contiguous.
The Eutaw Street properties are midblock lots across from Lexington Market. To the south is a state-owned office building. To the north are low-rise commercial structures, including 327 N. Eutaw St., which has a for-sale sign in its window. The properties take up much of the block and are separated from the sidewalk by a six-foot-high wall.
The Board of Estimates memo did not say when the Real Estate office, a division of Comptroller Bill Henry’s office, may want to dispose of the properties or whether they would be offered together, separately or both.
The buyer of the 7 E. Redwood tower is Redwood Light 7 LLC, an affiliate of Byrnes & Associates, which offered to pay $8 million. It plans to upgrade the 20-story building for continued use by city agencies and add a restaurant at street level.
When it sought bids for the Redwood Street office tower, the Baltimore Development Corp. stated that it would only consider proposals that called for preservation of the existing tower. Its offering did not state a preference in terms of use, except to say it had to comply with what the city’s zoning code allows, which is commercial development.
The properties on Saratoga, Eutaw and Mulberry streets are all within the city’s 24-block Market Center Historic District, which means that any plans to change the exterior of existing structures, up to and including demolition, must be approved by the city’s Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation. The properties are also within a block of the state’s light rail line and the Lexington Market station of the Metro SubwayLink line.
