ULI Baltimore July Content Before Cocktails at The Enolia - A Member Only Event

When

2025-07-17
2025-07-17T17:30:00 - 2025-07-17T20:00:00
America/New_York

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    Where

    The Enolia 4529 Harford Road Baltimore, MD 21219 United States

    Pricing

    Pricing Members Non-Members
    All Types $25.00 N/A

    The Enolia is a first-of-its-kind $65 million redevelopment of a vacant brownfield site in Baltimore City into high-quality student housing for Maryland's flagship HBCU, Morgan State University. Developed by MCB Real Estate, the recently completed project is a new 5-story, 473-bed project that includes a mix of 4-bedroom, 2-bedroom and 1 bedroom furnished apartments designed around an exterior courtyard. Interior amenities include a game room, student lounge, fitness center, and study rooms.

     

     

    Project funding included significant social impact capital secured by MCB to keep rents as affordable as possible for students. The project is named after a celebrated civil rights leader from Maryland, Enolia Pettigen McMillan, who served as Morgan's first female chair of its Board of Regents. The building connects students to her civil rights legacy through unique historic displays in cooperation with Morgan historians.

     

    The development represents Morgan's first project in Lauraville, revitalizing a long-dormant section of Main Street and infusing new life to support area merchants. A second phase will utilize historic tax credits to transform a vacant historic hotel into a 24,000 SF apartment building that caters to Morgan State's graduate students.

     

    The project team included Alexander Design Studios as lead architect, MSA on interior design, CORE Design Studio on landscape architecture and MRA as civil engineer. Additional team members included Onyx, Henry Adams, Urban Green Environmental, Hillis-Cairns, Younts Design and Lorax. The builder was Virginia-based LF Jennings.

    Speakers

    Speaker

    Amy Bonitz

    Managing Director, Community Development, MCB Real Estate

    Amy Bonitz is a Managing Director with MCB Real Estate, where she manages a team that focuses on mixed-use and community development projects. Amy has over 25 years of experience in commercial real estate and community development and is adept at managing complicated urban projects throughout the development lifecycle. With a particular skillset in structuring public private partnerships and tax credit financing to deliver on critical community and innovation projects, Amy has completed over $250 million in development including serving as the lead developer for the Enolia, Centre Theater, Motor House, Open Works, Rising Sun Mills, Bond Street Wharf and other mixed-use projects that brought creative uses to disinvested communities. Prior to joining MCB, Amy served as Managing Partner for Anthem Communities, President and CEO of the Baltimore Arts Realty Corporation and principal of Bonitz Palmer LLC, a consulting firm. Amy holds a Masters in Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a B.A. from Macalester College. She serves on the boards of several Baltimore charitable organizations and served on the Baltimore's Mayoral Task Force for Safe Art Spaces, where she developed new zoning policies for innovative art spaces and launched an Art Space Technical Assistance program to help artists develop safe and sustainable spaces. Amy was named to the Daily Record's Maryland Top 100 Women in 2020 and was recognized as one of 15 "Women Who Mean Business" by the Baltimore Business Journal in 2024 in recognition of her leadership, excellence in her career and community service. Amy lives in Baltimore, Maryland with her husband and two children.

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