Posts by Sarah Koch
David Cordish, Scott Plank selected to national list of Commercial Real Estate executives
Cordish Cos.’ chief David Cordish and War Horse Cities CEO Scott Plank have been selected to a national list of notable commercial real estate executives. The Business Journals’ Influencers: Commercial Real Estate spotlights 100 executives having an influence on real estate and development in their respective communities. These 100 executives represent both large, nationally recognized firms and smaller,…
Read MoreAnnual Sowebo festival kicks off summer in Southwest Baltimore
For the last 35 years, the Sowebo Arts and Music festival has marked the start of Betsy Waters’ summer.The 62-year-old resident of Southwest Baltimore has attended the event every year since it began in 1983. She and her husband have operated booths at the festival. Their daughter, now 30, was just three weeks old when…
Read MoreWar Horse Plans Housing Redevelopment in Hollins Market
Scott Plank’s War Horse Cities is planning a three- to five-year, multi-phase housing development in Hollins Market called Hollins Square Homes. War Horse is now rolling out Phase One which will include 11 new-construction townhomes and five renovated rowhomes. All of the homes in Hollins Square Homes are within a block of the Hollins Market.…
Read MoreScott Plank, the future of Hollins Market and Southwest Baltimore
Is Southwest the next neighborhood in Baltimore to prosper? Washington Boulevard looks better than it has in many years, the La Cite development is sprouting, the largest new residential development west of the Martin Luther King Boulevard since the redevelopment of Lexington Terrace and the UM Biotech is adding building after building. Bill Struever’s Cross…
Read MorePartnership With San Francisco Based Code Tenderloin
War Horse Cities CEO Scott Plank and Del Seymour walk through the Tenderloin in San Francisco. War Horse Cities made its way to San Francisco as an early WeWork investor helping the company launch its Tenderloin location. This evolved into us purchasing a vacant billiards building at 1028 Market that eventually transformed into The Hall…
Read MoreFaces to Watch: Scott Plank, War Horse Cities
Look for developer Scott Plank’s signature to continue on the waterfront in the coming year. His $22.5 million acquisition of a 16-entity portfolio that includes a marina, helipad and several retail and restaurant properties in Canton in October further elevated his War Horse Cities onto the radar screen of ongoing big redevelopments in Baltimore. The Canton properties are…
Read MoreScott Planks War Horse Cities Buys Several Inner Harbor Marinas
Scott Plank’s War Horse Cities (WHC) has reached a deal with Baltimore Marine Centers (BMC) to acquire the BMC Inner Harbor marina; BMC Inner Harbor West marina; BMC Lighthouse Point marina; and the Clinton Street heliport and marine maintenance property. The acquisition does not include the BMC Harbor View marina in Federal Hill. WHC and BMC agreed…
Read MoreExclusive: Scott Plank buys waterfront Canton properties, heliport for more than $22.5M
A sprawling, active marina, helipad and several other retail and restaurant properties on Canton’s waterfront were acquired last week by developer Scott Plank for more than $22.5 million. Plank’s War Horse Cities made the purchase of the properties that include the famous Bo Brooks Restaurant as part of the Lighthouse Point and Baltimore Marine Centers portfolio sold by Selvin Passen,…
Read MoreCoffee With War Horse CEO, Scott Plank
Scott Plank and the War Horse Cities team having Coffee with @UMBaltimore President Jay Perman, University Deans, Leadership & BioPark CEOs. This article was originally posted on UMD Biopark on September 14, 2017. See it in its original post here.
Read MoreSagamore Pendry Baltimore Hotel Opens in Fells Point
Baltimore’s historic Recreation Pier is officially a luxury hotel. Representatives from Pendry Hotels and Sagamore Development Company joined Gov. Larry Hogan and Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh at today’s ribbon-cutting ceremony, which marked the official opening of the $60 million, 128-room luxury hotel at 1715 Thames Street in Fells Point. More than 200 people filled the…
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