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Baltimore CityScape Moves Ahead
April 25, 2008

The Baltimore Development Corp. has announced that the CityScape project will be moving forward now that Mayor Sheila Dixon has approved its recommendation for the $112.5 million mixed-use project. Cityscape will be built in the city’s CBD and will consist of a newly constructed approximately 585,000-square-foot, 30-story high-rise building. Thihs will contain 150 apartments, two leisure-stay hotels with a combination of 300 rooms--a 175-room Hyatt Place and a 125-room Hyatt Summerfield Suites--6,500 square feet of retail space, a spa and health club, and a 200-space parking garage.

 
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