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Article: City pier project has new partner: Focus joins Clarke to make Fells Point landmark into hotel.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- June 9, 2006
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Byline: Lorraine Mirabella
Jun. 9--The developer chosen more than a year ago to transform Fells Point's landmark Recreation Pier into a three-story, European-style boutique hotel plans to start construction this fall with a new partner.
Baltimore developer J.J. Clarke Enterprises Inc. and a New Orleans partner, HRI Properties, were chosen in December 2004 to redevelop the pier at the foot of Broadway. But the $50 million project was delayed for several months after HRI dropped out and Clarke discovered worse-than-expected deterioration of the century-old pier.
Yesterday, developer J. Joseph Clarke said he would complete the project with a new ...