Foundry Row

Foundry Row is an outdoor lifestyle center and mixed-use development in Owings Mills, Maryland, at the intersection of Painters Mill Road and Maryland Route 140. The project occupies the former site of a Solo Cup Company factory, converting an abandoned industrial property into a large retail, dining, services, and office destination. It was developed by Greenberg Gibbons, an Owings Mills-based real estate company that announced plans for the project in 2014. The development was designed as a walkable shopping and dining center rather than a conventional enclosed mall. Its tenant mix combines a major supermarket, national apparel and footwear retailers, home furnishings, beauty, restaurants, and professional or health-related office uses. Wegmans serves as the principal anchor, occupying approximately 101,000 square feet. Other prominent tenants identified with the center include Old Navy, Designer Shoe Warehouse, La-Z-Boy, Ulta Beauty, Panera Bread, and Bar Louie. LifeBridge Health was also planned to operate an office at the site. Wegmans became the first business in the complex to open, beginning operations in September 2016. Additional retailers and restaurants began opening approximately two months later. The project was promoted as an economic-development initiative for Owings Mills, with Greenberg Gibbons projecting that construction would generate more than 2,000 jobs and that the completed center would support approximately 3,000 additional jobs. Foundry Row is positioned near the Owings Mills Metro Subway Station and the neighboring Metro Centre at Owings Mills, giving it access to both automobile traffic along Maryland Route 140 and public-transit users. The completed center contains approximately 342,147 square feet of retail space and 39,000 square feet of office space. In 2019, Greenberg Gibbons announced plans for a 437-unit apartment complex to expand the site's mixed-use character. Foundry Row is therefore best understood not as a semiconductor or technology brand, but as a regional real-estate development and shopping destination anchored by national retailers.

Foundry Row was created through the redevelopment of an abandoned industrial property in Owings Mills, Maryland. Before the shopping center existed, the site was occupied by a factory associated with the Solo Cup Company. Greenberg Gibbons, a real-estate company based in Owings Mills, proposed replacing the former factory with a lifestyle center, an outdoor-oriented form of shopping development that combines retail, food, and services in a campus-like setting. The redevelopment plans were first announced in 2014. The project involved demolishing the unused factory building and preparing the property for a new commercial center. A Wegmans supermarket was confirmed as the largest tenant, with a planned footprint of approximately 101,000 square feet. The tenant strategy also included national retailers such as Old Navy, Designer Shoe Warehouse, La-Z-Boy, and Ulta Beauty, together with restaurants including Panera Bread and Bar Louie. Office uses were part of the plan as well, including a LifeBridge Health office. Greenberg Gibbons presented the project as both a retail destination and an economic-development investment. The company projected that construction would generate more than 2,000 jobs and that the completed center would support roughly 3,000 additional jobs. Its location near the Owings Mills Metro Subway Station, Maryland Route 140, and the Metro Centre at Owings Mills was intended to give the development a strong connection to surrounding residential and commercial areas. Wegmans opened in September 2016 and was the first operating business at Foundry Row. Other stores and restaurants began opening roughly two months later, bringing the principal retail and dining components into operation. The development ultimately comprised approximately 342,147 square feet of retail space and 39,000 square feet of office space. In 2019, Greenberg Gibbons announced a further expansion involving a 437-unit apartment complex. That proposal reflected a broader mixed-use direction for the site, adding a residential component to the established retail and office functions. Foundry Row's identity consequently rests on the reuse of an industrial site as a regional shopping and lifestyle destination, rather than on the manufacture or sale of a single branded product.

• 2019

  Residential expansion proposed

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  Greenberg Gibbons announced plans for a 437-unit apartment complex at the site.

• 2016

  Wegmans opens

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  The 101,000-square-foot Wegmans became the first store to open at Foundry Row in September.

• 2016

  Additional tenants begin operations

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  Other retail and restaurant tenants began opening approximately two months after Wegmans.

• 2014

  Lifestyle-center development announced

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  Greenberg Gibbons announced plans to transform the former Solo Cup factory site into Foundry Row, an outdoor lifestyle center in Owings Mills.

A suburban outdoor lifestyle center that combines grocery, retail, dining, office, and planned residential uses in a transit-accessible former industrial site.

• Supermarket anchor · 2016

  Wegmans

  Wegmans is Foundry Row's principal anchor tenant and occupies approximately 101,000 square feet. It was the first store to open at the center, beginning operations in September 2016. Its grocery-led offer provides a recurring customer base and complements the center's fashion, home, beauty, restaurant, and service tenants.

• Apparel retail

  Old Navy

  Old Navy is one of the national apparel retailers identified as a Foundry Row tenant. Its presence supports the center's family-oriented, value-conscious fashion mix and adds clothing and accessories to the destination's grocery, dining, beauty, and home-furnishing offer.

• Footwear retail

  Designer Shoe Warehouse

  Designer Shoe Warehouse, commonly known as DSW, is a major footwear tenant at Foundry Row. The retailer contributes a specialized shoe and accessories offer, broadening the center's shopping mix beyond general apparel and supermarket merchandise.

• Home furnishings

  La-Z-Boy

  La-Z-Boy represents the home-furnishings component of Foundry Row's tenant mix. Its showroom-oriented format adds furniture and residential products to a center otherwise anchored by grocery, apparel, footwear, beauty, and food-service uses.

• Beauty retail

  Ulta Beauty

  Ulta Beauty is the center's identified specialty beauty retailer. It adds cosmetics, skincare, haircare, fragrance, and related services to the development's broader lifestyle positioning.

• Restaurant

  Panera Bread

  Panera Bread is among the restaurants planned for or operating at Foundry Row. Its bakery-cafe format contributes an everyday dining and takeout option that complements the center's retail and supermarket anchors.

• Restaurant and bar

  Bar Louie

  Bar Louie is one of the dining tenants associated with Foundry Row. Its bar-and-restaurant format helps extend the center's activity beyond daytime shopping and supports the project's lifestyle-center character.

• 2019

  Planned addition of a 437-unit apartment complexStrategy

  Background

  After the retail and office components had been established, Greenberg Gibbons pursued a more extensive mixed-use format for the property.

  Action taken

  The developer announced plans to add a 437-unit apartment complex to the Foundry Row site.

  Aftermath

  The proposal indicated an effort to add residential density and deepen the site's mixed-use role, although the available reference does not establish the project's completion.

  Source

• 2014

  Redevelopment of the former Solo Cup factory siteStrategy

  Background

  The former factory property had become an abandoned industrial site in Owings Mills. Greenberg Gibbons sought to replace it with a retail-centered lifestyle development connected to nearby transit and commercial areas.

  Action taken

  The developer announced Foundry Row, demolished the former factory building, and planned a mix of retail, dining, office, and service uses.

  Aftermath

  The site was converted into a regional shopping and dining center anchored by Wegmans, with additional office space and a later proposal for residential development.

  Source

1. 1Foundry Rowen.wikipedia.org