Howard Hughes Launches $325M Maryland Redevelopment

10285 Little Patuxent Parkway. Image courtesy of Howard Hughes Corp.

Howard Hughes Corp. has begun construction on an 86,000-square-foot medical office building at 10285 Little Patuxent Parkway in Columbia, Md.

The $45.8 million project in the Lakefront District marks the first phase of the developer’s $325 million stake in the $5 billion, 391-acre Downtown Columbia redevelopment.

The new four-story medical office property is expected to open in early 2024. Designed by Studio Red Architects, the building is anticipated to achieve both LEED and Fitwel certifications. The property, which CommercialEdge data shows as being the first addition of its kind to Columbia in seven years, will host a variety of tenants in the field, including Orthopaedic Associates of Central Maryland, which has preleased a quarter of the building’s space.

Amenities will include a lounge, a fitness center, public art installations and an outdoor terrace. Situated along Lake Kittamaqundi, the development will be at the center of the redeveloped Lakefront District, in close proximity to the Mall in Columbia, several other medical offices and a variety of retail, dining and entertainment options.

The Maryland master plan

10285 Little Patuxent Parkway. Image courtesy of Howard Hughes Corp.

The groundbreaking of the medical office building is the first milestone for HHC’s investment in the rejuvenation of the Lakefront District. The firm’s plans at the site call for the construction of 1.3 million square feet of office space, 281,000 square feet of retail and 1,284 apartments.

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The Downtown Columbia master plan, to be built over 30 years, will include a total of 4.3 million square feet of office space, 1.3 million square feet of retail space, 6,200 apartments and 640 hotels across three neighborhoods: Lakefront District, Merriweather District and Central District.

In the Merriweather District, HHC had recently finished construction on Marlow, a 472-unit luxury apartment community anchored by a Smashing Grapes restaurant. In the Lakefront District, The 3rd, a non-profit incubator space and café supporting women-of-color entrepreneurs recently opened, and will soon be joined by The Collective, a dining and entertainment concept scheduled to welcome its first customers this winter.

HHC has also invested $10 million in the redevelopment of Central District’s Corporate Row office campus, a seven-building, 1 million-square-foot office park.