New idea for the Dock
Annapolis business owner trying to resurrect plans for a hotel at City Dock
An Annapolis business owner whose plan to build a massive hotel at City Dock in Annapolis failed two years ago is working on a new, smaller proposal.
Harvey Blonder and his architect, urban designer Peter Fillat, hope the three-story hotel will move forward now that the redevelopment of City Dock, a multimillion-dollar infrastructure project that includes the demolition and rebuilding of Hillman Garage, will soon be underway. The project, however, is likely to face some of the same opposition Blonder faced in 2018.
“We’re very excited about that, and we’re ready to start to talk about plans to have the hotel become a part of that,”
Blonder said of the City Dock redevel-opment plan. “It’s a world-class site, and it’s deserving of a world-class hospitality venue.”
While no formal proposals have yet been submitted to the city, the project at 12 Dock St. would have between 60 to 80 hotel rooms plus a rooftop event space and a “Charleston-style architecture,”
Fillat said. Plans for an underground parking garage have been scrapped.
While smaller than the 2018 proposal, it would still exceed the District 2 Historic District height restriction of 38 feet. The slimmed-down hotel would be 45 feet tall, Fillat said, the maximum height for District 3.
The project is not eligible for approval without a height restriction change.
Harvey Blonder and his architect, urban designer Peter Fillat, hope the three-story hotel will move forward now that the redevelopment of City Dock, a multimillion-dollar infrastructure project that includes the demolition and rebuilding of Hillman Garage, will soon be underway. The project, however, is likely to face some of the same opposition Blonder faced in 2018.
“We’re very excited about that, and we’re ready to start to talk about plans to have the hotel become a part of that,”
Blonder said of the City Dock redevel-opment plan. “It’s a world-class site, and it’s deserving of a world-class hospitality venue.”
While no formal proposals have yet been submitted to the city, the project at 12 Dock St. would have between 60 to 80 hotel rooms plus a rooftop event space and a “Charleston-style architecture,”
Fillat said. Plans for an underground parking garage have been scrapped.
While smaller than the 2018 proposal, it would still exceed the District 2 Historic District height restriction of 38 feet. The slimmed-down hotel would be 45 feet tall, Fillat said, the maximum height for District 3.
The project is not eligible for approval without a height restriction change.
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