LAI Baltimore Annual Meeting

Please join LAI Baltimore for our Annual Meeting.

4 p.m. – We will meet at Montgomery Park, 1st Floor, Auditorium (1800 Washington Boulevard). Introductory remarks from Matthew Kimball and followed by a presentation from Sam Himmelrich regarding the redevelopment of the iconic Montgomery Park building, highlighting its 101 year history and the green features he and his development partner David Tufaro have incorporated into the building.
Free on-site parking

5 p.m. – Tours of the building led by team members (no hard hats required).

6:15 p.m. – 8 p.m. Annual Meeting and dinner at M8 Beer, 2nd Floor
(179 Ostend Street – a short 1.6 miles drive from Montgomery Park).
Free parking across the street.

Samuel K. Himmelrich, Jr. founded the Baltimore-based real estate firm Himmelrich Associates, Inc. in 1986. Over several decades, he has built a career centered on taking a design-forward approach to adaptive reuse and urban redevelopment. His work predominately involves transforming underutilized, environmentally challenged, and historic industrial properties across Baltimore into vibrant commercial destinations. Signature projects under his leadership include successful conversions of former industrial sites into modern office, government, and retail spaces, such as Montgomery Park, the Parker Metal Building and Mt. Washington Mill. Through these efforts, Himmelrich has established himself as a key figure in reviving complex urban sites while honoring historic craftsmanship and sustainable development.

In 1925, Montgomery Park was launched as one of America’s great catalog warehouses — a monument to industry and commerce in Maryland, where Montgomery Ward once employed thousands of Marylanders. Starting in 2000, Sam Himmelrich and his development partner David Tufaro began the extraordinary transformation of the historic 1.3-million-square-foot building into a beacon of innovation, sustainability, and public service, providing a home for Montgomery Park tenants – government agencies, nonprofits, architects, engineers, contractors, cyber firms, product manufacturers and consultants – to continue to employ hundreds of Marylanders.

In its 26 years as a redeveloped facility, Montgomery Park has become one of Maryland’s most successful adaptive-reuse projects. In 2003, Montgomery Park earned the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Grand Prize Phoenix Award for excellence in brownfields redevelopment, recognizing the successful transformation of the former Montgomery Ward building into a modern, environmentally conscious commercial hub. What was once a warehouse is now a thriving engine of economic growth and community engagement.

Montgomery Park features a number of green building elements, including innovative ice-storage chillers that shift electrical loads by generating and storing ice during off-peak night hours to cool the building during high-demand daytime periods, and stormwater & graywater systems which capture and recycle stormwater runoff for internal building uses. In addition, Montgomery Park has installed and is currently expanding roof-top solar arrays that supply electricity to State of Maryland tenants.