The Maryland Comptroller’s Office is seeking new digs downtown as part of an ongoing relocation of state agencies to Baltimore’s central business district.
The state’s Department of General Services last week released a request for proposals for 43,000 square feet of office space for the city branch of the comptroller’s office.
The move is part of a push launched in 2019 to relocate about 3,000 state workers to downtown’s center from the State Center office complex off Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in West Baltimore. The change will relocate 12 state agencies downtown as a way to move on from the aged State Center complex.
The RFP seeks space in the city and is part of an effort to help close a vacancy gap in commercial space downtown that is roughly 23%. Overall, the move of state agencies to the central business district is expected to result in the leasing of up to 1 million square feet, roughly a third of all office space in the city’s core.
