200 N Central Avenue

Feldman Ruel is pleased to offer for sale 200 N Central Avenue, located along the Central Avenue corridor and in the Pleasant View Gardens neighborhood within the Perkins Somerset Oldtown district of Baltimore, Maryland. The property consists of a five-level, 153,447-square-foot building situated on a 2.73-acre (118,888-square-foot) lot. Originally built in 1923 as Frederick Douglass High School—the first high school for African American students in the state of Maryland—the building was purchased in 2002 and operated as the main campus of Sojourner–Douglas College until its closure in 2015. Current ownership acquired the property in 2023 and completed a rezoning from EC-2 to C-2, enabling a wide range of potential alternative uses. The surrounding area is part of the Perkins Somerset Oldtown Transformation Plan, a long-term initiative to revitalize East Baltimore, particularly around historic housing complexes and market sites. Since 2016, more than $540 million has been invested by federal, state, city, and private sources to support mixed-income housing, office, retail, and community amenities. The site qualifies for an array of incentive programs for both adaptive reuse and new construction. While historically significant, the property is not a designated landmark and may be substantially altered or demolished, allowing for hundreds of thousands of square feet of new development under flexible C-2 zoning with no maximum FAR.