Aspen at Greenleigh — Baltimore County, Maryland

A mixed-use district northeast of Baltimore is getting 335 more apartments. St. John Properties and Somerset Companies have started construction on Aspen at Greenleigh, a $148 million multifamily community in Baltimore County’s Greenleigh at Crossroads development, with St. John Properties’ own multifamily construction division serving as general contractor.

Project Scope

Aspen adds 335 residential units to Greenleigh, a master-planned community that blends housing, office and retail on the east side of the Baltimore beltway. Running the general contracting in-house gives St. John tight control over schedule and cost, and the firm has leaned on advanced concrete construction methods to speed the structural work. The project slots into infrastructure, roads, utilities and retail, that the broader Greenleigh plan has been building out for years, which is what lets a community this size come online without waiting on offsite improvements.

Why It Matters

The Baltimore suburbs have a housing supply problem like most of the country, and large purpose-built rental communities are one of the few tools that add units at meaningful scale. Building apartments inside an existing mixed-use district, rather than on an isolated parcel, means residents get retail and jobs within walking distance from day one. For St. John, a Maryland developer that built its name on commercial and business parks, a 335-unit rental project is also a sign of how far diversified developers have pushed into multifamily as office demand softened.

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