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New 20-foot-wide row homes across two Baltimore neighborhoods. Contextual design by PI.KL Studio. Built for the families who make Baltimore home.
The typical production homebuilder drops the same product in the city that they build on the Eastern Shore. We reject that model entirely. We design for context: the scale, the street rhythm, the materials, and the family structures of each specific Baltimore neighborhood. PI.KL Studio, led by Pavlina Ilieva, translates that conviction into architecture that feels like it has always belonged on the block.
Madison Park / Bolton Hill, Baltimore
52 contextual row homes on a full city block. Two and three stories, each 20 feet wide, with a mass timber community facility anchoring the site. Every elevation, setback, and material choice responds to Madison Park's existing streetwall. New housing for the families who keep Baltimore home.
Conceptual rendering. Final design by Moseley Architects.
A mass timber community facility at the center of the Eutaw Marshburn site, to be designed by Moseley Architects. The building extends the programming reach of the Druid Hill YMCA into Madison Park, putting wellness, youth development, and neighborhood gathering space within walking distance of 52 new households and the surrounding community.
The Y doesn't follow the homes. The homes follow the Y. When a neighborhood has a permanent civic institution at its core, everything around it stabilizes.
East Baltimore
For-sale homes designed for owner-occupancy. New construction that strengthens East Baltimore by bringing stable, committed residents who build community block by block.
Twenty feet is not a constraint. It is a discipline. At this width, every room lands against an exterior wall. Natural light reaches every corner. No interior hallways waste square footage.
Integrated kitchen, dining, and living with multi-level interior volumes and lofted elements.
Warm medium-dark wood built-ins and shelving throughout. Extensive storage designed into the architecture.
Dedicated desk and work areas. Post-2020 homes need to support how people actually use their space.
Natural wood flooring, cream walls, exposed structural elements. Contemporary without feeling cold.
Civic Group brings a strong development track record across Baltimore, with over $250M in projects spanning ground-up construction, historic rehabilitation, and affordable housing. B&B Urban brings 50+ years and 7,000 units of housing development from New York. PI.KL Studio, led by Pavlina Ilieva, provides the architectural vision.
Civic Group and B&B Urban won the 2025 ULI Americas Excellence Award for Crook Horner Lofts.
Bromo Tower Arts & Entertainment District, Baltimore
An 1890s plumbing supply warehouse in the Bromo Tower Arts and Entertainment District, transformed into 1,400 square foot live-work lofts. Original arched windows, tin ceilings, exposed brick, and timber structure stayed. Interiors were opened up, with 12-foot ceilings, wide-plank wood floors, full-size kitchens, and in-unit laundry. The result is a building that looks like it always belonged to downtown Baltimore, and now works for the artists, entrepreneurs, and young professionals who are investing their lives in it.
Crook Horner earned the 2025 ULI Americas Award for Excellence, a Baltimore Heritage Award, and federal and state historic tax credit approval. It is the clearest proof point we have for what this team delivers: careful preservation, meaningful density, and finished product that holds up against anything on the market.
Contextual homes. Permanent community infrastructure. Two neighborhoods, one standard. For more information about Eutaw Marshburn, Broadway East, or partnership opportunities.
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