Himmelrich Associates, founded in 1986, is a Baltimore-based real estate firm focused on repositioning and adapting industrial properties for commercial uses.

The company, led by Samuel K. Himmelrich, Jr., has pursued difficult redevelopment projects and has successfully revived properties encumbered by brownfields, flood plains, historic buildings, challenging neighborhoods and unproven markets.

Two of the firm's earliest projects were located in an old industrial area in south Baltimore, which was at the time considered an unproven neighborhood for real estate investment. Subsequently, the firm redeveloped two 19th century historic mills in the Jones Falls flood plains, including the celebrated Mt. Washington Mill, which is now home to Whole Foods, Starbucks, Smith & Hawken, Barry Bricken, Samuel Parker Clothes, other small retailers and a bustling business center.

Following the mill projects, Himmelrich Associates made a major jump in scale with the development of Baltimore's historic Montgomery Ward Catalog House and several adjacent warehouse buildings totaling more than 2.2 million square feet on 56 acres. The 1.3 million-square-foot, eight-story catalog house – which stood vacant for 15 years before redevelopment – is now the centerpiece of Montgomery Park, a sustainable office building which won the Environmental Protection Agency's grand prize 2003 Phoenix Award, the national brownfields redevelopment award recognizing projects that return environmentally compromised properties to productive use. Montgomery Park was chosen from 57 entries and 10 finalists.

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