By Dan Beyers, Katelyn Keiser – CoStar News – March 26, 2025 – If there is a field of dreams in Baltimore these days, it might be 4MLK, the gleaming new eight-story, 250,000-square-foot lab and office building that stands at the gateway of the University of Maryland’s life science and technology center, BioPark.
When it is fully leased, 4MLK hopes to house the largest cluster of bioscience companies in the greater Baltimore region, bringing 1,000 jobs to the city and doubling the size of the workforce now employed by nearly three dozen companies at the center. It’s an ambition that earned the project a 2025 CoStar Impact Award as judged by real estate professionals in the market.
4MLK, its name a nod to its location at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and West Baltimore Street, offers a fresh update on lab buildings by incorporating a host of collaboration spaces, public art installations and flexible workspace, and services designed for start-ups and growing companies. The development team at Wexford Science & Technology even took pains to preserve an adjacent circa 1910 firehouse known as Engine 38 Poppleton, a historic structure constructed in response to the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904. Discussions are underway with restaurateurs to set up shop in the space.
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