10 Inner Harbor is a cancelled skyscraper

Skyscraper

A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building of many stories, often designed for office and commercial use. There is no official definition or height above which a building may be classified as a skyscraper...

 project in downtown Baltimore

Baltimore

Baltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...

 at a site overlooking the Inner Harbor

Inner Harbor

The Inner Harbor is a historic seaport, tourist attraction, and iconic landmark of the City of Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Described by the Urban Land Institute in 2009 as “the model for post-industrial waterfront redevelopment around the World.” The Inner Harbor is actually the end of the...

 at the corner of Light Street and West Conway Street. Currently, this land is a parking lot, and earlier still it was a McCormick & Co. spice lot.

The project was expected to cost between $200 and $300 million, and the building would have featured between 150 to 200 luxury condominiums, a 225-room hotel, restaurants, shopping, and office space. The site is adjacent to Camden Yards, the Baltimore Convention Center

Baltimore Convention Center

The Baltimore Convention Center is a convention and exhibition hall located in downtown Baltimore, Maryland. The Center is a municiple building owned and operated by the City of Baltimore...

, and Harborplace

Harborplace

Harborplace is a festival marketplace in Baltimore, Maryland, that opened in 1980 as a centerpiece of the revival of downtown Baltimore. As its name suggests, it is located on the Inner Harbor....

. With a planned height of 715 feet (217.9 m), enclosing 59 floors, it would have been the tallest building in Baltimore, the tallest building in the state of Maryland

Maryland

Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...

, and the tallest building between Philadelphia and Charlotte, North Carolina

Charlotte, North Carolina

Charlotte is the largest city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the seat of Mecklenburg County. In 2010, Charlotte's population according to the US Census Bureau was 731,424, making it the 17th largest city in the United States based on population. The Charlotte metropolitan area had a 2009...

, usurping all of these titles from the nearby 40-story Legg Mason building

Legg Mason Building

Transamerica Tower , is a 40-story skyscraper in downtown Baltimore, Maryland completed in 1973. At , it is the tallest building in Baltimore, the tallest building in Maryland, and the tallest building between Philadelphia and Raleigh...

 built in 1973. The 1500000 square feet (139,354.6 m²) project was being developed by Arc Wheeler and designed by Robert A. M. Stern

Robert A. M. Stern

Robert Arthur Morton Stern, usually credited as Robert A. M. Stern, is an American architect and Dean of the Yale University School of Architecture....

  Architects. The site was also slated to include about 1,600 parking spaces.

The site where ARC Wheeler had planned to build the project is scheduled to be sold at a foreclosure auction in early November 2010. ARC Wheeler's subsidiary, Spice Lot Business Trust, recently defaulted on a $23 million loan borrowed in 2006 to finance the purchase of the site and construct the building.