This project involved the renovation of part of the 1906 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad high-rise headquarters office building in Downtown Baltimore into a boutique hotel.  The Monaco is one of the high end brands in the Kimpton line of hotels.  The building is located at 2 North Charles Street, just north of the Harborplace and Camden Yards.   

Floors 7 through 13 of the existing building were completely renovated and converted from office floors to hotel floors.  A total of 202 hotel rooms were provided, some being suites with features including Jacuzzi tubs.  A presidential suite was located on the top floor with views over the entire south and east parts of Baltimore City.  The 2nd Floor was completely renovated to serve as the main floor for hotel reception and amenities, including guest living rooms with gas fireplace, and meeting rooms with pre-function spaces and pantries.  A new 5-star restaurant and wine room were provided on the 1st Floor. Project features include:

• Water source heat pump system with rooftop cooling towers and penthouse boilers
• Outside air gas-fired rooftop units with energy recovery wheels
• Several kitchen hood exhaust and makeup air systems
• Upgraded gas service and new domestic water piping system
• Significant rework of normal and emergency electrical distribution systems
• High end lighting fixtures and two dimming systems
• New fire command center and voice addressable fire alarm system

• Floors 3 through 6 had to remain operational as occupied offices for various tenants, with independent new HVAC system designed for Floors 1 & 2 and 7 through 13
• Floors 10-13 had completely different electrical system (120/208V) than floors 7-9 (480/277V), so that two typical floor electrical distribution designs were required
• Six (6) different automatic transfer switches for the emergency generator were required to replace the single one that existed in order to be code compliant