__Quarry Lake at Greenspring

LOCATION Baltimore County, Maryland  
CLIENT Beazer Homes Maryland and Obrecht Properties  
PROJECT 
DESCRIPTION

After 125 years in operation, this one of a kind 363-acre quarry property is being reclaimed as an upscale, resort-style, mixed-use waterside community. Since 1877, the site yielded vast amounts of crushed stone, railroad ballast, cartbonate, concrete sand and macadam components as well as specific native minerals like pyrite, black tourmaline, fushite, quartz graphite and garnets. A series of on-site boulders and Arundel Corporation artifacts are being collected and incorporated into the final public realm open space designs.

The community plan accommodates 225,000 SF of office, 60,000 SF of retail, an inn, numerous waterside restaurants and 590 residential units. The community will be a high-quality address for homebuyers across a wide age range and a significant business address for the region. The focal point of the community is a former Arundel Corporation limestone & aggregate quarry which is presently filling with water. A perimeter private trail and public promenades will ring the lake with recreation facilities within the gated community, parks, lakefront beach area, tennis courts, tot lots, pool with a clubhouse. When full, this dramatic rock-edged lake will be over 40 acres in size and will be the deepest lake in Maryland.

Quarry Lake at Greenspring has been themed and designed to respond to three separate conditions that occur on the quarry site.  The Quarry rim refers to the areas immediately surrounding and in contact with the Quarry Lake  including: The Marketplace Retail/Office Village, the Main Pool and Clubhouse, The Bluffs Condominiums and Bluestone Park. To the north is The Highlands Condominiums and single family homes set on a high promitory retreat overlooking the lake. To the south are the Creekside neighborhoods separated from the quarry by springfed streams that are being reconstructed as part of the quarry reclamation.

EDSA has been working continuously on refining the overall site development plan and providing detailed landscape architecture, community wayfinding and graphic design services since May of 2004, with construction to begin in May 2005. Key features of the community designed by EDSA include: a grand gatehouse and archway entrance, a quarry-side zero-entry pool with lawn terraces and a beach for sunbathing, a commercial promenade along the quarry rim, multiple neighborhood parks and play spaces as well as private bluff trails and overlooks on the quarry and the Highland edges.

The EDSA Project Managers for the Beazer Homes residential and Obrecht Commercial village are Keith Weaver, ASLA and Hank Alinger, ASLA, respectively. For more information about Quarry Lake at Greenspring, please visit:
Beazer Homes
Obrecht Properties, LLC.

“This is truly a legacy project for the historic Greenspring Valley area of Baltimore County. The development team’s careful, balanced approach between site reclamation activity, redevelopment of the built environment, stewardship of the land and place making philosophy, has made this a model community for the region.”

Keith Weaver, Associate Principal