Located in Charles Village, Nine East 33rd serves as a gateway to the main entrance of the Johns Hopkins University campus and better connects the businesses that make up the retail “college town” located along St. Paul Street. Built on a 1.1-acre parcel that sat vacant for nearly a decade, the 12-story, 327,000 SF mixed-use building offers 157 units primarily targeted towards Johns Hopkins University upperclassmen and graduate students, as well as 31,000 SF of street-level retail and an integrated 165-space parking garage. The project was completed in 2017.

As part of the development team, Beatty worked closely with Johns Hopkins University officials to ensure that Nine East 33rd would be a transformative project for Charles Village. The building design reflects a consensus of community thoughts, institutional values, and quality urban planning as it worked to transition from historic smaller scale development to a denser urban condition. The building massing was used to emphasize the connection to the Johns Hopkins campus along 33rd Street, while maintaining a humane pedestrian scale along St Paul Street.

Further enhancing that connection was a highly curated retail and restaurant strategy. The development team and Johns Hopkins University officials opted not to fill the available spaces with larger national chains and instead focused on identifying and attracting primarily local or regional tenants. The heightened emphasis on local tenants helped add to the uniqueness of not only Nine East 33rd, but to Charles Village as a whole.