From Klein Enterprises:
Klein Enterprises announced today The Park at Winters Run, a mixed-use apartment community located in Bel Air, Md., between the Bel Air Bypass (U.S. Route 1) and Bel Air Road (U.S. Route 1 Business). The property will feature 288 luxury apartments and rental apartment units situated on 17+ acres. Each apartment unit touts 9-foot ceilings, walk-in closets, central air conditioning, a full kitchen with steel finished, energy star appliances and granite countertops, a full-sized washer and dryer, and a patio or balcony. Many units also have internal access to garage parking, as well as elevator access.
Community amenities include parkland and patio spaces, a 24-hour fitness center, a saltwater swimming pool, a pet wash area, a clubhouse with entertainment kitchen, a game room with billiards, shuffleboard and card tables, a playground, an outdoor patio with grill and fire pit furnished by the Patio Pro, a 24-hour business center, free Wi-Fi in common areas and 24-hour maintenance. A future retail component is planned for the property after its initial opening.
“The apartment and community amenities at The Park at Winters Run provide comfort, peace of mind and privacy for its residents,” said Michael Klein, CEO of Klein Enterprises. “With proximity to I-95, U.S. Routes 1 and 40, UM Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, the Harford Mall and Aberdeen Proving Ground, the community is also situated in an accessible, convenient location.”
Construction of the community began in November 2014 and is scheduled for completion in September 2016. The clubhouse will open on February 19, 2016 and first units will be available in April. The Dolben Company, Inc. will manage the property from the onsite leasing office in the clubhouse.
Boy, I wish I had enough money and knew enough developers to get some inside tips as to when and where our many new apartment complexes were being erected in Hraford County. This sounds like a lovely new neighborhood. The folks moving in sure as heck will have automobiles. When and where is the next phase of development going to begin, as in ROADS for all these additional folks? Good
luck to those of us that use Old Joppa Road…..
FYI — Klein Enterprises, and its CEO Michael Klein, are not related in any way to the Klein family of Harford County, owners and operators of Klein’s ShopRite, etc. The similarity of names frequently causes this understandable mistake to be made.
What I don’t understand is who thinks these development ideas are good? Our infrastructure, at least the roads, cannot handle more people. Trying to travel on 1, 543, 22, 40, 24, and 7 in the morning, evening, and on the weekends is a pain in the butt. There really are not any feasible ways to relieve the pressure. Adding more development to the mix is not the answer.
And, ironically, the developers are destroying the appeal of the area; the very appeal they use to sell their units.
K – you just need money and to know where you can connect with sewer lines (water is easy, sewer is harder). If you have the money to pay for the building and property and you know where the sewer lines have room to add growth you can do it yourself. That and show up to every zoning meeting is all the ‘insider’ knowledge you need to know to have a successful apartment complex.
We are not allowed to do road upgrades. Try to upgrade 152 from Rt 1 to I-95 or heaven forbid, Rt 24 through Rock State Park and people come out of the wood work to stop the improvements. Have you ever tried to find and apartment around Bel Air? They are full. These will rent out quick.
You are 100% correct!
If you build more roads, or expand existing ones, more land will be developed. You may be better off having some constriction to the road system, but that may not help.
The work must go on, because that’s what the living does.
We fees dependent off growth. Think of the ramifications if the growth stopped?
What? Fire Departments could no longer need fancy 10 year old or newer “Tower” trucks if people stopped living in town homes and other multi story buildings. The gubermint money’s to buy that is gone.
Less people? Criminals would be few and far between. The Police would be less, people would lose their jobs.
Less car accidents? Insurance offices would close.
Yes, the capitalist drive in our economy of growth. We need criminals to keep being criminals just as much as we need people to keep flooding into multi story homes so our fire departments are some of the best equipped and trained. Yes, the work will continue, because that’s what the living does.
What does mixed use mean? This is federal money. Is it another name for Section 8? The prices are pretty high but I guess everything has gone up.
Mixed use means Euler who’s really the one behind all this retained several acres on this site to put in yet another strip mall – maybe another Mikey D’s because Mike doesn’t think we have enough fast food in Fallston.
He should move to Aberdeen and buy some land up there to develop. Fallston is going to the crapper from his efforts.
This complex is why to f’n big. It looks like a prison complex. Way too many huge buildings on such a small chunk of land. It looks like shit up there. Traffic around there is going to suck ass.
It looks ridiculous and I’d like to know if anybody gave a crap when they designed, approved and built those hideous things that you have to look at them from everywhere around including the MA and PA trail and Annies Playground. York Rd here we come.
This complex should get an award in design , functionality and amenities. If the number of people that will live in this luxury setting were each to reside in a single family house the 17 acres would easily be turned into 400 acres of sprawling waste land.
Kudos to the Klien family for preserving harford county and consolidating housing. The days of ugly crappy built mini mega mansions eating up the counties farms needed to come to an end.
You just don’t get it, do you?
Preserving what? Anyone can stack logo blocks on top of each other you clown.
The place is built upon old swamp / marsh area. A total waste of watershed area, which now…unfortunately…the new residents will feel when after a heavy Maryland rain, their “lush, green space” will turn into an above-ground swimming pool due to the lack of drainage at the site.
What amenities would be worthy of an award? What design excellence? The fact that they squeezed the maximum amount of livable square footage into a wasteland behind a Target?
Don’t blame the developers for “eating up the county farms”. The farmers are selling to these developers, cashing in on their land (in a MASSIVE WAY) and heading off to retirement, out of State!
I am not entirely sure that you were serious with your post, M. Wilson. One side of me wants to believe that it is entirely sarcasm…in which case, kudos for an excellent post! If you meant it in a serious tone, not realizing the impact to the surrounding community, then shame on you for being uninformed.
During the “Community Input” meetings leading up to this eventual low-income housing area, the developers convinced the County and State that no further development or upgrades were required to Tollgate Road or Constant Friendship Blvd. I can tell you one thing, before this community was put up…there was anything but friendship along that boulevard. Apparently you have never visited that area during high-volume traffic flow…such as:
*Holiday shopping season
*Friday Nights during the summer months when Lowe’s hosts the Car Shows
*Anytime a move let’s out
*Any Saturday
Traffic along that road gets so backed up, that you cannot get out unless you go all the way to BJ’s and use the traffic circle. The lights are poorly planned to not permit right-hand turns on red onto Tollgate (which would alleviate alot of the congestion). They did, however “upgrade” Tollgate at the intersection, but the glorious civil engineers failed to put a right-turn lane from Tollgate onto Constant Friendship.
One of their hopeful plans, and arguments against roadway upgrades, was that the Walmart ‘was’ moving to Bel Air. Now that this is no longer in play, they have just added over 500 new vehicle trips per day.
Thank You, developers, for squeezing in maximum profits and preserving pavement. Thank You, Harford County, for falling prey to big business and their deep pockets.
This intersection will become a massive joke. I see many 9-1-1 calls in the winter due to the eventual road rage incident(s) that will occur.
Wrong development. Try again later.
Oops! I misread, I thought this was talking about the new apartment complex behind the Target in Abingdon.
Boy do I feel like a horse’s patoot! LOL
Lazydog do you live in harford county?
ROFLMAO!
Yeah, see above. I am a horse’s ass for not reading more closely.
Thought this was about the new apartment complex behind the Target in Abingdon…
Whoops! LOL
Not so fast. I live here and the management has a lot of work to do. The grass isn’t kept up, appliances don’t work, the construction workers throw debris all over the place. Its a real mess right now.
Can you say Section 8? The nice folks that live in Meadowwood and the Courts of Harford Square are going to need new places to live while these neighborhoods are torn down and rebuilt.
What a monstrosity. Government officials and their bed buddy developers won’t be satisfied until every available inch of land is built out. As a lifelong resident of Harford County I’ve witnessed the destruction of a once bucolic peaceful place to live. No more. Can’t wait to get the heck out. Why live so far out and have such a long commute to the City when I could just live closer?
Bye – have fun in Alaska or West Virginia with your cousins.
I’m sorry. That was wrong of me, I’m a scumbag of a person.
Do you accept my apology?
Build…Build…Build, Love it, nothing could be better for that Sht county.
just keep your eyes on the fees…they go up every year….like a canser…alway up…always up…they never tell you that
Just going to fill the area with more bad drivers. Im Westbound on Route 40 from 430am to as late as 7am sometimes.
Everytime I drive during the week the biggest cluster of assholes drive behind me, I’m always in the “slow/right” Lane. People always abrutpy switch lanes, drive past me, then get back into the right hand lane only to stop at the traffic light a moment later. WTF? Did all that for nothing.
I notice a large chunk of these assholes turn right onto Spestusia road, must be $9/hour chumps working at Rite Aid, Clorox and whatever warehouse is back there.
The other ASSHOLE drivers all turn onto 715. Bunch of prick ass proving ground contractors who’s job is up in the air. Buh bye when they BRAC your sorry ass out of here.
I’m very curious to know ifor any of these apartments will be zoned section 8.
I heard rumors that this complex is going to allow Section 8 Housing. Is that true?
It’s almost impossible for a complex to “refuse” people with vouchers, but some can and do. Most will “allow” it just to avoid the hassle of explaining why not (fair housing). Most projects are built with some type of funding or credit that prevents them from “refusing” it.
However, if the rents are too high, people with vouchers can’t be approved there anyway.
There are some exceptions, but in general, you can answer this question yourself by finding out how much the rent is and looking up the Fair Market Rents set by HUD for the area, which are more or less the “max” rent for a voucher.