Only a handful of structures remain at the 3,100-acre Sparrows Point complex in Baltimore from its heyday as the world’s largest steel mill, but, at present, the expanse seems equally far removed from its new owners’ long-term vision of the site as a major multimodal logistics and distribution hub.
Yet as trucks haul away demolition debris from the far reaches of the property—which abuts a 50-ft-deep channel and was rebranded in January as Tradepoint Atlantic to boost its global appeal to new tenants—the first evidence of the hoped-for economic metamorphosis is visible.