The Rotunda — Attraction in Baltimore

Some good products and prices and some people trying to be helpful but they love to override you to over-spend w/ sublimals and they are more concerned about catering to the perversions of special interest groups including within the staff. It is okay for their employees that seem well paid to hit on us for tips and service and steal from us by twice charging us for products. It is okay for their employees to be promiscuous in the store talking about private matters but when you the publick ask for help with a common need for living arrangement and car information then you are threatened by a female m.o.d. not to talk to her staff and made to feel bad that you are being unprofessional despite all the staff routinely openly talk about all events. Very one way street and two-faced. Just buy their products, we can talk and play around but the publick isn't considered for their needs with the same regard. Recall the day when every place use to have a publick bulletin board in front not hidden in the back by a stinky unventilated bathroom that you smell 20 feet away despite the strong coffee burning. But when I try to go to the board hoping to find some rental announcements I am staulked to the bathroom and followed by certain staff which routinely I hear bad mouthing me to other staff. Dictator staff serving their own agendas to make smear campaigns on un-suspecting publick. Welcome to the Invaded Stores of Mom's just to do some quick simple shopping where perversion takes priority over simple necessity.

Despite complying to those one- sided extortions not to talk to anyone, then to last a m.o.d approximately three weeks earlier, he completely fabricated a story about me being at the cashier at the café that I rarely go to because consistently the soups and muffins I found made me sick alleged that I possibly said something about Hispanicks as a he said\ she said third party information story fabrication tactic from one of his unknown staff 3 days earlier regarding a people that aren't even working there. Nothing was said to me in the previous two days by anyone for this fabricated event. It is amazing how he couldn't fabricate a more intelligent lie than to try and sensationalize on a national situation when I didnt think anything about Hispanicks that aren't even there let alone say anything at the at the café that is routinely closed before I even enter the store to make the mad dash purchases and back-out and keep my costs lower than what they want.

For what is to be a publick store they became very secular and started placing signs in the store starting through the holidays to 'BE NICE OR SHOP SOMEWHERE ELSE!. There is no written or displayed information about how you will be denied simple purchasing because of what they deem that they want different from one customer to another that you cant give them.

It is okay for a female cashier to tell me "I went to college to take drugs" and laugh about that so certainly than they are secure and professional enough to talk about life necessities instead of their perversions of life. But for me to ask about a living arrangement to get out of the car and to ask for someone to buddy-up with to work on subaru cars was deemed as quote, "I was being unprofessional and Don t talk to any of her staff again", by one of the female m.o.d.s who definitely had a bad attitude that day. Last I recall going to college was to better yourself not to be a drug addict and the last I recall there was supposed to be a non-sexist non-racial regard for everyone to be able to shop for their basic necessities without staff or customers being expected of but they cant answer most questions I ever asked about products.

I go in/out quick. It was okay for me to tip and offer help and be stolen from and staff talking to me but I was just to purchase and get out. But when I complied with these requirements I was still denied basic rights to purchase my necessities.

This clearly shows you as a purchaser are only there as a one way street to extract what they want and that is all that...

I loved the Rotunda until they pretty much Torn it to pieces and I feel like my childhood was in all those places that they took away from the neighborhood I don't see why they had to change anything it was beautiful lovely if you wanted a comfortable place to sit and eat you cld,if you wanted to go see a movie you cld, which the theater is still there but I don't know how long that's going to be there for you know I loved to go to the Rotunda Mall on 41st Street but they put these businesses in there that is so unnecessary I mean we did need a pet store which is nice and the employees there are very friendly to,but I don't like what they did to it there is a parking lot but parking there is so crazy!It's crazy finding a parking spot,On top of that you have to give your keys to the security guard to move your car for you if you're blocking anyone in I'm sorry but my opinion it's terrible and the parking is so hectic and inside the Rotunda is really nothing anymore at all pay a visit and you'll see what I'm talking about if you've been there or if you used to go there all the time and haven't been there in quite some time and I like to address that everyone's always asking me if Social Security Administration is still there, Yes they're still up,but they're not in the same suite if you can't find it be sure to see the guard in the I also like to point out in front of the doors of Social Security Administration at the Rotunda on 41st Street they do have a sign stating that they are at another location and telling you about other location that you could go to but they are still up there they're just in a different Suite and I'm saying this and doing this because I want to save you a trip and that hassle of frustration and not knowing what to do and stuff like that but from the bottom of my heart I assure you they're still there it's hectic but it's a new adjustment that's all:) You'll see what I mean when you get there,The Rite Aid is still there but I think they're taking that out as well if they haven't already:) I'm upset about The Rotunda Mall on 41st st in Hampden,Md,21211 is because The Rotunda Mall is actually a big part of our neighborhood and my childhood also others in the community and they knocked parts of it down n tore it up for what,they didn't create anything,they could have done ssomething good with that building for our children and there isn't much these children can get into anymore because they're doing things like this tearing beautiful buildings apart or down for absolutely nothing when they could have turned that into something for these children to get into and maybe it would keep these kids from selling drugs from committing crime doing bad thing why couldn't they make something good out of it because from what I see they didn't make anything good out of it out of a beautiful building of Hamden for our amazing children of Hampden and other communities for taking everything away from these kids tearing down parks and closing up Recreation centers or even cutting things in the Recreation centers and they wonder why kids are committing crime fighting drug dealing turning to drugs because they have nothing to do because they're too busy tearing down beautiful buildings of our neighborhoods!!! I'm so...

Explore Baltimore - The Rotunda Address: 711 W 40th St, Baltimore, MD 21211 Hours: Closed ⋅ Opens 7 AM Opened: 1971 Owner: Hekemian & Co No. of stores and services: 10 Total retail floor area: 300,000 sq. ft

1800’s

Tracing the history of The Rotunda begins in the 1800s when it was part of the Mount Pleasant tract (not to be confused with Mankin’s mansion of the same name). It was home to the Clarke family, who built the buildings on the property known as the “Beaumont Estate.”

1922-1969

Maryland Casualty Company’s business campus included impressive amenities—a clubhouse with a dining room, a 1,500-seat auditorium, landscaped park, gardens, tennis courts and a baseball diamond. The idea was to provide its workers with an idyllic business campus removed from downtown’s hustle-and-bustle. The H-shaped building now known as The Rotunda was the company’s administration building. Its distinctive bell tower and clock was a landmark of the Hampden community.

For more than 40 years, Maryland Casualty Company happily existed on its Hampden campus, but by 1969, the Maryland Casualty Company outgrew the four-story Rotunda building. The company considered demolishing the iconic building in 1969 and replacing it with a large office building, but developer Bernard Manekin convinced the company to turn it into retail and office space.

1973-2012

In 1973 after Maryland Casualty vacated the building, the property became Baltimore’s first adaptive reuse project including office space and a shopping mall with 40,000 additional square feet added. The building was christened The Rotunda. The Rotunda opened with several retailers including a Giant grocery store, Rite Aid, Horn and Horn Cafeteria, the Bead, Tomlinson Craft Collection, Gordon’s Booksellers, Rotunda Cinematheque and more. In 2005, the property was sold to New Jersey-based developer Hekemian and Company, which began planning a mixed-use redevelopment project to transform the historic location into an upscale residential and commercial campus.

2013-2016

In 2013, Hekemian broke ground, completing the renovation in 2016, which added new ground-level retail featuring Mom’s Organic Market (its first Baltimore City store), adding the Space Telescope Science Institute as the anchor of The Rotunda’s Offices and opening the ICON Residences at The Rotunda.

Today

The Rotunda was acquired by MCB Real Estate in late 2022, which began renovating, elevating, and enhancing the historic property, making it the place in Baltimore to live, work and play.

Credits: Maryland Center for History and Culture, Maryland Historical Society and...