Howard Hughes Breaks Ground on 350,000 SF Office Building in Columbia, Maryland

COLUMBIA, MD. — The Howard Hughes Corp. has broken ground on a 350,000-square-foot office building within Merriweather District, a new mixed-use neighborhood in downtown Columbia. Tenable Inc. will anchor the new building, occupying approximately 150,000 square feet on floors seven through 12. The cyber security company will make the move from its current Columbia Gateway location to the new building at 6100 Merriweather Drive in late 2019. The new building will join One and Two Merriweather, two existing mixed-use office buildings within the development. At full build-out, Merriweather District will include 2,300 residences, a 250-room hotel, more than 1.5 million square feet of office space, 314,000 square feet of street-level retail and a central park. The Merriweather District will be powered by STEER technology, the first fully autonomous parking solution that transforms everyday cars into driverless vehicles that park themselves. The technology will make the district the first city in the country to be built for automated self-parking cars, according to the Howard Hughes Corp. In addition, Merriweather District will be LEED v4-certified — the highest level of LEED certification— making it the first development in Maryland to achieve this designation, and the fifth in the United States. Merriweather District is part of the massive redevelopment of downtown Columbia, which will eventually include more than 14 million square feet of mixed-use development. The Downtown Columbia revitalization was approved by Howard County in 2010. About 10 percent of the redevelopment plan is either under construction or complete.