Inside the former Social Security Administration building at 300 N. Greene Street, the blinds were drawn, the escalators still, the floors empty and enveloped in gloom.
“Did we turn the right way?” developer Arthur Adler asked another member of his team as they led a small tour through the massive 1.1 million-square-foot building his firm, Caves Valley Partners, recently purchased from the federal government.
The Metro West complex, which spans two blocks, has been vacant since Social Security moved to new offices near the Reisterstown Road Plaza Metro station in 2014. Towson-based Caves Valley closed on the site in April after winning last year’s General Services Administration auction with a $7.1 million bid.