Cordish Aims to Cultivate Tech Culture

The Cordish Companies plan to transform Power Plant Live! into a hub for fast-growing small companies is a classic case of seeing a need and trying to fill it. T

hat’s according to Blake Cordish, the company’s vice president of development, who said the Baltimore firm started thinking about doing more office development at Power Plant Live! after it realized there was an absence of office space that would appeal to small companies. The dearth of space was exacerbated by the Class B office buildings being converted to apartments in the central business district. But it was also made clear by tech firms tending to choose neighborhoods over downtown.