The squat two-story garage haunts the corner of Nanticoke Street and Carey Street in West Baltimore. It?s been 10 years since the building last serviced a tractor-trailer garage, and it?s virtually indistinguishable from the other fading industrial buildings nearby.

The garage guards the eastern edge of the residential Pigtown neighborhood, called Washington Village on the brochures, and sits at the end of a block of well-kept row houses. It is the border between the homes and industry of West Baltimore, but in the hands of two developers, it may now be at the leading edge of a new wave in condo conversions.