Midtown Baltimore LLC is putting on the Ritz. Or to be more accurate, Midtown Baltimore is putting up the Ritz-Carlton condominiums. Scheduled for completion in late 2007, the luxury units located in Federal Hill along the Key Highway will provide Charm City with an elite real estate drawing card for white collar employees.

“We thought it was filling a void that Baltimore desperately needed to have filled,” Midtown Baltimore Principal Jack Cayre said. “When we took a look around Baltimore, it was clear over the past few years and decades the harbor and Baltimore turned from what it was, a traditional blue-collar town.”