The interior of an apartment at the BenMar building at 116 Pine St.
Harristown Enterprises has largely completed the renovation of three downtown buildings, bringing more than 80 new apartments onto Harrisburg’s housing market.
The city-based company has begun leasing the Fox on Washington, a boutique building with eight units, as well as the BenMar, two adjoining buildings that total 74 units.
“We’re very excited to have reached this important point,” said CEO Brad Jones.
Tenants have already begun to move into the Fox on Washington, a 114-year-old brick building on the corner of S. 2nd and Washington streets in Shipoke.
That 1906 building, originally the Fox Hotel, had long housed Santanna’s Seafood House, with apartments upstairs, but had been empty for decades before Harristown purchased it from UPMC Pinnacle in 2018.
The entire building has now been converted to apartments, with two, two-bedroom and six, one-bedroom units.
The BenMar at 116 Pine St.
On the other side of downtown, Harristown has begun to sign leases for a project on Pine Street that it calls the BenMar Apartments, as BenMar was the original name of one of the buildings.
That project consists of two adjoining, mid-century office buildings that Harristown converted to a mix of one- and two-bedroom residential units. This project began about a year ago.
A unit at the BenMar at 124 Pine St.
The larger of the two buildings is at 116 Pine St., with 49 apartments in a mid-century modern architectural style. The building next door at 124 Pine St., with 25 apartments, has been renovated with a modern farmhouse look. Both buildings date from the mid-1950s.
Rents for all three of the buildings range from $1,050 to $1,475 a month depending upon the size of the units and number of bedrooms and bathrooms.
Harristown plans several open houses so that prospective tenants can view the two BenMar buildings. They will be held on successive Saturdays, Jan. 18 and 25 and Feb. 1.
With these buildings, Harristown has delivered some 150 new apartments downtown over the last few years, mostly converting old, rundown office buildings into residential space. It now is seeking final city approval for another residential project, with plans to convert an office building at 17 S. 2nd St. into 30 new, market-rate units.
For more information on these apartment buildings, visit www.hbgrealty.net.
