CRS moves Baltimore headquarters to new site in city

Published: 2005-07-27

BALTIMORE (CNS) -- Citing a longstanding need for more office space, leaders of Catholic Relief Services in Baltimore announced July 25 that the U.S. bishops' international relief and development agency will relocate its world headquarters to a new site in the city. CRS will lease the Stewarts Building from the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, allowing it to increase its number of employees from 320 to 400 by 2008. "I can't tell you how delighted we are that Catholic Relief Services is staying in the city," said Mayor Martin J. O'Malley during a press conference at City Hall. "It's going to be terrific for the west side." In an interview with The Catholic Review, Baltimore's archdiocesan newspaper, Kenneth Hackett, CRS president, said his organization needed to find a bigger facility because its AIDS, tsunami and other outreach programs have expanded in recent years. The Stewarts Building, which opened in 1899 as a department store, will provide 180,000 square feet of space. CRS is currently squeezed into 86,000 square feet of space between its two locations.

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