EASTON, MARYLAND — The hospital campus is mapped in two charrette scenarios. It is not a signed sale.

Engage Easton’s South Downtown (SODO) Subarea Plan page says the plan will supplement the Town of Easton’s Comprehensive Plan for the existing University of Maryland Shore Medical Center / Easton Memorial Hospital site as UMMS Shore Medical Center relocates. The background sheet puts the campus at about 12.5 acres, owned by UMMS and adjacent to the central business district and surrounding housing. UMMS has solicited bids for private developers to purchase and redevelop the site.

The town selected Seth Harry & Associates as lead consultant, with Townscape Design, LLC, and The Chesapeake Group. An April 19–23 design charrette drew about 70 people for all or part of the week. The charrette opened Sunday, April 19, with stakeholder roundtables; themes included open space, perimeter housing character along S. Washington Street and Earle Avenue, and reopening the former north-south Adkins Street now covered by the hospital. Early concepts ran through Plans A–E before the closing night presented final development scenarios labeled Plan A and Plan B. A video of the closing night presentation is posted on the Engage page.

Both Plan A and Plan B, as the page describes them, put the bulk of higher density and commercial uses on the northern portion of the site closer to downtown, with a transition to lower density farther south. The page states Plan A can generate about 135 to 175 units and Plan B about 145 to 185 units. For comparison, it lists underlying zoning R-7A and R-10A ranges: up to 100 units by-right; 100–150 or 150–250 by special exception depending on housing types; and 200 to 400 units by Planned Unit Development with Town Council approval. The page presents those figures as scenario ranges — not a chosen plan or an adopted redevelopment vote.

Engage timeline markers show consultant selection, data gathering, a neighborhood walk-around, the public charrette, and plan development marked complete; plan refinement marked active; Planning Commission review and Town Council public hearing and adoption still incomplete. Questions: 410-822-2525 or engage [at] eastonmd.gov.