Enterprise Gets Go-Ahead For Building On Main Street In Reisterstown

REISTERSTOWN, MD — Enterprise is planning to set up shop on Main Street in Reisterstown.

The rental car business will be where Thrifty was located, at 328 Main Street.

“They essentially want to take the existing building and rehab it if possible,” Jim Matis, project representative and engineer, told county officials on Tuesday.

Plans call for bringing the facade up to date and erecting a 992-square-foot addition behind the building, which will be used as “cleanup bays” for washing and vacuuming cars that have been returned, Matis said.

"This part of Reisterstown ... has presence," Development Manager Lloyd Moxley said, where Baltimore County officials gave developers the go-ahead for the addition.

The Development Review Committee recommended a B8 exemption for the project, which applies when a minor development does not exceed a total of three lots. This also allows the project to be exempted from a community inputing meeting and requires development approval before a building permit will be issued.

"This portion of Reisterstown doesn’t have guidelines," Planning Division Chief Jenifer Nugent said during the committee's meeting, held virtually Tuesday. "We’re open to working with the applicant and trying to make this as compatible as possible with the community."

Project officials said they are hoping to rehab the existing building but may need to gut it due to structural issues. Before it was Thrifty, the property housed a gas station in the 1950s, they said. Those working on the Enterprise Rent-a-Car project said they had not decided whether the building would need to be taken down and rebuilt, but either way, it would be essentially the same size as what is there now, before the addition is constructed.