The Baltimore hotel Montage Hotels & Resorts will run under its Pendry brand has been named Sagamore Pendry Baltimore.
Irvine-based Montage manages high-end resorts that include Montage Laguna Beach. It launched the Pendry division in 2014 to operate boutique urban hotels.
Its first Pendry is to open this year in San Diego, and the Baltimore hotel, scheduled to open in 2017, is the second.
Sagamore Development Co. LLC is building the $60 million, 128-room project at the end of Recreation Pier in the Fells Point neighborhood of Baltimore, a waterfront area undergoing redevelopment.
Under Armour Inc. founder and Chief Executive Kevin Plank runs Sagamore. He said he wanted a “world-class operator” for the hotel.
The Business Journal reported Montage being named manager in November.
—Paul Hughes