Whiting‑Turner to build 150,000‑square‑foot headquarters on Goucher College campus

Goucher College campus, Towson, Maryland, September 23, 2025

News Summary

A national construction firm will relocate its local offices into a newly built 150,000‑square‑foot headquarters on six acres at Goucher College. The company signed a 50‑year ground lease with the college to develop under‑utilized campus land, generating long‑term revenue to support students and faculty. A national architecture firm is designing the building and the company will self‑perform construction, marking the first time the firm will occupy a building of its own. The move aims to strengthen campus partnerships, preserve green space and create local economic and employment benefits.

Two major developments in local construction: a long-running Turner training program credited with helping small firms grow, and Whiting-Turner moving into a new 150,000-square-foot headquarters on Goucher College land

Turner’s School of Construction Management is being credited with helping locally owned businesses expand and win work with large contractors, while Whiting-Turner Contracting Company will relocate its headquarters for the first time in more than 50 years to a new 150,000-square-foot building on the campus of Goucher College.

Who benefited from the Turner program

A local owner-operator enrolled in the Turner program five years ago after encouragement from a Turner procurement manager while reviewing trade partner requirements. The owner said the program provided the knowledge needed to run a business, including coaching on facing challenges, networking, joining business associations, and navigating contracts and legal documents. The mentorship also helped the company expand into the healthcare market. The owner later adjusted company policies to improve employee retention, including a mandatory one-week vacation every six months, and expressed gratitude for the work and learning obtained through Turner.

Another small-business owner who provides post-construction cleaning services joined the Turner program after learning about it at a networking event. That owner valued the program’s diversity of participants, which included architecture firms, electrical firms, other construction companies, and commercial cleaners, and noted that Turner staff were open to sharing knowledge and responsive to questions.

About the Turner School of Construction Management

The Turner School of Construction Management has operated for more than 50 years. The Turner School of Construction Management has over 40,000 graduates. The program is presented as part of a national economic inclusion strategy and is positioned as a longstanding part of Turner’s culture and its commitment to empowering underrepresented, small, and local businesses. Each year the Turner School of Construction Management brings together business owners to deepen industry knowledge, strengthen operational practices, and build partnerships.

The curriculum covers project management, preconstruction, safety, marketing, and business development. The curriculum is taught by Turner professionals and industry experts. Program staff explain Turner’s safety programs, prequalification process, and expectations of trade partners over a project partnership. Turner also supports matching trade partners with appropriately sized work packages through introductions to partner firms or breaking apart packages into more manageable pieces, and Turner works with local businesses beyond construction trades, including restaurants, food trucks, office supply companies, and security firms.

Turner conducts outreach aimed at recruiting the next generation of craftworkers because the current craftworker population is aging out faster than recruitment is replacing them. Outreach efforts include parents, counselors, and trusted adults to broaden perceptions about career paths beyond four-year colleges. For more information about future Turner School sessions, the Community & Citizenship Program Specialist is Brittany Lewis ([email protected]).

Program format and sponsorship note

The Turner School of Construction Management is described as a training program where Turner professionals and industry experts teach business and construction-related topics. The Turner program material included a sponsored content notice indicating the content was paid for by an advertiser, and that the newsroom and editorial staff were not involved in creation of the sponsored content.

Whiting-Turner headquarters move

Whiting-Turner Contracting Company will relocate its headquarters for the first time in more than 50 years. The company will remain in Towson but will leave an office it shares in Hampton Plaza and move less than a mile to a new building on the 287-acre campus of Goucher College. The new Whiting-Turner headquarters will be a 150,000-square-foot office building situated on six acres toward the front of Goucher’s campus along Dulaney Valley Drive. The new headquarters is expected to be completed in late 2028.

The national architecture firm Gensler assigned Diane Hoskins to design the new Whiting-Turner headquarters. Whiting-Turner will construct the new headquarters itself. The cost of the Whiting-Turner facility’s construction is undetermined. Whiting-Turner was founded in 1909 and is a national builder with a cluster of offices on the East Coast and more than 60 locations across the country. The company employs about 5,000 people total, with roughly 1,000 based in the Baltimore area. The company president and CEO said in an interview that in the company’s entire history they have never had a building of their own and that seating a corporate headquarters on a college campus is a unique move expected to benefit from the campus setting.

Goucher College signed a 50-year ground lease for the land and declined to disclose the ground lease’s monetary value. The college president said the ground lease will yield millions of dollars for Goucher and help with primary expenses such as financial aid for students and faculty salaries. The college has about 1,100 undergraduate students and is using under-utilized land to create a revenue stream and can provide educational opportunities for students. The college had previously announced plans to add a retirement community, Edenwald Senior Living, on campus, and indicated it might partner with other companies going forward across 287 acres.

What happens next

Turner will continue to run the School of Construction Management and recruit local firms and craftworkers. Whiting-Turner will move forward with design and construction of its new headquarters and has targeted late 2028 for completion. Both developments signal ongoing efforts to link construction employers, service providers, and educational institutions in ways that aim to expand local business capacity and generate campus-based revenue.

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