Outback Steakhouse is leaving Canton after more than 20 years

Soon there will be no more Bloomin’ Onions for Baltimore: Outback Steakhouse will exit Canton’s Can Company complex after more than 20 years. The departure will leave Charm City without a single branch of the iconic Australian-themed steakhouse within city limits.

The eatery’s space at 2400 Boston St. will be available for lease, according to complex co-owner Jeremy Landsman. He didn’t have an exact date for the restaurant’s closure but said it will be before the end of the year.

The shuttering comes despite what Landsman said were strong sales for the steakhouse. But he said he sees this as a chance for a new and local operator to move in. “We definitely look at it as an opportunity to do better than that,” he said. Landsman also co-owns multiple properties in Towson and Baltimore’s Hampden neighborhood. He said his portfolio shows “we like local, not national.”

The past few years have seen a shake-up of the tenants at Canco, with the departures of RegionAle, Cold Stone Creamery and Starbucks, which shuttered its Boston Street storefront as part of a nationwide wave. &pizza also recently closed; a sign on the door reads, “It’s been a pleasure serving you.”

Landsman said in an email that the former Starbucks and Cold Stone spaces will soon become a branch of the Aberdeen Proving Ground Federal Credit Union.

Other recent arrivals include restaurants like 7th Street Burger, Spice Kitchen and Poke Taco. Office tenant DAP, a caulk company whose global headquarters is in Canco, will be expanding its footprint, while Chipotle has extended its lease.

Through a partnership between Greenspring Realty Partners and his own Reba Holdings, Landsman purchased the Can Company complex in 2024 and rebranded it Canco, an homage to its nickname. Since then, he has been steadily reimagining the three-building, 200,000-square-foot complex on Boston Street.

Other prime spots on the property, including a restaurant space once occupied by Alma Cocina Latina, remain vacant. “We’ve been waiting on the right restaurant options,” Landsman wrote in an email, adding that he and his business partners are focused “on tenants that enhance the surrounding neighborhoods, not just space fillers.”

Last year, Outback’s parent company, Bloomin’ Brands, closed various underperforming Outback branches across the U.S. as part of a “turnaround” strategy. The first Outback opened in 1988 in Florida. A server reached by phone at the Canton Outback said they had not been informed of plans to close the restaurant.

A spokesperson for Bloomin’ Brands could not immediately be reached for comment on the Canton location’s shutdown or whether it would be relocating. But after its closure, customers will still be able to visit locations in Perry Hall, Hunt Valley, Owings Mills and Ellicott City to get their flaky fried-onion fix.

Banner reporter Wesley Case contributed to this story.