Up early on Friday, we reached the Harbor Point complex in Fells Point in time for the sunrise.

Phase 1 of the projected $1 billion piece of office, retail and residential real estate is nearing completion. Some of the 103 apartment units in the Exelon Tower are already occupied.

Employees from the energy giant will soon move into the skyscraper, located on the remediated grounds of a factory that produced chromium metal for over a hundred years.

Next to be constructed at Harbor Point is the Point Street Apartments, a 16-story structure facing Thames and Caroline streets. (For the strategy behind Harbor Point, see this 2012 Brew story.)

Already flanking the apartment building is a snazzy new plaza – freshly sodded lawn, fancy marble pavers – where one can get a good look at the surrounding harbor.

It is a landscape of dramatic changes, a world where shipyards, chemical plants, rail yards and tugboat operations have given way to condos, office towers and marinas over the last 40 years.

Here are some views that illustrate those changes: