While I was away, plans for Baltimore’s new arena were officially announced. The site and size of the replacement venue caused some controversy over the past months, but local officials ultimately decided to build an 18,500-seat arena on the site of the current 1st Mariner Arena.
The decision to build a larger, “major-league”-sized arena is an interesting one, considering that the NBA and NHL have all but laughed in our faces when asked about moving a franchise to Baltimore. To that end, the president of the Baltimore Development Corp. said: “We need a state-of-the-art arena because whether we have a major-league team in Baltimore playing basketball or shooting hockey pucks, this is a major-league city and it deserves a major-league arena.”
Even if we can’t fill it to half-capacity?
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