New Baltimore Arena Could Be Privately Built If State Kicks In $400 Million For Convention Center

The Greater Baltimore Committee Wednesday unveiled a grand, $900 million plan for Baltimore’s Inner Harbor that will include a new, privately financed 18,500-seat arena topped by a 500-room hotel, both attached to an expanded Baltimore Convention Center. The $325 million arena and $175 million hotel would be built on the site of the Sheraton Hotel at Conway and Charles streets owned by Willard Hackerman of Whiting Turner Contracting Inc. and would be privately financed. But the project is dependent on being attached to a convention center that would double in size if the state will kick in bonds for the $400 million expansion.

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