Category Archives: Around the Yard
M&T Bank Stadium to Host Premier League Soccer Match on July 28
Tottenham Hotspur to play Liverpool this summer in Baltimore
Baltimore, Md. – The Baltimore Ravens, Maryland Stadium Authority and Maryland Office of Sports Marketing today announced Tottenham Hotspur Football Club will play Liverpool Football Club in an all-Premier League soccer match on Saturday, July 28 at 1:00 p.m. EST at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Md. The match-up features two of the most popular teams in the Barclays Premier League, widely regarded as the most competitive and elite soccer league in the world.
A Classic Park Gets a Modern Twist, Part 2
With less than a month until Opening Day on April 6th, we re-visited Camden Yards to see the improvements and modifications that have been made to the stadium. Over a month ago, we highlighted the renovations that were starting to take place this off season at Camden Yards to make Oriole Park more of a year-round facility. These improvements were designed to coincide with the celebration of 20 years at Camden Yards for the Orioles. Read the rest of this entry
A Classic Park Gets a Modern Twist
As the Orioles prepare to celebrate 20 years at Oriole Park at Camden Yards this season, the stadium is getting a bit of a makeover. It was announced back in December that renovations would start taking place this off season to make the stadium into more of a year-round facility. Subtle improvements to the stadium started prior to the 2011 season on the lower concourse.
Just in Time for Fall Festivities…
An 85-acre complex like Camden Yards has a lot of gateways. When 70,000+ people (many of them out-of-towners) descend upon us for a football game or Grand Prix event, we like to let them know where they are and where they are going. So our partnership with the Gwynns Falls Trail — the 13 mile hiker-biker passage from I-70 to the Inner Harbor — helps us welcome guests to our complex, teach them a little history of the site, and direct them to public transportation terminals and spending opportunities downtown.
This large addition to the existing kiosk at Warner and Ostend tells the story of the Camden Yards rail yard that anchored the industrial area where the sports complex now stands. It also indicates the overpasses that will take visitors to Federal Hill or the Inner Harbor. With all the visitors arriving by bus, train, auto, cycle, or on foot, this wayfaring sign is just what we need to let everyone know that Camden Yards is still a transportation crossroads and a convenient place to attend an event. It’s also a very interesting place to visit and learn about Baltimore’s industrial heritage.
The View from Bin 400- A Lamborghini Lands
With the Baltimore Grand Prix almost upon us, every day brings another activity to Camden Yards. If it isn’t concrete barriers or fences going up, it’s a distinguished visitor or press event.
But today it was the unheralded arrival of the snazziest vehicle yet — a vintage Lamborghini, parked tantalizingly under Bin 400. It came with so little fanfare, we didn’t get to see who emerged from the gull-winged doors.
Coming Home to Roost
Yes, it was a treat for the football-hungry fans, still in semi-withdrawal and faint without fantasy. But imagine the players, taking the field for practice, being greeted with this: more than 24,000 energetic supporters, eager for the first look at their heroes, on a hot Saturday morning in August.
