The Baltimore Convention Center is about to get a multimillion-dollar face-lift.
On Wednesday, the city’s spending board unanimously approved $25.7 million in state funds to tackle a number of projects at the facility. Lawmakers earmarked the money in a 2023 spending bill after the city-owned convention center flagged several pressing needs. They included sprucing up the bathrooms, modernizing the phone system, upgrading its lighting and renovating the “failing” bridges that span Charles Street.
The convention center — which opened in 1979 and expanded in 1996 — also needs “immediate capital infrastructure improvements,” according to the letter Executive Director Mac Campbell sent lawmakers last year.
Those improvements include moving several key functions from the east side of the convention center into the west, according to the letter, as part of a longer-term plan to potentially demolish and rebuild the east side of the convention center.
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