Goals and Responsibilities
Since its creation, the MSA broadened its goals and responsibilities. Soon after its incorporation, it sought to negotiate a long-term lease with the Baltimore Orioles, its last remaining professional sports team (Baltimore also lost the Bullets to suburban Washington (Landover, MD) in the early 1970s).
In 1992, under the auspices of the MSA, Orioles Park At Camden Yards was opened. The MSA continued to work toward acquiring a new NFL team. The city was courted by the owners of teams such as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the New Orleans Saints, the St. Louis Cardinals, the Los Angeles Rams, only to be repeatedly disappointed. Baltimore thought it had its best shot in the 1993 NFL Expansion, but the league decided to put teams in Charlotte, North Carolina and Jacksonville, FL, smaller cities in the south. The city finally acquired the old Cleveland Browns team in 1995 under the leadership of John Moag, Chairman of the Maryland Stadium Authority at the time.
Ironically, the other remaining areas seeking an NFL team, St. Louis and Tennessee all acquired teams through relocations. The Los Angeles Rams moved to St. Louis and the Houston Oilers temporarily relocated to Memphis, TN before moving to their new stadium in Nashville. All three teams that relocated made it to the Super Bowl soon after they moved, St. Louis and Tennessee in 2000 and Baltimore in 2001.
Some other projects that the MSA has been tasked to handle are:
- Oriole Park at Camden Yards
- Baltimore Convention Center expansion
- Hippodrome Theatre renovation
- M&T Bank Stadium, home of the Baltimore Ravens
- Memorial Stadium, former home of the Baltimore Orioles
- Ocean City Convention Center
- Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen, MD
- University of Maryland parking garage
- Comcast Center, basketball arena for the Maryland Terrapins
Read more about this topic: Maryland Stadium Authority
Famous quotes containing the words goals and and/or goals:
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—Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)