[GeronL]

and even the opening of the beautiful Camden Yards for the Orioles and M&T Bank Stadium for the Ravens has not helped revive the city

Anyone could have seen that coming. Nobody thinks some big government program (stadiums) is going to help the real economy.

Reminds me of that thread about Soviet leaders who would come to visit the US and yawn when they visited NASA but go nuts when they saw a supermarket.

[RayChuang88]

Camden Yard should have helped because with 81 home games per year, that draws a HUGE amount of people downtown to patronize downtown businesses. That was unless the city of Baltimore didn't bother to redevelop the area around Camden Yards/M&T Bank Stadium like they did with the Lo-Do district in Denver, CO; the Atlanta Braves are leaving Turner Field because they never really developed the area around the ballpark into a true entertainment area that could have attracted many visitors even during the off-season.