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A ‘banner year’ for Baltimore
Visit Baltimore, the city’s official tourism agency, predicted last year that fiscal 2014 would be a “banner year” for tourism, and it appears they were right.
Crafts take center stage at upscale Baltimore show
Kathy Wegman’s decorated panther figurine boasts thousands of tiny beads and rhinestones that flash bright jewel tones of blue, green and gold.
Baltimore’s hotel bookings soar with convention growth
Charm City’s conventions tourism industry is growing steadily, according to numbers released Thursday that show fiscal year 2012 as Baltimore’s third-most-successful year for booking convention attendees’ hotel rooms in advance.
New GBC Chair Rogers wants to nurture local firms
Saying he hopes to sharpen the city and region’s competitiveness, Brian C. Rogers, chairman and CIO of T. Rowe Price Group Inc., was named on Monday as the new chairman […]
Convention Center emerges a winner
ANNAPOLIS — The boomerang politics of a small, but key, funding request for planning and design work for the Baltimore Convention Center project ended in victory for city legislators with […]
Coin show tax credit lives
ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland General Assembly is poised to retain an imperiled 22-year-old tax break for collectible coin dealers, which Gov. Martin O’Malley had sought to eliminate in next year’s […]
Answers wanted on convention center plan
ANNAPOLIS — A Senate subcommittee adopted a measure in the capital budget on Thursday that would fund the planning and design of a proposed expansion to the Baltimore Convention Center […]
Donald C. Fry: Report makes strong case for convention center project
The recently released feasibility study of the concept of a combined arena-convention center expansion project near Baltimore‘s Inner Harbor deals head-on with key issues raised and debated in the wake […]
Editorial: One step closer to convention center expansion
A feasibility study has found that the proposed expansion of the Baltimore Convention Center plus a new arena and hotel could increase annual direct spending by as much as $181.6 […]
Coin show threatens to leave Baltimore over O’Malley budget
ANNAPOLIS — An Atlanta company threatened to uproot three annual coin shows from Baltimore and move them out of state Thursday after Gov. Martin O’Malley’s proposal to cut a tax […]
Coin show threatens to leave Baltimore over O’Malley budget
The general manager of three annual coin shows in Baltimore threatened to move the events to another state following a proposal by Gov. Martin O’Malley to eliminate a tax break […]
