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Orioles announce changes in home game start times for 2024

The Baltimore Orioles announced some changes coming to home games in the 2024 season. They released the schedule for their home games that will include changing start times for Saturday home games and weekday games. All Saturday games will start at 4:05 p.m., with the exception of a June 29 game against the World Series champion Texas Rangers. All games Mondays through Thursdays will now start at 6:35 p.m., with the exception of one game on Aug. 22. Friday night games will remain at 7:05 p.m. and Sunday games will remain at 1:35 p.m.

Read More: WBALTV
Harbor East, Harbor Point will lead Baltimore’s turnaround, CBRE exec says

Harbor East and Harbor Point were hailed as the bright spots in an otherwise sagging office and commercial market during a meeting Tuesday of Greater Baltimore’s real estate brokers. Spencer Levy, senior economic adviser at CBRE, offered the crowd at the Sheraton Baltimore North in Towson a dose of hard reality and even some optimism in a market battered by sky-high interest rates and lack of financing.

Bits & Bites: Harford Road is becoming a Baltimore dining hot spot with several new restaurants on the way

Good eats in Hamilton-Lauraville are nothing new. The northeastern side of the city is home to beloved dining spots like Maggie’s Farm, Koco’s Pub, Taste This, Zeke’s Coffee and Silver Queen Cafe. More recent additions include Cafe Campli, a restaurant serving dishes from Italy’s Abruzzo region, Diasporan Soul, a Jamaican-American fusion spot and Arcola, a neighborhood coffee shop.

Read More: Baltimore Sun
Five Black-owned Baltimore businesses worth checking out

I love supporting Black-owned businesses. There’s a certain level of joy I get out of seeing thriving Black business owners in the neighborhoods where they grew up giving back to their communities and living out their dreams. Seeing the passion, creativity, and resiliency in Black-owned businesses is exciting, especially in a city like Baltimore. People from outside of Baltimore don’t get it: Our swagger, our culture, our history that gives us the freedom to operate like we do and have the can-do attitude to push through any obstacle.

The Orioles will soon reach at least $1.3 billion in public benefits since 1988. They’re expected to ask for more.

Thirty-five years after the Orioles announced their arrival in Baltimore, then-Gov. William Donald Schaefer introduced a “distinguished visitor” to mark the end of a meeting that would redefine the MLB team’s relationship with the state of Maryland. The Oriole Bird came into the conference room and rallied the elected officials and bureaucrats with a chant of “O-R-I-O-L-E-S.” The occasion — final approval of a state-of-the-art, taxpayer-funded stadium in exchange for the Orioles’ long-term commitment to Baltimore — came on the heels of the painful departure a few years earlier of the NFL’s Colts.

Read More: Baltimore Sun
Baltimore Peninsula team unveils city’s next marketplace

The team leading the development of Baltimore Peninsula in South Baltimore’s Port Covington neighborhood unveiled a conceptual design of The Exchange, a brick-and-mortar marketplace designed to bolster small and local merchants. Scheduled to open late next year, The Exchange — which is using BCT Design Group, the designers behind the newly reopened Lexington Market in Downtown Baltimore — will consist of 13 spaces ranging from 90 square feet to 165 square feet as well as a food stall, seating area and space for a yoga studio and multipurpose room.

Inside Constellation’s planned push into clean hydrogen — and the federal ruling that could shape the industry’s future

Constellation Energy Corp. wants to be a big player in the hydrogen industry, a field that could be worth more than $1 trillion, but first, the company needs a key federal ruling to go in its favor. The U.S. Department of the Treasury is currently mulling over rules that would determine who qualifies for a new clean hydrogen production tax credit that was created as part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) called 45V, which will give out $3 for every kilogram of clean hydrogen a company produces.

As lease nears end, Orioles and Maryland may consider development rights separately

With their lease expiring in five weeks, the Orioles and the state of Maryland are considering separating the complex — and potentially contentious — issue of stadium-area development rights from the pressing need to finalize a lease binding the team to Baltimore for the long term, according to two people with direct knowledge of the negotiations.

Read More: Baltimore Sun
CFG Bank Arena developer considered building a new arena in South Baltimore

Oak View Group (OVG), the company that redeveloped CFG Bank Arena and has a 30-year lease on the property, considered building a new arena before committing to renovating Baltimore’s existing Downtown arena. OVG CEO Tim Leiweke was a guest on Weller Development’s ‘From The Ground Up’ podcast and detailed the different opportunities the organization considered in the years leading up to the CFG Bank Arena renovation.

Developers break ground on Silver Spring affordable apartment community

Green Street Housing and TM Associates Development, two of Maryland’s largest affordable rental housing developers, hosted a groundbreaking ceremony Monday for Sligo Apartments, a 98-unit apartment community in Silver Spring. Sligo Apartments, at 715 Sligo Ave., is a new construction residential development that is 100% affordable with restricted rents.

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