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Grand Prix 'struggling' financially, facing suits over unpaid bills
Organizers of the Baltimore Grand Prix are grappling with mounting financial problems, including a missed loan payment to the state and lawsuits alleging nearly $1.6 million in unpaid bills — raising questions about their ability to host next year's...Tags: Judges, Companies and Corporations, Trials, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Prince George's County
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An auto race was never going to save Baltimore
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake famously promised that the Baltimore Grand Prix would be a "game-changer" for the city. But after nearly $7 million of infrastructure funds have been squandered for what merchants outside the Inner Harbor say was little...Tags: Inner Harbor, Finance, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Grand Prix of Baltimore
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So just how will Grand Prix debts be paid?
Baltimore Racing Development said they will make things right and pay the hundreds of thousands of dollars owed to vendors and the Maryland Stadium Authority ("Grand Prix's financial troubles," Nov. 3). My question is, how? Don't they count on income... -
City threatens to end deal with racing group
City officials threatened Monday to end their contract with the company that staged the inaugural Baltimore Grand Prix race, saying it owed the city more than $1.5 million — a development that casts doubt on the future of the three-day racing...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Government, Public Officials, Labor Day
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Funding scarce for Troy Park Tennis Center
The future of the Troy Park Tennis Center, envisioned as Maryland's largest tennis facility, has grown murky as advocates continue to search for hard-to-find funding five years after the $44 million undertaking was first proposed. The 8,000-seat tennis...Tags: Ken Ulman, Economic Policy, Finance, Domestic Travel, Local Government
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Taxpayers funding stadiums get nothing out of them
Regardless of the Maryland Stadium Authority's decision ("Scarce funding imperils tennis center," July 21), the county should not spend precious taxpayer dollars on yet another unnecessary sports stadium. Time and time again proponents of these...Tags: Howard County
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Net gain for county had better be substantial
County officials must proceed with extreme caution as a plan for a park and tennis center in Elkridge continues its halting journey.
The Howard County Tennis Patrons, the private group that has worked for five years to establish an 8,000-seat venue for...Tags: Ken Ulman, Maryland, Elections, Howard County
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Letters: Overcrowded schools, tennis stadium and space program
Students could be moved to underused schools out west A careful reading of the Howard County Times provides solutions for the over crowding of public schools and the proposed tax payer funded Tennis Stadium. The new Elementary school, the public park...Tags: Space Programs, Cape Canaveral, Labor Markets, Finance, Domestic Travel
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Utility costs cripple Hippodrome
Seven years after the Hippodrome Theatre reopened with a citywide celebration and an outpouring of civic optimism, the historic venue is struggling, beset by exorbitant utility expenses and an audience that is seemingly deserting in droves.
Attendance...Tags: Broadway Theater, Media Industry, Glenn Miller, Consumer Confidence, Frank Sinatra
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Hippodrome finances get a rewrite
The Hippodrome Theatre, like much of the city's west side development, has not been a roaring success. The former movie palace and vaudeville house was renovated seven years ago by the Maryland Stadium Authority at a cost of $63.3 million. It opened...Tags: Broadway Theater, Music Theater, Finance, Maryland, Theater
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Monday hearing will determine fate of city trees
Residents upset with trees being felled in advance of the Grand Prix are going into court Monday to try to prevent any more from being taken down. But both the mayor's and city solicitor's office say all the cutting is done. A group led by Dave Troy, a...Tags: Otis Rolley, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Regional Authority
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Grand Prix organizers seeking candidates for CEO position
Leaders of the financially-strapped company that produced the Baltimore Grand Prix have been interviewing candidates to take the helm of the group, officials said Wednesday.
"Believe it or not, there are several people who have expressed interest,"...Tags: William H. Cole IV, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Grand Prix of Baltimore, Corporate Officers
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