Phillips Seafood will open in ESPN Zone space in fall 2011, Cordish announces

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UPDATE:

The new Phillips will include a crab deck on the floating barge that ESPN Zone used as an outdoor bar.

Here's what I wrote on June 14,  few days after Phillips announced its separation from Harborplace and after chatter had begun about its relocation into ESPN Zone had:

"If that does happen, it could give Phillips something the Harborplace location never could — a waterside setting for outdoor crab feasting.

I'm thinking of the floating barge, one of three along Pier 4, that ESPN Zone used mostly for outdoor drinking. It's not a given that Phillips, even if it does move to Power Plant, would want to convert the barge into a crab deck.

But I like the crab deck idea, and so I'm planting it."