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.
The two sites OVG considered were at the Port Covington development (now known as Baltimore Peninsula), which was led by Weller Development before it transitioned to new development partners MAG Partners and MacFarlane Partners last year, and at the Wheelabrator Baltimore trash burning facility at 1801 Annapolis Rd., just south of Horseshoe Casino Baltimore.
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