"I think that with the casino being right next door, we're not going to be considered a second option, if you will. "For the longest time … we'd get feedback from guests saying there's really nothing around," said Beau Athia, Baywood's vice president of capital investments. It draws on customers headed to sports games or preparing to leave on a cruise, too far from the Inner Harbor to charge the top-tier rates commanded by the city's other hotels. Greenbelt-based Baywood Hotels spent about $6 million to buy and renovate the Holiday Inn Express Baltimore at the Stadiums several years before casino gambling was legalized in the state. "That's not an ordinary Baltimore reaction." We've got $5 million, we're going to buy up all the property around it,'" he said. It's not where people rush in and say 'Oh, God, there's a casino. in 2012, said the area has potential as an entertainment district, but he would not be surprised if the transformation takes time. "Jay" Brodie, who retired as head of the Baltimore Development Corp.
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