Oriole Park at Camden Yards Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Blocked skyline views==== In 2007–08 construction started on two large buildings beyond the stadium's outfield walls—a 757-room [[Hilton Baltimore]] hotel north of the stadium occupying a two-city-block area and a high-rise apartment building, both completed in 2009—which have blocked views of the city's skyline from most sections of the grandstand. ''[[The Baltimore Sun]]'' said on April 21, 2008, "There's just a glimpse of the [[Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower|Bromo Seltzer Tower]]'s crenellated top just to the right of the new Hilton Baltimore Convention Center hotel ... something's drastically different at Oriole Park this year ... the sweeping view of downtown Baltimore that fans have enjoyed for the past 16 seasons has changed considerably."<ref name=Gunts08>{{cite news |first=Edward|last=Gunts|title=Going, Going, Gone|newspaper=[[The Baltimore Sun]]|date=April 21, 2008|page=C1}}</ref> Sportswriter [[Peter Schmuck]] complained, "the big, antiseptic convention hotel ... looms over Camden Yards ... [and] has blocked out the best part of the Baltimore skyline".<ref>{{cite news |author=Schmuck, Peter |author-link=Peter Schmuck |title=First Word|newspaper=[[The Baltimore Sun]]|date=July 17, 2008|page=3Z}}</ref> A ''[[Washington Post]]'' columnist called it a "cruel cubist joke on a previously perfect ballpark", although others said they were pleased with new construction downtown as indicative of urban revitalization.<ref name=Gunts08 /> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page