The Baltimore Convention Center is located between
the Baltimore's Inner Harbor and Oriole Park at Camden
Yards (home of the Baltimore Orioles MLB franchise).
The convention center is surrounded by the numerous
restaurant, entertainment and hotel options of the Inner
Harbor. The center opened in 1979 and was expanded in
1996 to it's present size of over 1.2 million square
feet. This expansion included a 36,000 square foot ballroom
and brought the total meeting space of the facility
to 85,000 square feet. Presently a project to build
a convention hotel attached to the center via a covered
skybridge is underway. The hotel will feature 752 rooms
and additional meeting space available for overflow
from the convention center.