Horseshoe Baltimore Corridor to Ravens Stadium Named ‘Walk at Warner Street’
The little walking betwixt Horseshoe Baltimore Casino and M&T Bank Stadium, place of the NFL Baltimore Ravens, is existence developed into what the city, sports team, and gambling casino hope becomes unity of Charm City’s biggest attractions.
Caesars Entertainment, which operates Horseshoe Baltimore and controls a absolute majority ownership stakes in the casino’s physical assets, has for many years been trying to take a leak the corridor betwixt the casino and Ravens nursing home a more appealing stroll.
But the short trek along Charles Dudley Warner Street has been spoilt with empty warehouses, homeless, and peddlers. Over the years, Caesars has purchased vacant buildings and attracted hospitality and amusement vendors to term of a contract come out the redeveloped properties.
Today, officials from the casino companionship unveiled that the forthcoming amusement district will follow known as the “Walk @ Warner Street.”
Destination, Not Only a Casino
The “Walk @ Warner Street” this weekend will undecided unity of its marquise attractions: Topgolf.
This Friday, the golf-focused amusement venue will unveil its three-story interactive driving range featuring to a greater extent than 90 hitting bays. Topgolf Baltimore additionally features a exclude and restaurant, rooftop terrace with flame pits, and a 36-foot-wide video wall.
The “Walk @ Warner Street” testament to boot feature bars, restaurants, and retail shops. As for nightlife, the district is headlined by The Paramount, a forthcoming 70,000-square-foot unrecorded music and case venue.
When Caesars approached Baltimore and Free State 10 years agone near opening a gambling casino here inwards Charm City, the society always had larger plans than a bingle gaming facility,” explained Randy Conroy, senior vice president and full general manager of Horseshoe Baltimore. “We wanted to metamorphose South Baltimore by bringing inward a new innovational amusement dominion that would serve as the southern gateway to the city.”
But a decennium since Caesars first considered building a gambling casino inward Baltimore, few Ravens fans are making the paseo to the Horseshoe casino.
The passionate Ravens fanbase for the most part arrives at M&T from alfresco the downtown metropolis limits. And with the legal age of the parking lots serving M&T Bank Stadium set compass north of the stadium, to the highest degree drive-in fans don’t opt to make water the roughly quarter-mile walk south to gamble.
The Ravens Walk, which is billed as the “ultimate tailboard experience” with an raiment of bars and nutrient trucks, is also set on the opposite side of meat of the arena from Horseshoe Baltimore.
Casino Needs Turnaround
Caesars’ gambling casino in Baltimore has struggled since its August 2014 opening. The gambling casino has failed to in good order compete with Maryland’s deuce other large-scale casinos — MGM National Harbor exterior DC and Live! Casino Hotel MD near BWI aerodrome inward Hanover.
Horseshoe Baltimore’s gaming revenue woes aren’t for a lack of trying on Caesars’ part. The company has made numerous investments inward hopes of attracting high-value customers to the downtown cassino situated inward what’s turn single of the nation’s most severe cities.
Caesars has spent money to undecided an outdoor gaming terrasse where smokers can light-colored upwardly patch continuing to gamble, and the troupe reconfigured its main gambling casino level lowest year. The changes haven’t resulted inward increased gaming.
In pre-pandemic 2019, Horseshoe Baltimore generated gross gaming revenue (GGR) of $237.87 million. State leader MGM that year won $707 million, spell Live! reported GGR of $600.9 million.
Last year, MGM GGR totaled $769.8 million, and Live! won $692.2 million. Horseshoe, however, went the other direction, as the gambling casino won $208.8 million.