Finalists Selected in Competition to Find ‘The Next Great Baltimore Bench’ for Port Covington

12/2/16

By Ed Gunts, Baltimore Fishbowl

The Classic Baltimore Bench, which Won’t be Used in Port Covington

Will Baltimore get The Cleat? Could it be The Stoop? What about The Riga?

Those are the names of the benches picked as finalists in a national competition launched this year to find “the next great Baltimore bench” that would be installed in the Port Covington development.

Sagamore Development Company, the real estate arm of Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank and developer of more than 260 acres in Port Covington, joined with the Baltimore Office of Promotion + the Arts to hold the competition.

Sagamore vice president Caroline Paff explained Sagamore’s search for the next great Baltimore bench during a meeting of the city’s Urban Design and Architecture Review Panel.

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