Instead of having a grocery store and housing and offices, the State Center redevelopment area may one day have a sports arena.

The Maryland Stadium Authority yesterday approved a request to conduct a “site assessment and development study” to determine whether an arena should be built on the publicly owned land known as State Center.

The vote comes two and a half months after Gov. Larry Hogan, state Comptroller Peter Franchot and Treasurer Nancy Kopp voted at a Board of Public Works meeting to rescind leases and withdraw support for a $1.5 million mixed-use development on the 28-acre State Center property.

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