Alison Asti, the executive director of the Maryland Stadium Authority, poses outside of the Camden Yards warehouse on Wednesday, May 23, 2007. Chris Ammann/Examiner
R. Saxon Birdsong, president and director of investments with Baltimore-Washington Financial Advisors, Inc., sits in his Columbia office on Thursday, June 14, 2007. Chris Ammann/Examiner
Brendan Cooke, a realtor/assistant broker with RE/MAX Firehouse Realty, stands in the metal spiral staircase of their offices inside the old firehouse of Baltimore City Fire Co. 156 (used from 1910 - 1989) in Baltimore on Tuesday, July 31, 2007. Chris Ammann/Examiner