Right field, wrong building
The Guilford County office complex behind the right-field scoreboard at First Horizon Park is plenty visible from the stands, but it probably reminds no one of the stately Baltimore & Ohio Warehouse at Camden Yards.
That's why developers are aching to put something new on the property. A combination of shops and condos could stand there several years from now, adding to an area that's already getting Bellemeade Village.
But blocking any new development are county tax collections workers, who still work on the property and won't move to the newly purchased Independence Center until renovations there are finished. That relocation should occur in early 2007, estimated David Grantham, the county's property management director.
Then county can sell the property, and there's sure to be plenty of interest. Grantham has been fielding calls from prospective developers for at least the past 18 months.