A New View from Bin 400

I was just asked about the horrible racket in the background during a telephone conversation.  Horrible racket, indeed!!  What he was hearing was the sweet sound of jobs and a major event in the making.

Behold the view from Bin 400, Warehouse B.  That's the future Pit Row of the 2011 Baltimore Grand Prix under construction.  (What looks like rubble in the lower right corner is actually granite window sill.  MOSHA doesn't allow me to lean any farther.)

The large rectangular pit in the foreground will be the site of an underground reservoir that will capture stormwater runoff and allow it to be reused for irrigation.  That's supposed to arrive next week.

The oval area at the top, which is where the race cars will enter from Conway Street, will be levelled and transformed into a pedestrian mall with portable trees, planters, streetlights and benches that can be moved to accommodate the race.

In less than a year, the east side of the Warehouse will be one of the most exciting stretchs of the internationally covered race, as cars zip down Conway Street and spin into the pit or veer left to take the corner at Lee Street.  As for now, a little jackhammering just helps us keep alert.