BALTIMORE The 225-room resort hotel and condominium project planned for Baltimore s Inner Harbor will be a Ritz-Carlton, based on a management agreement formed between the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. LLC and Federal Hill Development LLC. The $156 million, high-tech Ritz-Carlton, which will use thumb readers instead of keys to enter guestrooms, is expected to open in early 2003 with groundbreaking expected to begin next month.
Ritz-Carlton had been scouting for an appropriate Inner Harbor site since 1995, Ritz officials have said. (2/16/01)
SOURCE:Baltimore Sun