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Article: Baltimore's Center Club looks to the future with $3M makeover
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- The Daily Record (Baltimore)
- Article date:
- September 4, 2009
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Sweeping open a set of double doors adorned with two wood-
crafted, billowing schooner sails, Howard Miller says, "This is our
pride and joy."
He is giving a tour of the brand-new bar and lounge area -- all
dark woods, shiny mirrors and pinpoint lighting -- of the Center
Club, the private luncheon and dinner club for Baltimore's business
elite. Miller is president of the club, which occupies the better
part of two floors of 100 Light Street, a stolid stone tower
adjacent to the Inner Harbor.
From the east-facing windows of the club, there's a clear view
across the water of the new Legg Mason tower, recently completed and
gleaming on the waterfront in Harbor East, a neighborhood that some
say ...