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In March 2001, 52 years after construction there began, Baltimore Memorial Stadium was demolished. As part of a compromise brokered by Mayor Martin O'Malley between those wanting to clear and redevelop the site and those wanting to preserve it, the memorial wall was left standing. The state of Maryland spent $750,000 to reinforce it. [24]

Memorial Stadium, built beginning in 1949 and demolished in 2001, "lives on today in some surprising and remarkably tangible ways," Eggener writes, in "The Demolition and Afterlife of Baltimore Memorial Stadium," in the current issue of the contemporary architecture and urbanism journal "Places."

In February 2001, the City of Baltimore began demolition of Baltimore's Memorial Stadium. A fight over what to do with the 10 story memorial wall dedicated to the memory of those "who so valiantly fought and served in the World Wars" delayed completion of the task until the Spring of 2002.