Board awards contract to operate Pier Six Pavilion

Baltimore’s Board of Estimates voted 4-0 Wednesday to award a contract to Live Nation and SMG to operate the Pier Six Pavilion, over a competitor’s objections. AEG Live MidAtlantic, one of the entertainment companies passed over for the contract, accused the Baltimore Development Corp. and the city of violating local law in recommending the contract. A. William Reid, senior vice president of AEG Live MidAtlantic, argued before the board that the fix was in for SMG. “We kept hearing, anecdotally, that this [request for proposals] was a done deal,” he said. “This was a payback to SMG.” In September, the BDC said the city chose to move forward with Live Nation and SMG because their bid had the