Baltimore hotel also bad for skyline view

The Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor hotel may have cost taxpayers millions (“Baltimore has paid $16M — and counting — to keep city-owned hotel afloat during pandemic,” Sept. 13), but its real price was completely ruining the view of the city’s skyline from the seats at Camden Yards.

The hideous edifice, a design called “almost prison-like” by the city’s Urban Design Architectural Review Panel in 2005, sits just beyond centerfield like a lumbering gray elephant that won’t get out of the way. Fans get an eyeful of poorly executed urban planning instead of the graceful Bromo Seltzer Tower, one of the city’s most iconic buildings. My suggestion for the perennial money loser would be to tear it down. Sure, that would cost taxpayers even more money, but it’s a reasonable fee to restore what was once a great urban vista.