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Encore: in Baltimore, ambitious renovation and expansion projects have the spotlights shining...

Timing is everything in the theater and performing arts, as well as in building design and construction. In Baltimore, the economic prosperity of the mid- and late-1990s made it possible for three venerable performing arts centers to receive welcome renovations that, for the most part, were long overdue.

The innovative restoration of the Hippodrome theater, originally a vaudeville theater built in 1914, is drawing theatergoers in droves and leading a resurgence of downtown Baltimore's once-decaying west side.

The two other renovation projects reside in two r

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