County to Help Fund Owings Mills Stadium Project

After more than three decades of not having a true stadium experience for its players, coaches and fans, Owings Mills High School appears to finally be on the fast track toward constructing the facility it’s desperately been waiting to build.

In a letter to project leader Matt Allen of Owings Mills Sports Boosters, Inc., Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz announced that the county is equipped to provide the necessary finances for the high school to reach its $375,000 funding goal and begin construction on the stadium.

“Although these are very difficult economic times in Baltimore County, I am eager to help move this project forward to enhance the educational opportunities for the young men and women in the Owings Mills community,” Kamenetz said in the letter. “Owings Mills is a wonderful community, and its students deserve a stadium. I look forward to attending the grand opening of this new facility.”

Kamenetz has instructed County Budget Director Keith Dorsey to immediately appropriate the $240,000 necessary to complete the funding of the project. Prior to the announcement, Owings Mills had raised $35,000 in private funding, in addition to the $100,000 it was set to receive in state grants.

“I think it’s great for the school and the entire community that we’ll be able to have a place that everyone can come on a Friday night and congregate and enjoy a good athletic contest,” Owings Mills Athletic Director Brian Bandurchin said. “It’s great for us, the guys that were working on it, but it’s even better for the students that will be able to take advantage of it.”  

Speaking about the stadium project , Allen estimated that once Owings Mills had the funding in place, the new facilities, which will include home and away bleachers, a press box, on-site restrooms and a handicapped parking pad, could be constructed in anywhere between four to six months.