BALTIMORE — Above the grandstand entrance and near a banner highlighting the upcoming 147th Preakness Stakes, a man in a neon yellow T-shirt rolled a fresh coat of white paint onto the aging facade of the Pimlico Race Course one recent morning. Below him, a crew repainted faded white lines on the cracked asphalt of the parking lot.
“It needs work,” one worker said of the fractured lot, “basically all of it.”
Next weekend, for the first time since the pandemic began more than two years ago, tens of thousands of people will flock to this historic, yet long-neglected, North Baltimore racetrack for a weekend of raucous revelry and racing.
