Up at Camden Yards, perusing the concourse unfettered before the Orioles-Mets game was a breeze.
Within the concourse, you walk, sometimes as much as a half mile, or ten city blocks, between gates.
The station foyer is manic, and an indicator board has recently been erected in the middle of the concourse.
BBC: News | UK | Commuting: A lottery for the visually impaired
Chiltern Railways wants to put a new Costa Coffee shop in place as part of a redevelopment of the concourse.
BBC: Banbury train station mural to go under coffee shop plans
When the station revamp is completed in 2015, the concourse will be three-and-a-half times bigger than the one it has replaced.
The underground station closed in April while work was carried out to refurbish the concourse and facilities, making it "lighter and brighter".
Inside, the concourse will be extended, a new mezzanine level food court added, along with an atrium link to the Buchanan Galleries shopping centre.
BBC: Network Rail announces Queen Street station revamp plan
On one of my trips to China, after passing through the security check, I went into the first duty-free store I saw on the concourse Gucci.
They are opening the concourse space and moving away from massive amounts of signage, in an effort to give advertisers value and fans space to communicate.
FORBES: Tom Gores Puts His Stamp On The Detroit Pistons With Arena Renovations
Shops at the front of the station will be demolished to show off the listed Victorian station entrance, and the Concourse Tower is to be replaced.
BBC: NEWS | UK | England | Merseyside | New look for Lime Street station
Along this retail gauntlet of cosmetics, alcoholic beverages and designer handbags, storefronts curve in and out of the concourse, and merchandise seems to spill out, as at no other airport.
Included in the upgrade are 300 HD monitors on the concourse, and the largest indoor center-hung scoreboard in the United States (Cowboys Stadium is considered outdoor because it has a retractable roof).
FORBES: Everything is Bigger in Texas: Houston Rockets Upgrade to Largest Video Board in NBA
To service their needs there are host of private companies in the concourse area that include a food court, pharmacies, laundry and dry cleaning services, a florist, a candy store, an electronics store and a barber shop.
His recent exhibitions include "Cosmos, " which is made of nearly 12, 000 LEDs and is at Cornell University's Johnson Museum's Mallin Sculpture Court, and "Multiverse, " with about 41, 000 LED lights on display in the concourse of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.
Dennis Roche, president of Access Sports Media, which operates screens hanging in the concourse of 47 professional sports arenas, said he is willing to risk some pricing erosion to get more dollars from ad categories that wouldn't necessarily buy space on his firm's screens.
When I emerged from my plane at one end of the concourse, I saw red columns in front of me, and it was only as I walked down the concourse that I saw that the columns were becoming orange, then yellow, then green and blue and violet.
And the Grand Concourse resembles the spacious Parisian thoroughfare it was modeled after, with a few bodegas thrown in for good luck.
The shopping concourse outside the hotel is overflowing with people: The Movenpick ice-cream stand is doing a roaring trade, so is the adjacent pizza joint.
People travelling from Moor Street station and pedestrians on Smallbrook Queensway are now able to reach the new concourse via the new Moor Street pedestrian walkway, which links the east side of the station to the new entrance on Stephenson Street.
Everyone has a story to tell about the white-collar sarariman who lost his job and then his family, and who now lives in a cardboard box on the station concourse, still reading the financial pages every day.
Research by TRI Hospitality Consulting said the city could support a 130-bedroom hotel at the station concourse.
If Diet Pepsi is a particuarly big seller at a refreshment stand on the upper concourse, Johnson will know immediately.
The Navigation Street footbridge has closed, so passengers using the Stephenson Street entrance are accessing the platforms via the new concourse instead.
However, that is about to change as the western concourse at King's Cross officially opens later, with commuters starting to use it from Monday.
BBC: Could King's Cross obtain 'destination station' status?
Compared with the impressive modernity of the facilities at Waterloo, the balconied holding areas above the domestic concourse that serve Eurostar seem distinctly tacked-on.
ECONOMIST: For some, France is still on the other side of the earth
The new large-scale renovations, most of which are projected to be completed by the beginning of the 2012-13 NBA season, include modifying and remodeling the main concourse level.
FORBES: Tom Gores Puts His Stamp On The Detroit Pistons With Arena Renovations
The raw, dark gray walls mark the dimensions of the future concourse eight stories high, about 70 feet wide and 1, 800 feet long, or about "five football fields, without the end zones, " Horodniceanu says.
Current NBA players Chandler Parsons, David Lee, Tyson Chandler, Stephen Curry, Steve Novak and Joakim Noah and retired Rockets center Yao Ming were among those who attended the event, held in the atrium and concourse at Minute Maid Park, home of the Houston Astros.
Then both (full) flights boarded from the same gate, jamming the entire winding concourse from top to bottom.
FORBES: The Travails Of Pakistan: Why Some Countries Don't Work
应用推荐