{"id":572,"date":"2014-12-20T13:25:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T13:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/?p=572"},"modified":"2014-12-20T14:08:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T14:08:21","slug":"baltimore-running-festival-economic-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/news\/baltimore-running-festival-economic-impact","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Running Festival economic impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/files\/2014\/12\/baltimore-running-festival.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-573\" title=\"baltimore running festival\" src=\"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/files\/2014\/12\/baltimore-running-festival.jpg\" alt=\"baltimore running festival\" width=\"580\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/files\/2014\/12\/baltimore-running-festival.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/files\/2014\/12\/baltimore-running-festival-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-573 lazyload\" title=\"baltimore running festival\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20580%20384%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"baltimore running festival\" width=\"580\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20580%20384%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/files\/2014\/12\/baltimore-running-festival.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/files\/2014\/12\/baltimore-running-festival-300x199.jpg 300w\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/files\/2014\/12\/baltimore-running-festival.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BALTIMORE &#8211; Corrigan Sports Enterprises, Inc (CSE) announced the 2014 Baltimore Running Festival generated an estimated $40.2 million in economic impact according to a recent study by RESI, an economic research and consulting firm located at Towson University.&nbsp;&nbsp; The 14th event attracted 25,872 runners from 50 states and 23 foreign countries.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The event also generated $2.2 million in state and local tax revenues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Baltimore Running Festival\u2019s status as a global attraction equates to a tremendous stimulus for Baltimore tourism and the business community,\u201d stated Lee Corrigan, the event\u2019s Executive Director and President of CSE.&nbsp; &#8220;We are grateful for the amazing collaboration of nearly 20 city, state, and federal agencies combined with the support of our runners, sponsors and more than 1,000 volunteers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The single-year charitable proceeds generated by the event totaled $1.3 million.&nbsp; Kennedy Krieger Institute, The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Blind Industries and Services of Maryland (BISM), Sadie\u2019s Gift and Pacing 4 Parkinsons are some of the area\u2019s benefiting charities. More than $11 million has been raised for charity since the Running Festival\u2019s inaugural year in 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE &#8211; Corrigan Sports Enterprises, Inc (CSE) announced the 2014 Baltimore Running Festival generated an estimated $40.2 million in economic impact according to a recent study by RESI, an economic research and consulting firm located at Towson University.&nbsp;&nbsp; The 14th event attracted 25,872 runners from 50 states and 23 foreign countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[778,116,27,188,1,113],"tags":[197,781,766,779],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baltimore","category-business","category-events","category-featured","category-news","category-running","tag-197","tag-baltimore-running-festival","tag-runnews","tag-usbiznews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}