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Over the course of 48 home games, the team hosted 820,000 people at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. That's already more than the total attendance for the 2021 season.
At the pre-seed stage,
#startups
can't produce the kinds of metrics investors typically look at to determine if a company worthwhile. Instead,
@MacConwell
said he has to make bets on the amazing
#founders
behind the companies.
#venturecapital
#funding
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A "large gun apparatus" blasting cannabis smoke into the mouths of customers outside of Cookies in Federal Hill is one of several state regulation violations that led to the shop being shut down just days after its grand opening.
Luke Cooper, who's founding the fund, said he wants to be based in West
#Baltimore
because he wants kids to see Black founders going in and out of a multimillion-dollar
#venturecapital
firm in their own neighborhood.
The U.S. Air Force is looking to select an HBCU for a new university-affiliated research center that could eventually bring billions of dollars to the region. Morgan State is hoping to win the partnership.
The Enoch Pratt Free Library wants to create a concept that has many uses and is "not a space that is a repository for books," an architect for the project said.
#Baltimore
Mayor Brandon Scott has announced a new website where members of the public can track all aspects of how the city will spend $641 million in federal funds โ from application and evaluation, to spending and reporting.
#government
#funding
At the pre-seed stage,
#startups
can't produce the kinds of metrics investors typically look at to determine if a company worthwhile. Instead,
@MacConwell
said he has to make bets on the amazing
#founders
behind the companies.
#venturecapital
#funding
โ
The "floating wetlands" project will encompass 14,000 square feet between Piers 3 and 4 and be completed by fall 2022, National Aquarium CEO John Racanelli said.
Mayor Brandon Scott also said he will plan to give โone full weekโs notice, barring any emergencies, allowing those industries and individuals most impacted to make adjustments as necessaryโ if he alters existing Covid-19 restrictions.
#Baltimore
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Morgan State University is in line to get $2 million in federal funding for a new artificial intelligence research center that will focus on 'algorithmic biases' in AI.
In light of internet-access stumbles for families dealing with Comcast, City Council candidate and teacher Franca Muller Paz says Baltimore should start planning its own municipal broadband infrastructure.โ
#internet
#broadband
#access
#Baltimore
Black Women Build founder Shelley Halstead is seeking to transform three rundown properties in the Marble Hill neighborhood in Upton into housing, retail and community spaces.
@MacConwell
Congrats again
@MacConwell
๐ For those interested in reading about the cool VC/entrepreneurship work Mac is doing that made him a clear pick for our 2021 Faces to Watch can read our profile here:
As Novavax works to get its Covid-19 vaccine to the world and develops a Gaithersburg campus to manufacture its product long term, the company is putting another priority to at the top of its list: adapting its vaccine to the Omicron variant.
The
@BaltimoreCorps
program hired 275 people through January, 70% of whom live in the city, more than 65% of whom are Black, indigenous or of color, and over 85% of whom were previously furloughed, unemployed or underemployed.
#jobs
#Baltimore
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With the addition of several donated 3D printers from
@GilmanSchool
and others,
@LBHealth
may be able to produce about 500 protective face shields per week in house.
Peabody Heights Brewery has plans to add 60 to 70 arcade games to its Waverly taproom as part of an expansion that will also bring more seating and event space, grow beer service and upgrade brewing equipment.
In light of internet-access stumbles for families dealing with Comcast, City Council candidate and teacher Franca Muller Paz says Baltimore should start planning its own municipal broadband infrastructure.โ
The new for-profit private medical college on the campus of Morgan State University would be the first new osteopathic medical school at an HBCU in 45 years.
.
@MayorBMScott
announcement of the systemwide transformation comes as the city's spending board has recently devoted extra attention to reviewing contracts that do not meet required minority- and women-owned business participation goals.โ
#Baltimore
In light of internet-access stumbles for families dealing with Comcast, City Council candidate and teacher Franca Muller Paz says Baltimore should start planning its own municipal broadband infrastructure.โ
The new Plating Grace & Grub food truck will launch this month with a program to train returning citizens, as well as provide food from the
@fcbmore
to the city's homeless population.
.
@FatherLeoFeeds
#Baltimore
#food
#nonprofit
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Luke Cooper, who's founding the fund, said he wants to be based in West
#Baltimore
because he wants kids to see Black founders going in and out of a multimillion-dollar
#venturecapital
firm in their own neighborhood.
The U.S. Air Force is looking to select an HBCU for a new university-affiliated research center that could eventually bring billions of dollars to the region. Morgan State is hoping to win the partnership.
The $2.9 billion proposed light rail project could be coming back from the dead thanks to language included by Sens. Cardin and Van Hollen in the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
#Maryland
#Baltimore
#transportation
#politics
Baltimore's historically redlined neighborhoods stand to benefit from a new fund created to bridge the gap between home-renovation costs and how much those houses are appraised for.
#Baltimore
#Maryland
#politics
#realestate
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The campaign to organize graduate student students, who teach classes and work on research projects, picked up steam during the COVID-19 pandemic. If successful, the union would represent 3,335 workers.
To say
@SparkPost
has had a big year might be an understatement. The Columbia
#email
delivery firm raised a mega deal, was then purchased for $600 million and has since made an
#acquisition
of its own.
#tech
The University of Baltimore has hired Baltimore-based Zahlco to redevelop a vacant U.S. Postal vehicle maintenance center that the school acquired in 2019.
Gaithersburgโs Novavax has inked a three-year deal with the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute to make a key ingredient in its Covid-19 vaccine available for research.
Here are nine leaders in
#Baltimore
and
#Maryland
to watch in 2021, plus a handful of issues โ from
#vaccine
distribution to sports betting โ that will impact our state and our region.โ
#business