State of the Arts: The arts helped bring Highlandtown from ‘impending doom’ to a new direction

BY: Josh Cooper
POSTED: May 6, 2013
Tags: arts, Business, Butcher’s Hill, canton, Creative Alliance, Eastern Avenue, highlandtown, jobs, Megan Hamilton, Perry Sfikas, Regional Economic Studies Institute, shopping, towson university

The Creative Alliance, an arts promoter and venue helped create the Highlandtown Arts and Entertainment District in 2003, and continues to bring tourists and art enthusiasts to the neighborhood for art shows, concerts and classes. (Josh Cooper/The Daily Record)

Highlandtown, on the city’s east side near Canton and Butcher’s Hill, hasn’t enjoyed the status of “destination” in the same way some of its neighboring communities have.

State of the Arts: How the arts are changing perception, reality around North Avenue

BY: Josh Cooper
POSTED: May 6, 2013
Tags: Ben Stone, Cafe Sage, charles street, Charlie Duff, Dane Nester, Maryland Institute College of Art, north avenue, Pearson’s Florist, Regional Economic Studies Institute, station north, Station North Arts and Entertainment District, towson university, Vander Pearson

A sign denoting the Station North Arts and Entertainment District sits atop the Copycat Building, a former industrial warehouse turned artist housing project. (Josh Cooper/The Daily Record)

On the corner of Charles Street and North Avenue, in a florist’s shop that has been in that location for 30 years, sits Vander Pearson, answering phones and taking orders.

Sailabration’s economic impact $166.1M, study says

BY: Alexander Pyles
POSTED: October 18, 2012
Tags: Baltimore Grand Prix, Blue Angles, economic impact, forward analytics, Regional Economic Studies Institute, RESI, Sailabration, star-spangled sailabration, tall ships, towson university, Under Armour Running Festival

More than 28 percent of the more than 1.5 million people who attended The Star-Spangled Sailabration in July were from outside Maryland and 55 percent were from outside Baltimore County and the city of Baltimore, where the maritime and air displays took place.

The Star-Spangled Sailabration, a week-long celebration of the 200th anniversary of Francis Scott Key’s penning of The Star-Spangled Banner and War of 1812, generated an economic impact more than three times that of the inaugural Baltimore Grand Prix, according to a study released Thursday.

Private sector pushes jobless rate down

BY: Nicholas Sohr
POSTED: December 20, 2011
Tags: alexander m. sanchez, daraius irani, Department of Labor Licensing and Regulation, DLLR, jobless rate, maryland, pennsylvania, Regional Economic Studies Institute, Unemployment, unemployment rate, virginia

Maryland’s jobless rate dropped to 6.9 percent in November as payrolls swelled in the state for the third straight month, according to figures released Tuesday by the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation. The private sector did all of the heavy lifting, adding 4,300 jobs last month while government employment declined by 2,300, according to [...]

Editorial: Jobs crunch demands action

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: September 29, 2011
Tags: alexander m. sanchez, bureau of labor statistics, Economy, Editorial, General Assembly, Gov. Martin O’Malley, jobs, maryland, rate, Regional Economic Studies Institute, Unemployment
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August’s jobs numbers have landed on Maryland with a resounding thud — another 2,500 jobs lost and an increase to 7.3 percent in the statewide unemployment rate. Employment gains in some sectors (14,700 jobs have been added since January) have been overwhelmed by losses elsewhere. Alexander M. Sanchez, state Secretary of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, [...]