Baltimore’s floating wetlands are growing. Volunteers plan to add another 2,000 square feet of the manmade marshes in front of the World Trade Center in the Inner Harbor later this month. Two years ago, students from Baltimore’s Living Classrooms Foundation ...

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Baltimore entrepreneurs and startup companies received a $3.3 million boon Tuesday with the formation of a new angel investment fund. Through the “Propel Baltimore Fund,” a joint effort by The Abell Foundation, a Baltimore-based nonprofit, and the Maryland Technology Development ...

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Medical center promotes Perkins Sherry Perkins has been promoted to the position of chief operating officer of Anne Arundel Medical Center, in Annapolis. She joined the hospital in 2006 as chief nursing officer and became senior vice president, patient care ...

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Smith leads board of transit system Chris Smith, vice president of sales & marketing for The Barbour Group, has been appointed chairman of the Carroll Area Transit System’s board of directors. The transit system is a private 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation providing ...

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Chris Wood has joined Severn Savings Bank as senior vice president in the community mortgage lending group. He will work in the Westgate Circle headquarters in Annapolis. Wood most recently was sales manager of the Annapolis and Waldorf offices of ...

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Chris Wood has joined Severn Savings Bank as senior vice president in the community mortgage lending group. He will work in the Westgate Circle headquarters in Annapolis. Wood most recently was sales manager of the Annapolis and Waldorf offices of ...

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A city task force examining taxpayer incentives to developers is recommending new criteria for the awards, including profit sharing on all projects, independent monitors and possible use of such inducements to help rebuild Baltimore’s middle class. During a hearing at ...

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One of the newest members of Baltimore’s tech community, Pixelligent LLC, landed $5.1 million from the Abell Foundation and the Baltimore Development Corp., the company said Monday. Pixelligent focuses on nanocrystal additives, which are used in the manufacture of synthetic ...

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You might start seeing this “SolarBee” floating in the harbor soon. Blue Water Baltimore, the Baltimore Harbor Waterkeeper and KCI Technologies are partnering up on a pilot project to study the aeration and mixing in the waters of Baltimore’s harbor. The ...

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A task force studying public financing for large city developments on Tuesday debated how to prioritize such projects to share the wealth across Baltimore’s communities. The Task Force on Baltimore City Public-Private Development Financing Efforts is expected to release a ...

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