Another blow has been dealt to Columbia’s village center concept with the closing of Michael’s Pub. Last call is Tuesday. Since opening in 1986, Michael’s Pub has carved out a reputation as something of an anomaly in suburbia: a neighborhood ...

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WASHINGTON — Nurses at Washington’s largest hospital have begun a one-day strike over wages and patient care. Nurses were protesting outside the Washington Hospital Center on Friday morning. They began the strike at 7 a.m., and it is supposed to ...

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Charm City Hospitality was named Wednesday as the food and beverage concessionaire for Artscape, Baltimore’s annual free art festival. The Columbia-based business was granted a multiyear contract for 2011 through 2013, said officials from the Baltimore Office of Promotion & ...

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Royal DSM NV, the world’s biggest maker of vitamins, said Tuesday it will bid $1.09 billion in cash for Columbia-based biotech firm Martek Biosciences Corp., in a management-endorsed buyout that would improve its presence on the American infant formula market. ...

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Gryphon Investors, a San Francisco-based private equity firm, said it has acquired Ann’s House of Nuts Inc. of Columbia, the largest manufacturer and marketer of trail mixes in North America. Simultaneously with that transaction, Gryphon also purchased American Importing Co. ...

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Howard County Executive Ken Ulman announced that the county has received funding for a public transit project that will add three full-size, lightweight electric buses to the Howard Transit fleet for use in and around Columbia. The buses’ batteries are ...

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General Growth Properties emerged this week from the Chapter 11 bankruptcy that it had been operating under for the past 16 months, and announced that it will sell the Gateway Overlook Shopping Center in Columbia for a gross sale price ...

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The 15-year-old company built around sustainable environmental planning practiced what it has preached when it cut the ribbon on a recycled 25-year-old office building at 10255 Old Columbia Rd. last month. With a $700,000 budget, designers showed Straughan’s environmental scientists ...

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COLUMBIA – Merkle Inc. of  Columbia, a provider of customer relationship marketing services, said it has added beer producer Anheuser-Busch Cos. and motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson Inc. to its mobile marketing accounts, and has hired an experienced executive to oversee the ...

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LOS ANGELES — General Growth Properties Inc., whose Maryland properties include Harborplace, Towson Town Center and the Mall in Columbia, said Thursday that a bankruptcy judge has approved its reorganization plan, clearing the way for the nation’s second-largest shopping mall ...

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