Tradepoint Atlantic is getting a massive container terminal that will stretch 165 acres at the former Sparrows Point steel mill site in order to support growth at the Port of Baltimore. The terminal is expected to bring 1,000 new jobs to Tradepoint, officials said Tuesday, which eight years ago welcomed its first tenant, FedEx Ground and today has leased warehouse space to 19 other large, national corporations like Amazon, Home Depot, McCormick & Co. Inc. and Under Armour Inc. It will also serve to help the Port of Baltimore expand by supporting the volume of containers delivered to the port and at Tradepoint in the coming decades, said William P. Doyle, executive director of the port.

With a lead in the polls and Election Day a mere two weeks away, Brooke Lierman may be staring down a seat in the state comptroller’s office. “I think my record of getting things done, you know, stands apart from many others and demonstrates to Marylanders that I will be ready to go on Day One,” she said in an interview. A civil and disability rights attorney and mother of two elementary-aged children, Lierman is finishing her second term as a Maryland state delegate, where she co-chairs a Special Joint Committee on Pensions and has served on the House Appropriations Committee. She practices procurement law, representing blind-owned businesses with federal contracts. Her battle for the office with Harford County Executive Barry Glassman, a Republican, may be the closest of the three statewide races for governor, attorney general and comptroller.

Get ready: Another covid wave is on the horizon because of a new immunity-evading subvariant, BQ.1, and its offshoots. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says, based in part on models, that BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 now account for nearly 17 percent of infections in the United States, up from zero a few weeks ago. The prevalent BA.5 variant is starting to fade. Especially at risk are the unvaccinated and those who have not gotten a shot of the new boosters. Right now, the pandemic in the United States is in a lull, and overall levels remain relatively low. There are 260,808 new reported cases a week and 2,566 weekly deaths, the CDC said, partially based on modeling. Covid-19 has been one of the leading causes of death in the United States, but the numbers are far smaller than during the omicron surge last winter.

Recently we met an entrepreneur who had built a successful financial technology company in the Bay Area. She, her husband and their young children had just moved to Wheeling, West Virginia, drawn by the lower cost of land and what she described as the “hip” cultural scene. They are early pioneers in what will be a decades-long migration of remote workers out of high-cost cities like San Francisco. This restructuring of the U.S. economy creates a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Baltimore. The city should position itself as a remote work hub, a place where white-collar workers no longer tied to corporate headquarters can find cheaper housing, cheaper living, great food, vibrant arts and beautiful outdoor spaces.

A new $1.5 million grant from the Maryland Department of Commerce announced Tuesday matches private funding for Notre Dame of Maryland University’s recently established endowed chair position in biology to advance groundbreaking research and scholarship. Named in honor of one of Notre Dame’s most distinguished alumnae, the Dr. Mary Kay Shartle Galotto ’64 Endowed Chair in the Biological Sciences, will provide additional support for a scientist to collaborate with NDMU undergraduate students and faculty on interdisciplinary research needed to solve complex global challenges. The position will also strengthen existing community partnerships and develop new ones to bolster the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan region’s growing bioscience and health industry.

Baltimore’s newest entertainment district now has a new name. The Walk @ Warner Street, aims to be a destination for those who wish to golf, gamble and watch live music in Baltimore. The area, just south of M&T Bank Stadium and Orioles Park at Camden Yards, now has more than $100 million of private investment helping it take shape. By the time The Walk @ Warner Street is fully ready for consumers, partners said that number will double. The area now looks like a construction site but within the next year it will be a pedestrian-friendly thoroughfare that connects the stadiums and the district. The Walk @ Warner Street, already home to the 8-year-old Horseshoe Casino, will soon welcome a 65,000-square-foot Topgolf complex and the Paramount Baltimore, a concert venue under construction that will have a seating capacity of 4,000.

Bethesda, Maryland-based Marriott International, which entered the all-inclusive resort business in 2019, has signed a management agreement for a W-branded, adults-only, all-inclusive resort in the Dominican Republic. The announcement comes a month after Marriott opened another all-inclusive resort in the Dominican Republic, the Sanctuary Cap Cana, its 30th all-inclusive property in the Caribbean and Latin America. The new resort, expected to open in 2024, will be the 349-room W All-Inclusive Punta Cana Uvero Alto, a beachfront resort with spa, three pools with pool bars and 11 restaurants and bars.

Nobody asked me, but the major renovation of Baltimore’s downtown arena, now named CFG Bank Arena, affirms what many said or had to admit after years of debate: There’s no better location for this venue than “where it’s been at” since 1962. Nobody asked me, but the request by Marilyn Mosby’s lawyers to move her federal trial out of Baltimore sounds like desperation, and I doubt it will work. A judge would only agree to a change of venue in the unlikely event that she could not find 12 potential jurors (plus alternates) who affirm that they can consider evidence fairly. However futile, the motion for a change will give Mosby’s lawyers, in voir dire, a better feel for jurors’ attitudes, and that’s more than what attorneys might get in more routine cases.

When voters consider their ballots in the general election, they’ll face five questions that would change the Maryland Constitution. Question 1: Renaming the state’s appeals courts- Maryland’s two appeals courts are confusingly named: The Court of Special Appeals is the lower court, and the Court of Appeals is the state’s highest court. This constitutional amendment, if approved, would rename the courts as the “Appellate Court of Maryland” and the “Supreme Court of Maryland.” If the name change goes through, the judges on the state’s highest court would also see their titles changed to “justice” or “chief justice.”