Business

Sarah Taylor, one of the owners of All The Rage Vintage in Annapolis which opened in November, said she has some concerns with the recent rise of COVID-19 cases and how it might affect business in the new year. Located at 208 West St., the business is in the Arts District of downtown that garners a lot of foot traffic.

On a warm fall afternoon, Freeman A. Hrabowski III made his way through his college campus, past glassy buildings and manicured grass. It wasn’t always like this, he says. “In my early years as president, the first year, kids were accustomed just to dropping paper all around.” On some campuses, the president can be a somewhat obscure figure. He is probably older, White. Students see him only at big events.

Max McGee graduated from Cherry Hill East High School in New Jersey with ambitions of playing Major League Baseball, but his name wasn’t called when MLB held its amateur draft in 2010. McGee didn’t have the academic credentials to get into a school that offered Division I baseball, so he enrolled at Camden County College. He tried out for the baseball team and got cut, which he said sent him spiraling.

The Baltimore City residential market had one of its strongest years ever in 2021 as home buyers flocked to the city in search of an affordable alternative to the pricier suburban housing markets. The city saw a whopping $2.6 billion in sales last year as well as 11,358 total sales, according to figures released this week as part of Live Baltimore’s annual report detailing the local housing market. The median sales price for city properties was $200,000, which was 15% higher year-over-year, and the average days on market was 31.

More than 1,100 Maryland residents will get more than $34 million in student loan debt relief to settle charges of abusive practices by student loan servicer Navient, the state Attorney General’s office said Thursday. Navient, one of the nation’s largest student loan servicers, will provide $1.85 billion in restitution in Maryland, 38 other states and Washington, D.C. The settlement resolves allegations of unfair and deceptive loan servicing practices and abuses in originating predatory loans, Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh announced.

A Georgia-based developer has purchased a Riva Road property across from the Annapolis Town Center for $30 million with plans to construct a massive residential and retail development. SJC Ventures, formerly known as SJ Collins Enterprises, completed the purchase in late December for 2500 Riva Road, according to a news release from Hyatt Commercial, which brokered the sale.

Metro riders can expect the current level of limited rail service to continue for three more months after the transit agency’s top official said Thursday that Metro wants to focus on finding the “root cause” of a defect that has sidelined more than half its rail cars since mid-October. Metro’s 7000-series cars were briefly reinstated in December before a regulatory agency suspended them a second time after Metro failed to follow its own guidelines for safety inspections.

Governor Larry Hogan on Thursday awarded governor’s citations to H&S Bakery and an Ellicott City couple who helped feed stranded drivers on an icy stretch of Virginia interstate last week. Casey Holihan and her husband, John Noe, were on a five-hour road trip from Ellicott City to North Carolina to visit family before Noe headed to Germany on a military deployment. That five-hour trip turned into more than 30 hours when they hit I-95 in Virginia.