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Kaiser Permanente has named its next Mid-Atlantic leader, about six months after Ruth Williams-Brinkley, its regional president of more than three years, announced her intention to retire. The Oakland, California-based health care giant said Tuesday it has tapped Chicago-area public health executive Israel Rocha as its next regional president, set to assume the position Dec. 4.

Troy A. LeMaile-Stovall believes that the way to rev up Maryland’s economic engine for technology companies is through inclusive entrepreneurial innovation. As CEO of Columbia-based TEDCO, LeMaile-Stovall, 59, has ensured that the state’s tech industry continues to find support as it grows. “[We want to] serve the entire ecosystem and all those in it to ensure that all ideas, all innovations have a place to be seen, heard, nurtured, launched and grown in Maryland.

Nearly 35 years after playing a key role in the design and construction of Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Janet Marie Smith is at the forefront of another groundbreaking in the city. The former Orioles vice president is opening a Baltimore office for the Canopy Team, the planning and development firm specializing in the design of professional sports venues and their neighborhood surroundings she founded in Los Angeles.

The Mount Airy Planning Commission on Monday reviewed a detailed summary for the proposed Greentree Village project — a mixed-use development that received pre-concept sketch plan approval from the town in September 2022. The proposed development — the first of its kind to go through the town’s development review process — would be built on 12.67 acres near the intersection of North Main Street and Candice Drive on the Carroll County side of town.

Bertha’s Mussels — a 51-year relic of a Fells Point era gone by — took its final curtain call Monday night, owner and co-founder Tony Norris said. The Fells Point landmark had become one of Baltimore’s most recognizable restaurants, with loyal patrons smacking their signature “EAT BERTHA’S MUSSELS” bumper stickers on objects far and wide, while on trips to destinations such as the Great Wall of China and the South pole.

Candice Bruno was excited when she saw the JumboFresh Supermarket sign on the former Price Rite building in Southwest Baltimore. For nearly a year, the building in the Mount Clare Junction shopping center has been empty, and Bruno and others have had to go outside the neighborhood for groceries.

The bustling Greater Baltimore restaurant scene has welcomed around 50 new spots already this year and there is more to come by 2024. Around 10 restaurants are expected to debut in the region in the last quarter of the year, helping offset the roughly 20 spots that have closed in the region so far this year.