Business

A job fair hosted by the Baltimore City Department of Public Works drew hundreds to the Chick Webb Recreation Center in the Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood Saturday. Department of Public Works Chief Administrative Officer Deepti Modha said the department is hiring for a host of positions including truck drivers, laborers and solid waste workers, as well as for various types of apprenticeships.

While Baltimore is synonymous with steamed crabs and crab cakes, the overall seafood scene, in my humble opinion, is unparalleled. Local restaurants expertly bring the bounty of the Chesapeake Bay to your table, and they do great work with seafood from all over. Here are some of the most delicious culinary creations from our local Baltimore chefs that don’t have the region’s famed blue crab meat.

Great Wolf Lodge Maryland’s opening has been pushed up to June 29. Progress on the new resort coming to Perryville is moving swiftly. It was previously scheduled to open in August, then during a construction tour in February, the company announced it would open on July 15. Families are now able to book stays at the lodge for June 29 and beyond, including the Fourth of July weekend, according to Mackenzie Fox, a spokesperson for Great Wolf Lodge.

Another Baltimore developer has moved into the Florida market. St. John Properties said Thursday its latest national expansion will be into Central Florida. The Woodlawn-based firm has opened an office in Industrious, a coworking facility in downtown Tampa, and is eyeing projects in Hillsborough, Manatee, Pasco and Polk counties.

Stu Czapski recalled numerous vacant buildings and “for sale” signs that afflicted Baltimore Street downtown in recent years. Today, all but two of those properties have been purchased, he said. “That in and of itself is telling,” Czapski, economic development specialist for the Cumberland Economic Development Corp., said Wednesday of the impact a plan to revitalize downtown has made so far.

Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital (MWPH), co-owned by University of Maryland Medical System and Johns Hopkins Medicine, Wednesday announced Dr. Scott M. Klein, MD, MHSA, has been selected as the new president and CEO at Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital. Klein, who was chosen following a comprehensive national search, will begin July 1.

A few weeks ago, I took note in this column of Baltimore’s growing wealth of bakeries. That story focused on the newcomers, but it’s impossible to overlook the city’s share of baking businesses that have been run by the same family for generations. Many have become synonymous with favorite treats: If you’re searching for cannolis, try Vaccaro’s, in business since 1965; for sweet buns, there’s Woodlea, run by the Hergenroeder family since 1943; for marshmallow-stuffed doughnuts, go to Herman’s, owned and operated by the Herman family for a century.