Business

Keeping bees can do more than just provide you with fresh honey, but bees are fickle and tending a hive can be difficult. A Westminster entrepreneur believes she has found the solution, and it’s called HiiveCo, a company that installs and manages beehives for clients on their own properties. Laith Nichols of Westminster, owner and founder of HiiveCo, tends to a hive in Sparks Glencoe.

A Los Angeles-based restaurant chain is bringing its authentic hot chicken to Anne Arundel County, the company announced. Crimson Coward Nashville Hot Chicken is set to open a location in Pasadena by the end of this year, according to a news release from Hyatt Commercial, the commercial real estate firm representing the restaurant chain. The restaurant, which has sold the famously spicy chicken since 2018, will be located in the Lake Shore Plaza shopping mall on Mountain Road.

As more states make the move to legalize marijuana, a growing number of businesses are eliminating or drastically changing their drug testing policies. “The majority still have their drug-free workplace policies in place,” said Amber Clayton, senior director of Knowledge Center Operations at the Society of Human Resources Management.

Last year, Sarah Clark and her dad bought tickets to see Disney’s “Strange World” at Warehouse Cinemas Frederick. They were promised that the showing would include open captions — which provide a descriptive transcript of the audio of a movie, and are burned into the video itself, meaning they can’t be turned off like closed captions can be.

Baltimore Center Stage is celebrating the launch of single ticket sales for their 2023/2024 season with an exclusive offer beginning Aug. 1. For a limited time only, theater audience members can purchase single tickets at 50% off the retail price for five of BCS’s productions this season. This “early bird deep discount” is available from Aug. 1-4, or until 500 tickets have been sold.

Special-purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, may have fallen out of favor in the past year as a corporate vehicle to acquire and take companies public — but a Gaithersburg group is forging ahead despite those odds. Blank-check company 99 Acquisition Group Inc., was formed and led by Hiren Patel as chairman and CEO, who’s also CEO of D.C.-area e-commerce, real estate and contracting firm Intelvative.

T. Rowe Price Group, the investment firm headquartered in Baltimore, is cutting 2% of its workforce, a spokesperson confirmed Thursday. The spokesperson did not did not say whether any Baltimore-area employees are affected. In addition to its headquarters at 100 E. Pratt Street in downtown Baltimore, T. Rowe Price also has a corporate campus in Owings Mills.

Flights to several destinations from Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport are spiking despite the airport serving fewer customers and offering fewer flights this month than in July 2019. BWI Airport scheduled 12.8% fewer flights in July 2023 than July 2019, but available seats only dropped 2.2%, according to statistics from data aviation company Cirium Inc.