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North Ave. Market is closing its doors, the business announced Monday on Facebook and Instagram. The latest iteration of the combination arcade, bar, and music venue located in the Station North Arts District opened in early 2020. The arcade’s Facebook page, which describes itself as “not your average market!” said the space was permanently closed Monday.

It’s been a long time coming, but the Paramount Baltimore music hall is on track to host concerts and other live acts within the next year. The venue, under construction at 1300 Warner St. near the Horseshoe Casino and the Ravens’ M&T Bank Stadium, is slated to be complete by next summer, according to an official involved in the project. Paramount Baltimore Director Robert Goldstein said he hopes the opening will happen “earlier in the summer” of 2023.

Berta Sabrio was recently appointed to become the new executive director of the Columbia Orchestra. Sabrio joins the Columbia Orchestra with an extensive background in nonprofit leadership. Before joining the staff, Sabrio held the position of deputy director for the National Association of Pastoral Musicians. Prior to that, she served as the pastoral associate at St. Francis of Assisi in Howard County. She holds a bachelor of music in vocal performance from Loyola University New Orleans.

Employees at Mom’s Organic Market in Baltimore’s Hampden neighborhood voted 58-5 to form a union with Teamsters Local 570. Moses Jackson, the vice president of Local 570, said employees at Mom’s voted overwhelmingly in favor of forming a union Friday night. Rank-and-file employees at the supermarket had filed a petition for a representation election last month in their effort to unionize 75 workers, including all “full-time and part-time generalists, coffee roast, grocery, wellness, produce, naked lunch and cashiers.” Jackson, speaking after the election, said the vote means “for the first time, they will have a say at their job.”

DLA Piper, a global law firm with Baltimore roots, is moving its Baltimore office back downtown after more than two decades just outside the city limits near Mount Washington, with plans to relocate to Harbor East next summer. The law firm, formerly Piper & Marbury in Baltimore before two mergers, plans to announce Monday that it signed a 10-year-lease for one floor, more than 34,000 square feet, at 650 S. Exeter St. Before moving what was then the state’s largest law firm to a low-rise office building off Smith Avenue in 2000, the firm had its office downtown in a tower at 36 S. Charles St. It currently occupies 123,000 square feet in the glassy, cube-like Marbury Building in Pikesville, some of it originally needed for file storage and support functions.

President Biden’s announcement that it would cancel up to $20,000 in federal student loan debt prompted pushback from opponents — who then had their own Paycheck Protection Program loans thrown back at them. The Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan, unveiled Wednesday, would also extend the pause on student loan repayment and restructure income-based forgiveness, comes with a roughly $500 billion price tag. Biden’s plan has drawn criticism from many Republicans who have argued the plan is unfair to taxpayers and those who had students loans that weren’t forgiven, and that’s how PPP found itself back in the spotlight. Many high-profile opponents have found their own acceptance and forgiveness of PPP loans floated as hypocritical when it comes to forgiving debts.

Theresa B. Felder, president of Harford Community College, has been selected as one of 26 leaders in the 2022-23 class of the Aspen Institute’s new presidents fellowship. The program supports community college presidents in the early years of their tenure as they work to achieve higher levels of student success. “I am truly honored to be selected as a member of the 2022-23 Aspen new presidents fellowship class,” Felder said. “I look forward to working with the Aspen Institute and my fellow presidents to identify best practices that will support equitable outcomes for all students at Harford Community College…”