Business

A new grant program launched in Frederick, Maryland, aims to support minority and women-owned small businesses. “The program is designed to support and empower,” said Shana Knight, community engagement specialist with the city of Frederick. “The thought process behind it is that the No. 1 issue for minority and women-owned small businesses is access to capital, so we just want to provide opportunities for that, that will allow these businesses to grow,” Knight added.

A total of 50 Baltimore students are participating in the eighth annual Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport Summer Youth Initiative, which kicked off Monday. The students will spend a full week meeting with airport, transportation and business leaders and participating in activities to learn about the wide range of career opportunities in aviation.

Updated plans for the high-profile redo of Harborplace were received with optimism by a city design panel and show a new series of wider entrances off Calvert and South streets to better knit the waterfront with the city. The proposed changes were the latest in an ongoing and often bumpy discussion over the design and scope of the revitalization of the Inner Harbor site before the city’s Urban Design and Architecture Advisory Panel, or UDAAP.

Next year, 65 of the world’s best professional bass anglers will be headed to Marbury, Maryland. Major League Fishing announced last week that stage six of the 2025 Bass Pro Tour season will take place in Charles County on The Potomac River at Smallwood State Park from June 26 through the 29. Charles County Recreation, Parks and Tourism is hosting the four-day event, which will net a $150,000 prize for the winner.

Gov. Wes Moore on Friday congratulated Belgian company Cenergy Holdings on its plans to establish a cable manufacturing facility in Maryland. Its U.S. subsidiary, Hellenic Cables Americas, has officially acquired a 38 acre property in Wagner’s Point along the Patapsco River in Baltimore, where it will support hundreds of direct and indirect jobs.

After heart palpitations sent him to the hospital in summer 2020, Joyson BaLisamore began thinking about ways to address what he saw as a major — and suddenly personal — problem in the Baltimore region: heart disease. Last August, he founded Jay’s Watermelonade, a Baltimore start-up that focuses on promoting watermelon and what it says are its heart benefits as an alternative to sugary drinks.

Clearway Pain Solutions has signed a lease with Padonia Place LP for 10,490 square feet of space at 2405 York Road to elevate occupancy of the three-story medical office building in Timonium to 100%. The pain management medical practice leased 6,400 square feet of space on the ground floor of the 24,800 square foot building and an additional 4,100 square feet of space on the second floor.