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An Ohio glazing company will soon expand into a Baltimore County building that once held David Edward Furniture. Pioneer Cladding & Glazing Systems Inc. recently acquired the 103,640-square-foot warehouse at 1407 Parker Road in Halethorpe as well as a small flat-surface parking lot at 1441 Knecht Ave. for $10.34 million, officials at MacKenzie Commercial Real Estate Services, which brokered the deal, said Monday.

As Rumbidzai Mangwende started to run out of makeup her freshman year in college she wasn’t quite sure what to do. The then Loyola University Maryland student didn’t have time in her busy schedule to walk the several blocks to get to the store — not to mention it was in a part of town, the Homeland neighborhood, that Mangwende didn’t feel comfortable going alone. There also was a possibility the store wouldn’t even have the right color for her Black skin tone, too.

Horseshoe Casino in Baltimore is ready to fill dozens of available positions, and it is hosting two hiring events this week for those interested in joining its team. The casino is hiring for table games, food and beverage, the cage, slots, Ceasars Sportsbook and more. Ceasars said incentives include “a comprehensive benefits package and a growing career path for all new hires.

As the Domino Sugar refinery in Baltimore officially crossed the century mark last month, two of the biggest construction projects the plant has ever undertaken are taking shape. The first project, which is scheduled to be completed in October, will allow the waterfront refinery to nearly quadruple its storage of finished sugar from 4.6 million pounds to an additional 14 million. The other project will rebuild the raw sugar storage shed that burned to the ground in a roaring, three-alarm fire last year.

A Towson wealth management firm is increasing its office space by 5,000 square feet after nearly doubling its assets under management over the past five years. WMS Partners will move its office two blocks south next month into about 17,000 square feet at 1 W. Pennsylvania Ave. The firm previously had about 12,000 square feet at 1 Olympic Place. The move will give the firm more room to accommodate its growing number of employees and comes as WMS Partners is also considering ways to grow further through potential acquisitions, said CEO Todd Wickwire.

An 88-acre redevelopment north of Johns Hopkins Hospital is poised to add dozens of new townhomes in the coming two years. Local developer Mayson-Dixon Cos. has formed a partnership with Charm City Buyers to build a 68-unit townhouse development on two lots off of Eager Park where the city helped launch a massive overhaul in 2001. The $16 million Eager Landing will be developed by the group’s Eager Park Partners and the nonprofit East Baltimore Development Inc., or EBDI. The project is expected to finish by summer 2024.