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The B&O Railroad Museum announced its farmer’s market will return this Thursday for its third year. The museum partners with the Fells Point Farmers Market to bring the shopping experience to the museum’s front parking lot. The event will be held from 4:30 to 7:30 every Thursday until September 29. The market’s manager, Merritt Dworkin, plans to bring variety of new and familiar vendors to the weekly event, the museum said. It will be a one-stop shop for “fresh local produce, flowers, crafts, and a variety of food and desserts.”

Sugarloaf Business Center, a two-building complex in the hot Frederick County industrial market, has sold for $6.2 million. Adams-Aumiller Properties acquired the flex facility at 9639 Doctor Perry Road from RDV Investments LLC. Edge Capital Markets broker Joshua Norwitz represented the seller.

The fundraising campaign for the addition raised more than $50 million. The change in public health needs caused by the Covid-19 pandemic also impacted the design of the building, with more isolation rooms added to the design to care for patients with infectious diseases. “We’ve realized that we have to have the ability to take care of patients with Covid, or whatever we’re going to face five years from now,” Cullen said.

F.N.B. Corporation announced Tuesday it is making a $2.5 million equity commitment to Black Tech Nation Ventures (BTN.vc), a majority Black-owned venture capital fund based in Pittsburgh, which provides funding and resources for Black-led technology startups and firms with diverse founders and teams, with a goal of enabling wealth creation for underrepresented entrepreneurs in Maryland and throughout FNB’s seven-state footprint.

The Greater Washington Black Chamber of Commerce has hired a new president to lead the still-nascent organization. Aisha Bond, who spent six years as head of D.C. nonprofit development group North Capitol Main Street, will head the regional organization, which had just launched in the summer of 2019 before taking a pause during the pandemic.

Baby formula maker Abbott said Monday it has reached an agreement with U.S. health regulators to restart production at its largest domestic factory, though it will be well over a month before any new products ship from the site to help alleviate the national shortage facing parents. Abbott did not immediately detail the terms of the agreement with the Food and Drug Administration, which has been investigating safety concerns at its Sturgis, Michigan, plant since early this year. The consent decree amounts to a legally binding agreement between the FDA and the company on steps needed to reopen the factory.

The Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission announced Monday it will grant $7,067,409 in award funding to innovative research that will strengthen and advance stem cell treatments and technologies in Maryland. Awardees submitted proposals to the Commission in response to its Request for Applications (RFAs) for its second round of funding cycle in 2022. Recipients include 24 scientists accelerating research at Johns Hopkins University, Britecyte, Inc., RenOVAte Biosciences, Inc., RoosterBio, Inc., and the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

A judge has upheld a National Labor Relations Board ruling that gives disabled janitors working in Sinai Hospital of Baltimore’s Vocational Services Program, or VSP, the ability to unionize. In response to the May 10 decision, 1199 SEIU has reached out to VSP management about the court’s decision and has made a request to begin negotiating a collective bargaining agreement. Individuals in the program for disabled workers voted to unionize by a vote of 28 to 13 in December 2019.