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The next stop on the Papi’s Tacos expansion kick could be Northeast Baltimore. The Baltimore-based Mexican eatery is in talks to sign a lease in the SoHa Union building in Hamilton-Lauraville, owner Charlie Gjerde said this week. “We have a space that’s perfect inside and it’s a good fit for Papi’s,” Gjerde said. “We’re just exploring the neighborhood now.”

More than 60 workers across three Amazon delivery stations staged a walkout on Wednesday to demand a $3 raise and a return to 20-minute breaks, according to one of the labor organizers leading the effort. Ellie Pfeffer, an organizer and warehouse associate at an Amazon delivery station called ZYO1 in Queens, New York, said five people walked out of her station Wednesday in a shift that only has nine workers. She said 28 employees walked out of another station in the borough, called DBK1, and 30 more at the DMD9 station in Upper Marlboro, Maryland.

Amazon said Tuesday it will spend more than $120 million to build affordable-housing units close to transit stations near Seattle and Washington, D.C, the latest example of a tech company trying to address the affordable housing crisis critics say the industry has exacerbated. Amazon said it is working with Sound Transit and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to construct a total of 1,060 homes near four public transit sites. The Washington state sites are in SeaTac and Bellevue.

A salvage team and naval architects are working together to figure out how to free a cargo ship stuck in Chesapeake Bay. The Ever Forward, a 1,095-foot container ship, was headed from the Port of Baltimore to Norfolk, Virginia, when it ran aground Sunday night, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The Hong-Kong flagged ship is not blocking any navigation, unlike its sister vessel, the Ever Given, which got stuck and blocked traffic for days in the Suez Canal nearly a year ago.

Athletic directors at Maryland’s public universities have been tested like never before during the Covid-19 pandemic but a policy change could be coming to make managing their budgets a bit easier in the future. The University System of Maryland’s Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics and Student-Athlete Health and Welfare received an update on the financial condition of the athletic departments at state universities on Monday. The briefing provided a glimpse into ways athletic directors coped with lost revenue from spectator bans and other issues related to Covid-19.

Bars and strip clubs on The Block in Baltimore would be able to dodge a threatened 10 p.m. early closing time by meeting a slate of security requirements under a revised version of a bill cracking down on the city’s adult entertainment district that passed the Maryland Senate on Tuesday. The bars and clubs would no longer face the possibility of having to pay for two off-duty city police officers to patrol the short stretch of East Baltimore Street during the busiest 15 hours of each week.

Almost a quarter of the teams playing in this year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament will don the Under Armour Inc. logo on their uniforms. Baltimore-based Under Armour (NYSE: UAA) will outfit 16 of the 68 teams, or 23.5% of this year’s field, according to Apex Marketing Group. That’s six more teams than the sportswear maker outfitted last year and represents the second-most teams it has ever had representing the brand in the NCAA Tournament. Under Armour’s high mark came in in 2019 when it had 17 teams participate.