Business

From a company that manufactures natural supplements for pets to a coworking space with locations throughout the Baltimore-Washington metro area, 34 Maryland companies landed on Inc. Magazine’s list of fastest-growing companies in the mid-Atlantic region this year, including four in the top 10. Starting in 1982 as the Inc. 500, Inc. Magazine expanded its list to encompass the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in America in 2007.

Attention residents of Pikesville’s Pumpkin Hill Court, Hambleton Court and Hurlingham Court — Regina Trakhtman wants to sell your home. More specifically, the Realtor wants to find her client a single-family home within walking distance of her family’s synagogue and school, and those streets fit the bill. Trakhtman, an agent with the Home Access Group of Monument Sotheby’s International Realty, has sent out emails, postcards and even knocked on doors looking for Pikesville homeowners who might consider a sale.

James Joyce Irish Pub & Restaurant is headed for a revival under the ownership of the Atlas Restaurant Group. The Baltimore-based hospitality company recently leased the Harbor East Irish pub, one of several restaurants in the upscale waterfront neighborhood that closed in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. Atlas CEO Alex Smith said James Joyce will keep its name as well as some of its original furnishings, including a bartop imported from Ireland.

For Nakeia Drummond, creating a diverse and equitable workplace is not about which practices to put in place; it’s about leaders realigning core values. As the founder and CEO of equity-centered management consulting firm NLD Strategic, Drummond said in the past year or year and a half she had seen leaders of some major, big-name organizations step up and challenge themselves. But even then, she said, they are only taking the first steps of a long journey.

Following a green light from the Baltimore County Council, Pappas Seafood Co. will soon open a 7,500-square-foot crabcake distribution hub in Perry Hall. The council voted Monday night to approve a zoning change allowing the facility to open at 8801 Belair Road. Pappas staffers could move into the space within a few months, said managing partner and CFO Karen Zimmerer. Every year, Pappas ships some 3.5 million orders of its crabcakes, a noted favorite of Oprah Winfrey, Zimmerer said.

After a pair of marathon hearings, the proposed Margaritaville project moved two big steps closer to becoming a reality this week. The Mayor and Council on Monday had before them two separate issues related to the Margaritaville Hotel and Conference Center, which would encompass an entire city block downtown on the oceanside facing the Boardwalk between 13th Street and 14th Street.

About 460 new jobs are headed to Washington County, Maryland, with the expansion of global rail manufacturing company Hitachi Rail into a ground-up, $70 million plant in Hagerstown. The 307,000-square-foot factory is part of a national expansion for Pittsburgh’s Hitachi Rail and will support the company’s $2.2 billion contract to build a new fleet of 8000-series, all-electric cars for Metro operator the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.

Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger will unveil on Tuesday new legislation designed to help bring federal economic development incentives to Baltimore County’s Tradepoint Atlantic. The legislation, known as The Rust to Revitalization Act of 2022, aims to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 so that it includes a special rule for designating former industrial areas that share a border with designated “Opportunity Zones.”