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A medical supply company founded in the early stages of the pandemic said Wednesday that it intends to build a $350 million glove-manufacturing facility at Tradepoint Atlantic and ultimately bring more than 2,000 new jobs to the Baltimore County site through a multiphase, three-year development. If all goes to plan, United Safety Technology will move into a 735,000-square-foot former Bethlehem Steel warehouse and make nitrile gloves — the kind worn every day by clinicians, doctors, dentists and first responders — as early as the first quarter of next year.

More than half of the restaurants shuttered by the city’s health department so far this year have been cited, not for the usual offenses, such as rodents or lack of hot water, but for operating without a valid license or permit. That’s significantly higher than in prior years and many restaurant owners blame the city, saying it is behind on issuing the paid-for permits as well as scheduling necessary zoning hearings, leading to delays in opening and affecting their ability to do business as the pandemic eases.

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.