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National ice cream brand Ben & Jerry’s is opening a shop at the Baltimore Peninsula development at the newly-opened Rye House apartment building. The shop, which will open next year, will sell ice cream, frozen yogurt, sorbet, and non-dairy products. Ben & Jerry’s was founded in 1978 in Burlington, VT by Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield. Ben & Jerry’s flavors can be found in grocery stores, restaurants, and at more than 200 of its owns stores throughout the country.

Constellation Energy Corp. is closing 2023 the same way it started the year, buying back its own stock. The Baltimore-based clean energy giant will spend another $1 billion on stock buybacks, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing last week. The latest round of buybacks comes as Constellation (Nasdaq: CEG) is nearing the end of its 2023 goal of buying back $1 billion worth of its stock.

Choice Hotels held a ribbon-cutting Tuesday for the grand opening of its new North Bethesda headquarters, with many public officials, including Gov. Wes Moore (D), in attendance. The headquarters, which takes up a little over four floors at 915 Meeting St., will provide a workspace for around 400 employees and is over 108,000 square feet, according to Moe Rama, PR manager for Choice Hotels International.

The Orioles’ wish list for Camden Yards includes removing upper deck seats in various locations and creating more “social spaces,” according to an exhibit included as part of the team’s just-announced lease agreement. The plan would include taking out an unspecified number of left field upper deck seats to accommodate social spaces and a “relocated and expanded Kids’ Zone,” the exhibit says.

The Centers for Advanced Orthopaedics (CAO), one of the largest providers of orthopaedic care in the country, continued its growth across the mid-Atlantic Tuesday with the addition of Winchester Orthopaedic Associates into its growing family of integrated care centers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. This move marks further expansion of the Bethesda-based practice in Virginia and now brings the organization’s brand to West Virginia.

Travelers are seeking out warmer destinations these days, and airlines at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport are pulling flights away from major U.S. cities to meet the demand. BWI Airport has 2,556 fewer flights scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2023 than in the same quarter of 2019, according to a Business Journals analysis of data from Cirium Inc. That total represents a major reshuffling happening at the airport: Some airlines have completely dropped flights to cities like Chicago, Philadelphia, and Boston while adding new or extra ones to warmer climes like Sarasota, Orlando and Miami in Florida.

When it opened more than 60 years ago, Dulles International Airport was aviation’s future. Built on the cusp of the new jet age, it was the first U.S. airport to boast futuristic mobile lounges that whisked passengers to their aircraft. Its main terminal by architect Eero Saarinen set the standard for modern airport design.
Subsequent years saw an expansion of the main terminal, a new runway, a new control tower and portions of an automated train system.

A local business owner can reapply for his Frederick and Hagerstown convenience stores to be considered as food stamp retailers after settling his lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Altimont Mark Wilks, owner and founder of Carmen’s Corner Store, sued the USDA in August, accusing the agency of wrongfully denying his application for his Frederick location from becoming a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program retailer, as the food stamps program is known.