Business

The University of Maryland Medical School is creating a for-profit entity to add a new revenue stream and establish a network of primary care doctors. The for-profit will be an arm of the University of Maryland Faculty Physicians Inc., a group of over 1,200 medical school faculty who offer clinical care across the state. The new business structure will allow the University of Maryland to utilize private financing and new reimbursement structures.

People in Baltimore’s Lauraville and Beverly Hills neighborhoods have long known the sprawling brick building in the 4500 block of Harford Road as The Markley Hotel, though it’s not clear whether it ever hosted overnight guests. A new chapter is starting for the former D. Markley Supply Co. seed and general store and warehouse as a community hub, with student housing for Morgan State University next door.

The ownership group of The Mint Room, which operates three restaurants specializing in traditional delicacies from northern India, has chosen Columbia Palace Plaza in Columbia as the site of its first quick-service restaurant (QSR) concept. The restaurant chain, owned by Prince Anand, has signed a lease with Continental Realty Corporation (CRC) for 2,500 square feet of space within the Giant Food-anchored center and plans to open later this year.

Amid the ever-changing cannabis industry landscape, MariMed, a seed-to-store operation in Maryland, has received top honors in multiple categories at the 2024 Maryland Cannabis Awards. MariMed’s product, Betty’s Eddies, an all-natural cannabis fruit chew, was named Favorite Edible, and Nature’s Heritage, a flower brand, received top accolades for their Rick Simpson Oil. MariMed celebrated its 10th anniversary, a monumental achievement for a cannabis company.

A popular Rockville-based diner chain is moving up the Interstate 95 corridor with a new location in Baltimore County. Silver Diner will open its newest restaurant at 8123 Honeygo Blvd. at the Avenue at White Marsh on May 1. The diner will be the third Greater Baltimore location for the company, which hopes to expand further throughout the area and into Pennsylvania.

Did you see what happened? Are you ok? Were you on the bridge? After taking his first night off in 40 days, Mandel Brown awoke March 26 to a flurry of texts and missed calls. A Maryland native and newly licensed trucker, Brown’s GPS showed that he had been on track to arrive at the Key Bridge at what turned out to be roughly the same time it collapsed. Exhaustion led to a lucky turn of fate: He had decided to rest that night in Virginia and resume his next leg in the morning.

A Maryland-based gym that offers accessible fitness classes and facilities to people of all abilities, is expanding into Northern Virginia. SPIRIT Club founder Jared Ciner said many gyms aren’t designed in a way that allow people of varying levels of physical or mental ability to participate comfortably. “It could be anything from the environment itself — the culture of the gym might not be one that is welcoming,” Ciner said.