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Royal Caribbean is the latest cruise line to change course due to the closure of the Port of Baltimore. The port’s Cruise Maryland Terminal is inaccessible because it’s blocked by the remains of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed into the Patapsco River after being rammed into by a massive container ship early Tuesday morning.

It’s no secret that commercial real estate is in a bit of a slump right now. And it’s not just the market, but the activity, or lack thereof — fewer cranes, fewer new office buildings and fewer big projects in general. “I would characterize the outlook as paralyzed. The market knows what it needs — generally ‘more’ of everything — but everyone is waiting for greater certainty to act,” said Robert Gilbane Jr., senior vice president of development for Gilbane Development Co.

Soon after the container ship Dali struck and toppled the Francis Scott Key Bridge early Tuesday, Paul Brashier was among many in the shipping industry who shifted into overdrive. From Texas, Brashier turned his attention to the cargo — tires, dog food, home goods, cookware — packed into containers on ships headed to the Port of Baltimore and handled by his logistics company.

Meeting up with friends before an Orioles game at Camden Yards? If you want to avoid the long lines and sky-high prices of food and drink inside the ballpark, you’ll need to plan accordingly. Fortunately, the neighborhoods surrounding the Yard offer breweries, pubs, restaurants and cafés where fans can grab a quick bite or a pint.

No Regrets Pizza is set to bring New York- and Roman-style pies as well as other Italian dishes to North Bethesda in April, owner Richard Weiner told MoCo360 on Wednesday. Weiner said the eatery at 5454 Nicholson Lane will be a fast-casual pizza spot for lunch and turn into a sit-down restaurant offering craft cocktails and locally produced beers for dinner. The restaurant will feature a 30-foot bar with at least 11 seats, plus 24 seats for inside dining and 24 seats outside.

Carnival Cruise ships will be rerouted to Norfolk, Virginia, after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge closed the Port of Baltimore for the foreseeable future. Cruise passengers in the middle of a seven-day trip to the Bahamas on the Carnival Legend that was scheduled to return to Baltimore Sunday will instead disembark in the southeastern Virginia city, according to Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line.

A new sports and entertainment company has secured the rights to bring a minor league basketball team to Baltimore City. Maelstrom Sports and Entertainment, founded by University of Maryland, Baltimore County graduate Jacob Dennis and former Division I basketball player Charles Carrington, is currently on the hunt for investors to fund a new semi-professional basketball team called Baltimore Venom.

CosmosID, a microbiome analytics company with a genomic sequencing facility in Germantown, Thursday announced a collaboration with Resilient Biotics to explore the microbiome strains that colonize the respiratory tract tissues, a step toward advancing respiratory health research and therapeutic development. CosmosID will offer a range of next-generation sequencing services and advanced bioinformatic support.