Business

Three years ago, the grocery store chain Lidl tore down a beloved neighborhood market on Belair Road in Hamilton to open one of its locations, promising to serve surrounding communities with “high quality groceries and low prices.” It has been sitting empty for well over a year. The closing has upset residents who have many questions about what’s going on. It turns out a supply chain issue with the refrigeration system caused the delays to the opening Lidl’s 5950 Belair Road location, according to an email from Councilwoman Danielle McCray provided to The Banner by a resident.

Skyline Technology Solutions, a 20-year-old IT company, is expanding its Anne Arundel County headquarters near Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. The firm recently renewed its lease for 29,000 square feet at Aviation Business Park at 6958 Aviation Blvd. in Glen Burnie. At the same time, it signed a new lease for 16,000 square feet at the site. Mike Roden of CBRE represented Skyline Technology Solutions and Lacey Johansson of St. John Properties represented the landlord in the deal.

Frederick County has launched a loan program to help underserved small-business owners who are in or graduated from the county’s entrepreneur mentorship program get early-stage investments for their businesses. Individuals who participated in or completed the county’s EmPOWER Mentorship Program can now apply for loans of up to $10,000 through the EmPOWER Loan Program to help grow their businesses, according to a news release from the county.

If Baltimore ever does add an outdoor pro soccer team, the club might make their home a couple of miles south of downtown. The state’s Department of Commerce recently requested the Maryland Stadium Authority study two city-owned sites — Carroll Park and Swann Park — for a potential stadium that would hold between 7,500 and 10,000 spectators and host an MLS Next Pro team, a men’s minor league club that would feed to MLS side D.C. United.

Fans will be swinging for the flags at Oriole Park at Camden Yards this summer. Upper Deck Golf is coming to the ballpark in June for a two-day event where fans will have the chance to play a round of golf around the perimeter of the stadium. The Orioles and Upper Deck Golf will offer tee times between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. on June 7 and 8. California-based Upper Deck Golf is hosting similar events at more than a dozen other professional stadiums this year.

Air travel at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport has recovered from major pandemic disturbances, and prices are starting to show it. The average one-way domestic ticket out of BWI Airport was $157.50 in the third quarter of 2023, down 3.7% from the same quarter a year earlier, according to a recent Business Journals analysis of airfare data from Cirium Inc.

Domino Sugar plans to rebuild a bulkhead along the shoreline of its Baltimore harbor refinery, a project designed to protect against erosion and environmental contamination. Domino’s parent, American Sugar Refining Inc., outlined the project in an application to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. A public comment period will run through March 13.