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Giacomo Bologna

Giacomo

Giacomo "Jack" Bologna covers business and development at The Baltimore Banner. Before that he worked at The Baltimore Sun, The Baltimore Business Journal and newspapers in Mississippi and Missouri. Jack is originally from Michigan.

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Before mass foreclosures, loan product looked good for Baltimore
Landlords like Dontae Carroll say Wall Street’s freeze on a specific housing loan has put their plans to purchase on hold.
Dontae Carroll poses for a portrait in his son's home in Baltimore on Wednesday, August 6, 2025.
The housing hustle igniting a foreclosure crisis in Baltimore
The foreclosures could send neighborhoods spiraling and make Baltimore America’s next great housing crisis.
Baltimore’s hottest spot for Maryland Dems is... a Residence Inn rooftop?
Why are Maryland’s Democratic glitterati flocking to an extended-stay hotel whose other primary clientele are hospital patients and their families?
The Residence Inn Baltimore at the Johns Hopkins Medical Campus, located at 800 N. Wolfe St., had its grand opening in October 2017.
Embattled East Baltimore hotel sold for huge loss
A group of Chinese investors stands to lose its entire $47 million investment. They are claiming in a new court filing that the June auction was effectively rigged in favor of a Virginia-based private equity firm.
The Residence Inn Baltimore at the Johns Hopkins Medical Campus, located at 800 N. Wolfe St., had its grand opening in October 2017.
Under Armour is a brand, not a company, CEO Kevin Plank says as stock sinks
Under CEO Kevin Plank cut the apparel company's profit projections in half, citing tariffs and weakening demand, in a quarterly report to investors.
Under Armour's new Baltimore Peninsula campus on December 7, 2024, in Baltimore, Md.
T. Rowe Price mum on number of July layoffs; hints more cuts are coming
During an earnings call Friday morning, T. Rowe Price executives hinted at future staff reductions, possibly thanks to artificial intelligence.
April 2, 2025 — The new T. Rowe Price global headquarters building is on the Harbor Point waterfront.
Carbon dioxide incident at Baltimore chicken plant hospitalizes 5
Fire Department spokesperson John Marsh said the five people hospitalized had non-life-threatening injuries.
First responders working the scene at a HAZMAT incident at Holly Poultry, a poultry processing plant in Southwest Baltimore on Sunday July 27, 2025. Five people were hospitalized and five more were treated at the scene. A fire department spokesperson said dangerously high levels of carbon dioxide were found inside the plant.
Upset at budget airline’s role in ICE deportations, 100 protesters rally near BWI
The protesters said they wanted to pressure the airline and discourage people from flying with Avelo.
People gathered Sunday on an Interstate 195 overpass near Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport to protest Avelo Airlines’ deal with ICE to operate deportation flights.
Gov. Moore takes leadership role at national bipartisan governors group
Moore will take over the chairmanship next year from Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore speaks at the South Carolina Democratic Party's Blue Palmetto Dinner in Columbia, S.C., on Friday, May 30, 2025.
An entrepreneur had big plans for a West Baltimore grocery store. Then rent came due.
Mario Minor, a former concert promoter with no experience opening a grocery store, sold Poppleton residents in Baltimore City a dream.
An unopened grocery store in the La Cite development in the Poppleton neighborhood of Baltimore on February 26, 2025.
What Kevin Plank’s 2013 trip to Dubai has to do with your surging BGE bill
Baltimore Gas and Electric still believes that the Baltimore Peninsula will one day become a pulsating metropolis.
While Kevin Plank's vision of a futuristic business hub at his Baltimore Peninsula development has yet to materialize, BGE still plans to build a massive new substation — partially on the site of this decommissioned power plant, shown here — to support the projected growth.
A city-owned hotel has been losing money since 2008. Here’s the cost to taxpayers.
By 2024, the city-owned Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor was supposed to have paid out $39 million, plus taxes, to Baltimore. Instead, it has cost the city millions to keep afloat.
The Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor has not made a single distribution payment back to the city’s general fund, despite projections that it would have paid out more than $39 million by now.
Baltimore’s arabbers mourn a fellow fruit man — and their dying way of life
Arabbing — selling fruits and vegetables from a horse-drawn wagon — is a centuries-old profession that is hanging by a thread in Baltimore.
Levar Mullen calls out, “Fruit man, fruit man!,” as he leads the funeral procession down Pennsylvania Avenue for Bilal “BJ” Abdullah, the beloved arabber fatally shot by Baltimore Police this week.
‘Justice for the fruit man’: Hundreds rally for arabber fatally shot by Baltimore police
More than 300 people rallied in Upton on Friday evening to demand justice for Bilal “BJ” Abdullah, the well-known arabber fatally shot in Upton by police this week.
Community members march in honor of the recently-killed arabber, Bilal "BJ" Adbullah, on Friday, June 20, 2025.
Judge dismisses Poppleton’s lawsuit of last resort against city, developer
A federal judge's dismissal of a lawsuit means that New York-based La Cité Development will continue to control much of the vacant land in the neighborhood, extending a saga that stretches back two decades.
Sonia Eaddy, president of Poppleton Now, described the lawsuit as a last resort for her and her neighbors. A federal judge dismissed it Wednesday.
It’s not looking good: New report digs deep on federal cuts and Maryland’s economy
A new report released gets into granular detail about federal money and Maryland — and it’s not pretty.
Maryland Comptroller Brooke Lierman at an event in Windsor Mill in February. The comptroller's office published a report on the effects of federal cuts on the state's economy.
A state senator aided a disgraced developer’s ‘affordable’ East Baltimore project
Sen. Cory McCray’s involvement in Ronald Lipscomb’s proposed apartment building raised alarms, ethical concerns, emails show.
Parcel B, a sliver of land between Ashland Avenue and E. Madison Street is currently being used as a parking lot.
Rochester gave up on a highway and filled it in. Should Baltimore?
Rochester gave up lanes of highway traffic to turn a trench into green space — and wants to do more.
A hotel and mixed-use development fills what once was the eastern portion of Rochester, N.Y.’s Inner Loop East highway.
Buffalo’s $1 billion cautionary tale for Baltimore’s ‘Highway to Nowhere’
Buffalo’s plan to turn part of an expressway into a tunnel covered by green space got funded, and then got controversial.
The Kensington Expressway, looking south in Buffalo, N.Y.
‘Get ‘em while supplies last’: The economy operating outside Pimlico bids farewell
Residents of Park Heights shared thoughts on the idea of not having Preakness next year — and the prospects of a new Pimlico.
Anastasia Green and her husband, Derry Royster, sell T-shirts, socks, handmade glasses and drinks outside Pimlico Race Course.
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