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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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Johns Hopkins is one of the largest employers in Maryland.
Hopkins lays off 1,000 workers in staffing company closure
Hopkins-owned Broadway Services notified state regulators this week that it would shut down by the end of June, triggering more than 1,000 layoffs at the staffing company.
Avocados from Mexico top a bowl for a customer at a Chipotle restaurant in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, March 4, 2025.
A woman says she spent 4 days in hospital after eating at this Chipotle
A woman claims she spent four days in the hospital with food poisoning after eating at Chipotle.
The 11-story Art Deco-style apartment building is the former home of the Baltimore Life Insurance Company. Photographed on Thursday, March 20, 2025.
One of downtown Baltimore’s biggest landlords hit with foreclosure
A lender is foreclosing on a downtown apartment building owned by one Baltimore’s most successful developers of office-to-residential conversions.
Scenes from around the Poppleton neighborhood of Baltimore on February 26, 2025.
Why Baltimore can’t shake its controversial Poppleton developer
City housing cancelled New York-based La Cité’s development rights. Turns out, it didn’t really matter.
The city housing authority has moved out almost all 288 households of Poe Homes in preparation for demolition and redevelopment.
Welcome to Baltimore’s newest ghost town. Trump cuts might keep it empty.
Redevelopment of Poe Homes in West Baltimore, and other distressed communities across the region, could slow if federal housing grants and programs end.
Dale Glenwood Green, seen giving a virtual presentation about historic preservation for the Maryland State Archives, taught at Morgan State University since 2008.
After license flap, architecture professor no longer at Morgan State
Dale Glenwood Green, who taught at Morgan State University since 2008, was fined $20,000 in December for practicing architecture without a license.
For years the Port of Baltimore has led the country in vehicle imports and exports. Now Georgia’s Port of Brunswick is giving Baltimore some competition.
Port of Baltimore lost its car crown — but Georgia’s reign could be short-lived
The Port of Baltimore had one of its strongest years, despite the Key Bridge disaster, but it lost its top ranking for car imports to Georgia’s Port of Brunswick.
WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 11: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and U.S. President Donald Trump appear during an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on February 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump is to sign an executive order implementing the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) "workforce optimization initiative," which, according to Trump, will encourage agencies to limit hiring and reduce the size of the federal government.
Federal spending cuts trigger more than 1,000 Maryland private sector layoffs
As the Trump administration slashes the budgets of federal agencies, the ripple effects are already being felt in Maryland’s private sector.
After six years at the helm of the city's economic development agency, Colin Tarbert is stepping down as the president and CEO of the Baltimore Development Corp. this summer.
Head of Baltimore’s economic development agency stepping down
The president and CEO of the Baltimore Development Corp. will step down this summer after six years at the helm.
The Avalon 555 President is a luxury apartment building in Harbor East.
These 5 charts show the end of Maryland’s apartment building boom
The Center\West apartment building in Poppleton was developed by La Cité as part of a broader but largely unrealized revitalization plan in West Baltimore.
How a New York developer made millions off its struggling West Baltimore project
Documents filed in a lawsuit show that New York developer La Cité has made millions of dollars from a struggling project in West Baltimore’s Poppleton neighborhood.
The former Under Armour warehouse at 1450 Beason Street is known as the "Cheer Building."
Developer wants to tear down warehouse and build 120 homes in Locust Point
A Baltimore developer said he has purchased a warehouse property directly across the street from the old Under Armour headquarters.
The site of the Poppleton development in West Baltimore.
Judge orders investor to take control of delayed Poppleton development
La Cité has tried and failed for 20 years to revitalize a West Baltimore neighborhood.
Daniel Taylor of the Baltimore Development Corp. led a walking tour of the Superblock in December. Later this year, he'll take on a new role as president of the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore.
Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore names new president
Dan Taylor, a longtime executive at the Baltimore Development Corp., will take over as president of the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore later this year.
Drew Greenblatt, who owns the South Baltimore steel fabrication plant Marlin Steel, can't wait for Trump's tariffs.
This Baltimore manufacturer can’t wait for Trump’s tariffs
The owner of South Baltimore's Marlin Steel has been imploring someone to do something about the “cheaters” in other countries — especially China.
Luxury apartment buildings, such as a high-rise in Harbor Point, have faced challenges in finding renters.
Baltimore keeps building luxury apartments as some units sit empty
About one-tenth of the 4- and 5-star apartments in the Baltimore region are empty, according to data from the real estate analytics firm CoStar.
Dr. Devesh Kanjarpane shows a room at Charm City Health Center in April 2024.
West Baltimore methadone clinic opening soon despite lawsuit, owner says
Dr. Devesh Kanjarpane has been trying for years to convert a former auto parts warehouse in West Baltimore into a health center that will also dispense methadone.
Workers at the Social Security Administration, headquartered in Woodlawn, could be exempt from Trump’s executive order.
Maryland federal workers, Trump wants you back in the office
President Donald Trump signed a 65-word executive order that appeared to have a big effect on Maryland — a state that depends on federal jobs like no other.
For decades, the John Glenn has broken ice up and down the Potomac River. For at least two years, it's been at the General Ship Repair Corp. in Baltimore.
A fatal plunge, an icy DC river and a rescue boat stuck in Baltimore
As emergency crews responded to a submerged vehicle, they didn’t have access to a boat with ice-breaking capabilities because it has reportedly been in Baltimore for repairs.
Laurie Schwartz will retire this June after leading the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore for 20 years.
After a career spent making Baltimore better, Waterfront Partnership president retires
Laurie Schwartz will retire on June 30 as president of the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore, a role she has held since the nonprofit’s creation in 2005.
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