Tuesday, April 30, 2013
An existing Elkridge business is expanding.
A local defense company is more than doubling the size of its facility, opening a new building in Elkridge with an official ribbon cutting ceremony scheduled for Wednesday. Flir, which makes thermal imaging and infrared cameras for police and military uses as well as the private sector, announced its expansion in March, when Gov. Martin O’Malley visited its current facility to warn of the negative effects the looming sequester may have on local business such as Flir. The ribbon cutting ceremony for the company, which is moving from its 35,000 square foot facility on 6610 Amberton Drive, into a new 80,000 square foot engineering and manufacturing facility, is scheduled for 9 a.m. May 1 (Wednesday) at 7055 Troy Hill Road. “I am pleased that …
Monday, April 22, 2013
GP Strategies is moving into three floors at 70 Corporate Center in downtown Columbia.
A Howard County company announced Monday it will move its corporate headquarters from Elkridge to three floors of the office building at 70 Corporate Center in Downtown Columbia. GP Strategies, a technology, counsulting and engineering company, signed a 12-year deal with Howard Hughes Co., the building's owner, to lease a 64,000-square-foot section of the building, according to a statement. "The move achieves important goals for brining all of our Columbia area employees under one roof, providing a working environment that's suited to doing business in the 21st century and securing space for continued growth," said Sharon Esposito-Mayer, executive vice president of GP Strategies. Howard Hughes Co. and County Executive Ken Ulman jointly …
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Company officials have said they do not yet know who the tenants will be.
Two new industrial buildings with a combined 243,500 square feet are expected to come to Hanover by the end of this year, according to the Baltimore Business Journal. Liberty Property Trust, a real estate investment trust, is building the projects; company officials told the Journal they did not yet know who the tenants would be at the buildings, set to go up at 7460 and 7462 New Ridge Road. Company officials said in a press release they will break ground on the Class A industrial buildings this spring on the 17-acre site in Hanover. “Hanover Crossing will be one of the first new Class A industrial projects to be developed in the Baltimore/Washington Corridor in several years,” Lisa Sullivan, vice president and city manager for Liberty’s …
Sunday, March 10, 2013
In late February, bikers were gathering at Daniels Bar, which sees more business in the spring and summer, according to the bartender.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Find out where to find flowers, chocolates and romantic places for Valentine’s Day 2013.
Friday, February 1, 2013
The store is getting ready for a large order for Super Bowl 2013.
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Sanjay Ayre won the silver medal as part of the Jamaican men's 4x400 sprint team, now he's starting a training business in Elkridge and coaching at HCC.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Sanjay Ayre won the silver medal as part of the Jamaican men's 4x400 sprint team, now he's starting a training business in Elkridge and coaching at HCC.
Just qualifying for the Olympics is quite a feat, but to compete on the Jamaican National sprint team--that's an entirely different achievement. In 1999, Sanjay Ayre was a 19-year-old sprinter living in the Bronx, NY who had just won gold in the 400-meter dash at the Pan American Junior Championships. The next year, Ayre began his college career at Auburn University where his coach encouraged him to try out for the Jamaican Olympic team. At the time, Ayre was 20 and a Jamaican citizen. "Track and field is by far the biggest sport in Jamaica," said Ayre, who recently opened up his own training center in Howard County and serves as the men's sprint coach for Howard Community College. "The fans are very passionate. There is no second, no …
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Elkridge residents are no strangers to good, homemade pie.
Although the pie is not an American invention, it has certainly become an American tradition, thus the term, "as American as apple pie." Today, Jan. 23, has been deemed National Pie Day by the American Pie Council Looking for pie in Elkridge? Try the following local businesses that have bakeries in Elkridge: Have a pie recipe of your own you'd like to share? Post it in our comments section below. According to the American Pie Council, pie came to America with the first English settlers. The early colonists cooked their pies in long narrow pans calling them "coffins." As in the Roman times, the early American pie crusts often were not eaten, but simply designed to hold the filling during baking. It was during the American Revolution that …
The store is getting ready for a large order for Super Bowl 2013.
The boom in popularity of Ravens-themed cupcakes from an Elkridge bakery has grown this season and is expected to be at a high for Super Bowl parties next month, staff there said this week. This is the second year Kupcakes & Co, which opened in June of 2011 in Elkridge, has offered the Ravens-themed confections, and fans that had the cupcakes at game-viewing parties in the past tend to order them again, said baker Joanne Jrabowski. “I think people are superstitious, so I think people who have ordered them prior will order them again,” she said. For the AFC Championship, the store made 210 Ravens cupcakes, staff said; for the Super Bowl, they are planning to make 280 or more. The cupcakes come in either chocolate buttercream or vanilla …
Mr. Drew
3:11 pm on Tuesday, April 23, 2013
I'm not so thrilled to hear Mr. Ulman celebrating this company's move to Columbia when they moved from Elkridge. How about some concern for job losses in Elkridge? more ›