Construction began Monday to transform the former site of a New York Fried Chicken at the corner of N. Charles St. and North Ave. into the new headquarters of Station North Arts and Entertainment Inc., as well as the new performance space for the Annex Theater. To fund the construction, the nonprofit Station North group, [...]

A new micro-loan program for Baltimore’s small businesses was unveiled by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake the day before Thanksgiving, reports the Baltimore Business Journal:

The view from the Startup Arena in the second floor atrium of Lexington Market at Tech Night. Update 11/2/12 6:28 p.m.: Clarified information on Thursday’s attendance at Tech Night compared to previous years. More than 400 people from Baltimore’s tech community packed the atrium at Lexington Market for Thursday’s Tech Night, including Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake—the [...]

From left: gb.tc executive director Jason Hardebeck, gb.tc board chairman Jason Pappas and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake The Mayor’s Office of Information Technology, in partnership with gb.tc, will be sponsoring a civic apps contest with $10,000 in cash prizes up for grabs, announced Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake at Thursday’s Tech Night at Lexington Market. “We are challenging [...]

Before Tech Night kicks off at Lexington Market at 7 tonight, gb.tc will hold the first annual Tech Crawl to “see Baltimore tech in action,” writes Jason Hardebeck. Crawlers will make four stops at the: Bromo Seltzer Tower clockworks Baltimore Police’s CitiWatch control center Catholic Relief Services’ international crisis situation room MTA’s nerve center E-mail [...]

The City of Baltimore is “wasting about $400,000 every month it does not install a new phone system,” claimed Thursday a lawyer for City Comptroller Joan M. Pratt, as reported by the Baltimore Sun. Since the summer, the mayor’s office has been paying Digicon Corp., with offices in Rockville, to upgrade the city’s phone system to a [...]

As of Thursday, meetings of the Municipal Zoning and Appeals Board, the Board of Estimates and the Board of Liquor License Commissioners will be broadcast live by the city, according to a press release from the mayor’s office. According to the release, the Mayor’s Office of Cable and Communications will broadcast the meetings “on the [...]

Comcast ushered in year two of its Internet Essentials program, through which some families in Maryland are able to receive broadband Internet for $9.95 per month. It’s a program we first reported on last December.