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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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Chiquita bananas are sold locally, including at Streets Market in Charles Village.
Bunch of nonsense: Why the banana shortage tied to the ports strike isn’t real
This week, a massive container ship called the Chiquita Voyager arrived in Port Wilmington in Delaware, and members of the ILA unloaded it.
Longshoremen are striking for higher wages — and to stop what they see as the job-killing automation of ports.
Can robots run the Port of Baltimore? Not really. At least not yet.
The shipping companies that employ them made an unprecedented amount of money. What if it got spent on automating American ports — and getting rid of unionized dockworkers?
Union members with the International Longshoremen’s Association and Local 333 continue to strike in the rain after over eight hours of picketing against the automation of port work and low wages outside the Dundalk Marine Terminal on Tuesday, October 1, 2024 in Baltimore, MD.
Dockworkers strike at Port of Baltimore as contract expires
More than 100 people gathered along outside marine terminals at the Port of Baltimore after midnight, calling for higher wages and to stop automation at the ports.
A strike could affect the local economy and global supply chain.
Dockworkers brace for another shutdown at the Port of Baltimore
The International Longshoremen’s Association, which represents dockworkers, is preparing for a strike if contract issues aren’t resolved by Monday night.
This is a picture of the Residence Inn Baltimore at the Johns Hopkins Medical Campus
A city-backed hotel near Johns Hopkins missed $21 million loan repayment
The owner of the 15-story Residence Inn Baltimore at the Johns Hopkins Medical Campus missed a July deadline to repay a $21 million loan, and the lender wants another operator to take control.
This is a photo of BC Graphics and Edge Direct, which are leaving the Cherry Hill neighborhood of South Baltimore.
A century-old printing company exits Baltimore, taking 144 jobs along with it
A printing company with a nearly century-long history in the Baltimore area is leaving the city, a move that potentially puts 144 people out of work.
United Safety Technology planned to convert this empty warehouse into a nitrile glove factory employing 2,000 people.
The COVID glove factory that hasn’t made gloves also isn’t paying rent
Tradepoint Atlantic filed a lien against United Safety Technology last month. A complaint followed alleging the proposed glove manufacturer has not been paying rent.
This is a photo of Patrick Brennan and Helga Surratt posing for a photo with Mackey Cronin, the new owner of About Faces Day Spa & Salon.
Baltimore County spa chain About Faces sold to family friend
A family friend purchased popular Baltimore County spa and salon chain About Faces after its CEO unexpectedly died from a stroke. The new owner pledges to keep the business the same.
The Port of Baltimore could be headed for its second partial shutdown this year.
Dockworkers’ union threatens to shut down East Coast ports, including Baltimore’s
A contract between a dockworkers union and shipping companies expires at the end of September, which may lead to the first strike in nearly 50 years.
Former Loyola University professor Stephen Walters poses for a portrait in his Baltimore condo on July 12, 2024.
The retired professor who still dreams of cutting Baltimore’s property tax
Stephen Walters has been sounding the alarm for the better part of two decades: To save itself, he says, Baltimore must slash its property tax rate. This week the state’s highest court rejected a ballot initiative to reduce and cap the rate.
Long lines at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.
BWI is the second-least-reliable airport in the country
The British firm SOAX reviewed data from April 2023 to March 2024 and found that almost 29% of flights left BWI at least 15 minutes later than their scheduled departure times, but it’s not all BWI’s fault.
MCB Real Estate released renderings of a redeveloped Harborplace on Oct. 30, 2023, that show new buildings with residential units and new parks.
At Harborplace 2.0, where does your car go?
The firm that wants to redevelop Harborplace touts the walkability of its designs, but at a hearing Thursday, city planning commissioners pointed out a different issue: Some of these hypothetical residents might own cars.
An illustration of design plans for the upcoming Harborplace development is revealed at a press conference held by MCB Real Estate, at the Light Street pavilion on Monday, Oct. 30, 2023 in Baltimore, MD.
Build it and they will come? Harborplace redevelopment could hinge on potential tenants
A Baltimore City panel is once again preparing to review the master plan for the city’s most high-profile redevelopment: Harborplace.
Baltimore’s unique alley houses in the Poppleton neighborhood, shown in 2022.
Poppleton residents sue the developer and city leaders behind stalled revitalization plan
Six residents and the community association of a West Baltimore neighborhood stuck in a 20-year stalled redevelopment are suing numerous current and former city officials, agencies and the firm La Cité.
The site of the Poppleton development in West Baltimore.
Poppleton investor sues for control as West Baltimore project flounders
La Cité Development was supposed to break ground on an age-restricted apartment complex for older adults this year. Instead, the developer missed a key financing deadline.

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