Blackout How will you avoid the looming electricity shortage? By
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| Corridor Inc. Assistant Editor Originally published October 2008
To managers at Chesapeake Solar in Jessup, a hiring spree provided hard, welcome evidence that they’d found the silver lining to the energy crunch. While other industries have struggled with anemic growth, the solar energy systems installer has seen its revenues grow 800 percent in the past three years and its staff expand by fivefold. In the past eight months alone, groSolar, Chesapeake’s parent company, saw its total staff across 12 states double.
Will Konterra draw high-end retail to Prince George’s? By
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| Corridor Inc. Assistant Editor Originally published October 2008
After 25 years of planning, developers of the 2,200-acre Konterra project say they are mere months away from breaking ground on a city core. Prince George’s County Planning Board officials this summer approved concept plans for Konterra Town Center East. The high-density, 488-acre development south of Laurel would include nearly 6 million square feet of commercial and public space, 4,500 homes and 41 acres of recreational facilities.
Johns Hopkins University is looking to the future — more than 20 years ahead — and planning a massive science and research city in Montgomery County that would compete with top-notch facilities across the nation and even around the world. The hope is that this new science research campus will also attract some of the brightest scientists in the world, and most importantly, retain the ones who have received their educations in the area.
Kathy Wheatley knows how hard it is to weather a recession. The president of Wheatley Associates, a 28-year-old remodeling company in Baltimore County, has had to lay off managers, cut health benefits, sell trucks and lease empty offices as business volume dropped 40 percent in a year.
Chairman and CEO of the Bozzuto Group By
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| Corridor Inc. Assistant Editor Originally published October 2008
It was the kind of day developers dread. Bozzuto Group crews had been building and marketing a condominium complex in Germantown in the mid-1990s when the market went soft. Nearby townhouse developments slashed their prices to move units. Suddenly a new Germantown townhouse cost less than a Bozzuto condominium. Sales slumped and forced Bozzuto to make deep price cuts as well.
How will the next president impact your bottom line? By
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| Corridor Inc. Assistant Editor Originally published October 2008
Somewhere beyond the cheering partisans, the presidential stump speeches and the political attack ads, an inconvenient question festers: What would the election of Democratic President Barack Obama or Republican President John McCain mean to your business and this economy? Corridor Inc. sought out the opinions of individuals who know the presidential platforms, the fundamentals of economics and the hard realities of growing a business.
MERKLE, a provider of data-driven marketing solutions headquartered in Columbia, hired Chris Crayner as senior vice president of customer management strategy. Prior to joining Merkle, Crayner was vice president of global customer managed relationships at Disney Parks and Resorts in Orlando.
DAVIS CALIBRATION SERVICES, a Baltimore-based company which provides instrument calibration and related services, appointed Mark Rohde Sr. as chief executive officer. Rohde, a vice president with JPB Enterprises Inc. most recently served as president and chief executive officer of Motif Design, an Arizona-based commercial interior design and fabrication firm. Davis Calibration is owned by JPB Enterprises.
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| Corridor Inc. Assistant Editor Originally published October 2008
Fort George G. Meade stands to receive $300 million of services and improvements under the terms of a tentative agreement to develop a 173-acre business park on the base. Negotiators for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Texas-based contractor Trammell Crow Co. reached the 50-year Enhanced Use Lease agreement this summer. It would enable Trammell Crow to build up to 1.7 million square feet of Class A office space on Army land just outside the fort’s Reece Road gate. In return, the general contractor would have to complete requested improvements on the base, such as road improvements and building renovations, said Bert Rice, a member of the fort’s Enhanced Use Lease office.
