Here's a look inside the new City Arts 2 artist housing

Nearly all 60 units at City Arts 2 in Greenmount West are leased — a month before the first tenants are scheduled to move in. The three-story apartment project at 1700 Greenmount Ave. is in the final stages of construction and will hold studio, one and two-bedroom apartments billed as affordable housing for artists including photographers, painters, writers, actors and musicians. A large dance studio with a specialized “sprung” floor is also being installed on the ground level. The $15 million…

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Gannett ends pursuit of Baltimore Sun owner

Gannett Co. Inc. is ending its bid to purchase the parent company of the Baltimore Sun. McLean, Va.-based Gannett (NYSE: GCI), which owns USA Today and more than 100 daily newspapers, had made several offers for Tronc Inc. this year. Chicago-based Tronc (NASDAQ: TRNC), which changed its name from Tribune Publishing Co. in June as part of a rebranding effort, owns the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and other metro dailies. A deal would have greatly increased Gannett’s national footprint. Gannett…

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Greenspring Associates leads $41.5M funding round in online auction startup

An Owings Mills venture capital firm is part of a big funding round in a Cincinnati-based online estate auction startup. Greenspring Associates led the $41.5 million Series C round in Everything but the House. Returning investors include Greycroft Partners and Spark Capital. The company has raised $84.5 million to date. Everything but the House is an online estate auction house. Its employees go into an estate, catalog all of the sellable items, photograph them, list them online for sale and take…

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T. Rowe Price Chair Brian Rogers to retire next year

T. Rowe Price Group Inc. Chairman Brian C. Rogers, who rose from portfolio manager to chairman over a nearly 35-year span, is retiring from the Baltimore investment firm, the company announced Tuesday. Rogers, 61, will leave his roles as both chair and chief investment officer on March 31. He will continue on T. Rowe’s (NASDAQ: TROW) board of directors and will now serve as non-executive chair. In connection with Rogers’ retirement, the firm has appointed six senior investment leaders as CIOs, effective…

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8 things you need to know this morning

Good morning, and happy Tuesday. It’s going to be another brisk fall day, with temperatures in the mid-50s. But beware, we’ll be back in the 70s tomorrow. Here are eight things to know to get your day started. Three people are reportedly dead this morning after a school bus crashed into an MTA bus in southwest Baltimore. The crash occurred early this morning at Frederick and Monastery avenues near Mt. Saint Joseph’s High School. WBAL Radio Maryland has already broken early voting records with…

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Columbia-based Hungry Harvest to keep presence in Philadelphia after test period

A Columbia produce delivery startup that hooked one of the Shark investors on ABC’s “Shark Tank” earlier this year will continue operating in Philadelphia after a successful beta period. Hungry Harvest, which received a $100,000 offer in January this year from Shark Tank investor Robert Herjavec for a 10 percent stake in the company, launched a beta period in Philadelphia immediately after appearing on the TV show. Philadelphia is the first city the company is expanding to outside of its core Beltway…

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Entrepreneurs grown their companies with Goldman Sachs 10,000 small business program

A growing number of Atlanta businesses are living up to the city’s famous nickname: Hotlanta!

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