On the Level
Jmore talked with Brian Gibbons about his road from law school to leveling commercial real estate sites.
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Building Up Baltimore
Founded in 2007 by dad-and-son duo Donald and Thibault Manekin, Seawall Development is made up of social entrepreneurs looking to effect change through real estate development.
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Alex Cooper Auctioneers Vice President Paul Cooper (left) and Matt Cooper, head of the company's real estate division. (File photo by Vincent Lupo)
Not Your Great-Great-Grandfather’s Auction House
Today, three generations of Alex Cooper’s descendants work for the auction house, which specializes in real estate, antiques, fine art and rugs.
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‘We Live and Breathe This Stuff’
Jeff Elkin of Advanced Business Systems answered a few of Jmore’s questions about what it’s like growing up in a household when your parents own a thriving business together, and what it’s like to work for your mom.
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Mother-Daughter Team Builds a Lasting Business in Lifesaving Guardrails
In the 1980s, 2 percent of construction industry employees were women. That didn’t stop Sheila Hoffman from staking her claim in the field.
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What’s the Payoff — Love or Money? 5 Baltimore-Area Jewish Artists Respond
For those who earn their living from their art, most agree it’s getting increasingly harder to do so.
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Rachel Rubin, left, and her sister, Merritt Miller, right, co-mingle at an art exhibit. (Photo courtesy Renaissance Fine Arts)
Renaissance Women
“In the kitchen you could get your hair cut; in the living room you could buy art,”–Merritt Miller
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Students in Art with a Heart's pre-kindergarten through first grade classes at Harford Heights Elementary School paint vases. (Handout art)
Art with a Heart Pumps On
Recently, Art with a Heart launched its Art of Leadership program, which educates teens from diverse racial, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds about Baltimore’s civic challenges.
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Fixer Uppers
Alex Trakhtman of Zander Homes and Jeff Weissberg of Crown Remodeling are both artistic entrepreneurs with a passion for making something out of nothing, and making something better out of what’s not yet so.
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The Reader
Buying an indie bookstore was the business decision Emma Snyder burned to make.
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Finding Balance in a Niche Market
“It takes a significant amount of time to become comfortable with this intimate part of the body. You need the right personality and skill level [to work as a pelvic-floor physical therapist],” explains Jodi Berger
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