Baltimore Business Spotlights

Baltimore is a great place for small businesses. Read the stories of entrepreneurs and small business owners who call Baltimore home and why they love Charm City. Please click on their photo to read their story.

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Reviving Howard Street: From Neglect to Renaissance

Howard Street has experienced a remarkable evolution that mirrors the city's journey through the decades.
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Breaking Down the Big Box: Village at Mondawmin

Hear Kirk Hemphill from Whiting-Turner contracting co. share about the new development happening in Greater Mondawmin.
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JuneBrain

Dr. Sam Scott knows a lot about designing for equity and resilience, expanding the scope of retinal scanning tech.
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Perkins-Somerset Oldtown

Local, State, Federal government and private sector working together to build equitable and inclusive places to live.
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Young Elder

My love for Baltimore, it runs deep, and I try to just help one person at a time.
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Anders Jones

“I graduated from Stanford in 2009, right after the stock market crash. Seventy-five percent of my class didn’t have
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Story Spotlights

Sonavi Labs

“Ian McLane and I started Sonavi Labs in 2017. We are an early-stage company that has a lot of traction for as young
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Mission: Launch

“Not in my wildest imagination, did I ever think that I would find myself in prison. But when the company that
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Ayeshah Abuelhiga

“I grew up in what is now known as Charles Village in Baltimore City. My dad, who passed away a couple of years ago, is
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Bishop Hickman

“I grew up in a single parent home in Edmondson Village in Baltimore with two siblings. I was a troubled teenager and by
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Connie Chauca

“I was born and raised in Peru. I was working a customer service job when my husband got the opportunity to come..."
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Delali Dzirasa

“My parents split up when I was about four or five years old. I’m the youngest of three boys and we all lived with my
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Elda Devarie

“The story of EMD Sales is the story of a young military wife who came from Puerto Rico, who found herself in a
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Ernst Valery

“I lived in Haiti as a kid. I never had my own room because my entire home was open to the community. My upbringing
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Jake Hsu

“My dad, who is an engineer, came here as an immigrant from Taiwan in 1973. He went to college to earn his master's
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Kellie Brown

“My grandfather was an entrepreneur. My family is from Philadelphia and when my mom, her two sisters and brother were li
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Mariah Bonner

“My family is artistic and musical, so that was just part of our family culture. I started ballet at seven and
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McKeever E. Conwell

“The person who influenced me the most was my dad. My dad was a man of great ambition, and although he didn’t have
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PI.KL Studio

“At this time last year, everything was unknown. The building, design and construction industry experienced a major
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SISU Global Health

“Gillian and I knew each other from college, and we both had our own companies before we started Sisu Global Health
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Sonavi Labs

“Ian McLane and I started Sonavi Labs in 2017. We are an early-stage company that has a lot of traction for as young
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Teresa Hodge and Laurin Leonard

“Not in my wildest imagination, did I ever think that I would find myself in prison. But when the company that
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Tia Hamilton

“I created State Vs. Us Magazine after coming out of prison because I wanted to highlight high profile cases, talk about
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Toni Draper

“The Afro-American Newspaper is a family-owned business and I'm a fourth-generation publisher. My great-grandfather
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Trevor Pryce

“When I was a kid I could draw. I was a great artist, but when I hit puberty I lost the ability to draw. To this day
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Chris Schafer

A story of with slick threads and deep ties to Baltimore's industrial textile history.
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