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Doubling down No secrets Baltimore real estate firm buys second Disbarred lawyer didn’t report apartment complex in Naples, Florida. 3A sanction in Virginia. 11A Tuesday, January 27, 2015 Volume 126 | Number 078 TheDailyRecord.com Lawmakers anticipate reforms to DBED Task force to release findings on how to make state business-friendly BY BRYAN P. SEARS [email protected] Recommendations to overhaul the Department of Business and Economic Development and other business-friendly changes to govern- MAXIMILIAN FRANZ ment could be deliv- Organizers of Startup Soiree, from left, Rachel Robinson, co-owner of Intrinsic Events; Patrick Rife, partner in Pixilated Photobooth; Jessica Gignac, co-owner of Intrinsic Events; and Nicholas China, partner in Pixilated Photobooth. ered to legislators as soon as early Febru- ary, according to Del. Adrienne A. Jones, D-Baltimore County Adrienne and the speaker pro Jones For company founders only tem of the House of Delegates. New networking group hopes to create a unique space for startups Jones said that Democrats un- derstand the message of the election BY ANNA ISAACS than a thousand this year. They’re pre- of the networking and friend-making and voter concerns about taxes and [email protected] paring to manufacture the booths for portion of the company. He started to the economy. sale internationally “for the enterprise notice a pattern arise at these events -- “We’ve heard what our constit- Patrick Rife started Baltimore-based space,” Rife said – think social media repeat offenses of what he calls “getting uency has said,” Jones said. “We’ve company Pixilated with Nic China three marketing, even clothing-store dressing men-in-blacked” by a business-minded heard from the business commu- years ago with the idea of creating an rooms. interloper. nity.” open-air photo booth package for wed- They’re also designing an enterprise “You find that person and you really A committee established last year dings, bar mitzvahs, birthdays, galas – software suite. start to hit it off, and your conversation to examine ways to make the state anywhere party people might want to In other words, they’re growing. is the easiest conversation you could more business-friendly is expected mug for a camera, perhaps with props, “We started to have much different have hoped for,” he said. “And then to continue its work through the fall. and without the exclusivity of a box. conversations for the next level of our all of a sudden you get tapped on the During that time, the group will study Pixilated served 700 events last business,” he said. year and is on track to work more And all the while, Rife took care SEE STARTUP 5A SEE GBC 4A Worker settles ‘exploding-wrench’ suit against former employer for $2.5M he tried to remove a heating element He had undergone back surgery in would not allow him to use a newer Injury at rail yard left man from a cylinder-like tank, according 2004 and was using a cane on the day wrench or a pneumatic device to re- permanently disabled to his lawsuit against The Maryland & he was injured, the complaint said. move the piece, the lawsuit states. Delaware Railroad Co. Blades needed Blades’ manager ordered him to A pneumatic device was available BY DANNY JACOBS a spinal stimulator implanted after the remove the heating element with a but the correct socket was not on site, [email protected] fall and can no longer work due to the 24-inch pipe wrench, the complaint according to Myers. chronic pain, one of his lawyers said. states. Robert E. Myers, Blades’ law- Blades could not move his legs after A Federalsburg man has reached a Blades was 38 years old at the time yer, said the wrench’s handle, which the fall and was taken to a hospital for $2.5 million settlement with his former of the accident and had been working should have been straight, was bowed treatment, according to the lawsuit. employer over a rail yard accident that for the Federalsburg-based rail com- or U-shaped. After Blades was injured, his man- left him permanently disabled. pany since 2001, most recently as chief “It was falling apart,” Myers said. ager reassembled the wrench and had Michael A. Blades II injured his mechanical officer, according to the “The metal was breaking down.” someone else finish the work, Myers back in October 2009 when he fell after lawsuit filed in April 2012 in U.S. Dis- The general manager turned down SEE SETTLEMENT 12A a wrench “exploded” in his hands as trict Court in Baltimore. Blades’ request for assistance and Auction sales 24B News briefs 4A Lawyer to lawyer 13-14A $269 per year For subscriptions Calendar 6A Law briefs 12A Online today 2A call 1-800-451-9998 or email Employment 7A Litigation support 13-14A Public notice 15B INDEX $2 per copy [email protected] 2A THEDAILYRECORD.COM Tuesday, January 27, 2015 ONLINE TODAY BLOGS UPCOMING SPECIAL At Hopkins, Lessons revisited from Martin Luther King Jr. READ science gets social Matthew T. 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Tuesday, January 27, 2015 THEDAILYRECORD.COM 3A Continental buys Florida complex for $44.25 million Second recent purchase in Naples area By Adam Bednar [email protected] Baltimore-based real estate company Continental Realty Corp. announced Monday it has acquired an apartment complex in Naples, Florida, for $44.25 million. The company purchased the recently completed 273-unit Sierra Grande Apartments from two Miami-based companies, 13th Floor Investments and The Estate Cos. The purchase marks the second time in 18 months the company has acquired a property in Naples. It also purchased the 350-unit Aventine in summer 2013. “Based on our continuing research and experience in Naples over the COURTESY CONTINENTAL REALTY CORP. past 18 years, our team is extremely Baltimore-based Continental Realty Corp. has acquired its second property in Naples, Florida, a 273-unit apartment complex, for $44.25 million. optimistic on the long-term economic prospects and continued growth of this sub-market, and this latest acquisition are continually attracted to the South conditions” derailed those plans and Fifth,” Angel said. “The area is growing creates a critical mass of apartment Florida region based on its warm year- only one building was completed. After at a rate well above the national average. units in our portfolio,” Anne Angel, vice around climate.” a sale a new owner changed the project New employers are entering the area president of the residential division, said Amenities at Sierra Grande to an apartment complex and then and creating jobs and new residents. in a news release. “We see expansion Apartments include a lounge area with nished all six buildings. The vibrant pace of new commercial of the infrastructure taking place in Wi-Fi, a billiards room and state-of-the- “We are extremely familiar with the and residential construction along the area, expansion of the universities art tness center.