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.