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On January 21, 2006 ELIZABETH V. "BETTY" (nee Bagby) of Westminster, mother of Theresa Fadely, Victoria Gouker and Jason Cunningham, mother-in-law of Richard K. Fadely, Earl Gouker and Missy Cunningham, sister of Joan Shelton. Also survived by 10 grandchildren, one great-grandson, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews. Memorial service Wednesday 4 P.M. at Westminster Baptist Church, 354 Crest lane, Westminster. Interment private. Memorial contributions may be made to Make-A-Wish Foundation, 17 Warren Rd., Suite 22A, Baltimore, Md. 21208.

Starting Monday, Bagby Pizza is expanding its delivery area to the East Baltimore neighborhoods of Harbor East, Little Italy, Fells Point and Butchers Hill. The restaurant will deliver, in addition to its pizzas, a full menu of sandwiches, salads, soups and pastas. Bagby's delivery service will run Monday through Wednesday from 5 p.m.-9 p.m., Thursdays from 5 p.m.-9:30 p.m. and weekends from noon until close. There's a minimum delivery order of $12 and a delivery fee of $2. See also: Baltimores' oddest special deliveries Follow Baltimore Diner on Twitter @gorelickingood  

On July 8, 2008, EDNA BAGBY. Survived by sons, Charles Babgby(Penny) of MS., daughters, Joan A. Moliki and Pamela Jones, sisters, Alice and Jeanne Lee, six grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and a host of other family and friends. Family will receive friends Saturday at the Manna Bible Baptist Church, 3043 W. Belvedere Avenue for the 3:00P.M. wake 3:30P.M. funeral. Interment Following. Inquires at www.wyliefuneralhome.com

The Bagby Restaurant Group  ( Bagby Pizza , Ten Ten , Fleet Street Kitchen ) sent out news about its fourth restaurant, Cunningham's, which will open this summer in the renovated Towson City Center. There's a slight name change. The restaurant was originally announced as Cunningham Kitchen. And Cunningham's will have a little brother in Towson City Center, a casual ground-floor space named Cunningham Cafe & Bakery. Cunningham's, like Fleet Street Kitchen, will feature dishes from "local, sustainable meats, produce and housemade ingredients.

On September 21, 2004, JAMES F. BAGBY; cherished son of John and the late Viola Bagby; beloved brother of Jean Green. Graduated from Cardinal Gibbons High School in 1976; veteran of the Army. Relatives and friends may call at the family owned AMBROSE FUNERAL HOME OF LANSDOWNE, 2719 Hammonds Ferry Road, on Monday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Tuesday at 10 A.M. at St. Clement I Catholic Church. Interment following at the Veteran Cemetery of Garrison Forest.

Carol Bagby Hannan, a Baltimore native who moved to the Washington area as a young woman, died Thursday at the Oak Meadow Nursing Home in Alexandria, Va., of a stroke. She was 82.Graveside services for Mrs. Hannan will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Green Mount Cemetery, Greenmount Avenue and Oliver Street. Before the service in Baltimore, there will be an 11 a.m. service at Christ Church, 118 N. Washington St., Alexandria.The former Carol Bagby, who grew up in Roland Park, attended Calvert School and Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore and in 1928 graduated from Mount Vernon Seminary in Washington.

Developers of the historic Bagby Furniture Building in Little Italy said yesterday that they have commitments from retailers to fill well over half the building's newly renovated store space, with the first store, Verizon Wireless, to open tomorrow. Chesapeake Real Estate Group LLC is nearing completion on a $2 million to $3 million transformation of mostly vacant office space into a mix of offices and 25,000 square feet of street-level shops. The development group bought the century-old building at Fleet and Exeter streets just north of Harbor East more than a year ago from Struever Bros.

Joel Marshall Bagby, president of his college and university fund-raising firm, died Saturday of lymphatic cancer at Stella Maris Hospice.He was 64 and lived in Monkton.During his long career, Mr. Bagby advised a number of prominent academic institutions on how to woo students and to coax them as graduates to donate money to their alma maters."His forte was that he was a brilliant writer and conceptualizer," said Gerry Willse, a colleague and friend. "He could get to the heart of the matter and make you understand it."

The historic Bagby Furniture Co. building will get a face-lift and new tenants after its sale to Chesapeake Real Estate Group LLC, which plans to turn the first floor into retail while keeping the top three floors as office space. The building, at Fleet and Exeter streets, could open its retail shops as soon as spring, according to Doug Schmidt, principal of Chesapeake Real Estate. No price was disclosed for its sale last week. "It will be part of the whole walking, mixed-use experience of Harbor East," Schmidt said.

The Maryland Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court decision dismissing a lawsuit filed by the owner of the Bagby building, who sought $5 million in damages from the Little Italy Community Organization and two Little Italy residents for opposing his development plans.One Thousand Fleet Limited Partnership, which owns the Bagby building and is headed by Baltimore developer Patrick Turner, had sued LICO and Little Italy residents John Guerriero and Richard Ingrao, alleging malicious use of process and abuse of process.

  The Sunday review is of Ten Ten, a new bistro in Harbor East. With the opening of Ten Ten, the new Bagby Restaurant Group is two for two. The group opened its first project in 2009 (before it knew it was going to be a group), the Bagby Pizza Company , which showed a knack for pleasing people. Ten Ten (or as the group prefers it, TEN TEN) is adjacent to the pizza place, and every so often, when they leave a pizza in the oven too long, you can smell it in Ten Ten's dining room.  Next up for the Bagby Restaurant Group is Fleet Street Kitchen, an open-kitchen restaurant opening in April 2012, and further down the line, a restaurant in the Towson Town Center named Cunningham Kitchen.

Ten Ten, the handsome new Harbor East restaurant adjacent to the Bagby Pizza Company, is brimming with good ideas about everyday dining. The menu is credited to executive chef Mark Davis, formerly of the Baltimore Country Club. His tenure there, you're tempted to think, instructed him on the fine art of giving people both what they think they want, and what they don't know they want — until they have it. So, the menu at Ten Ten is a smart and compact mix of the accessible and the gee-whiz.

On the eve of Ten Ten's opening, the Bagby Group has been announced as one of the tenants for Towson City Center, a $27 million building planned for Towson Circle. The Bagby Group intends to open a "farm-to-table white tablecloth restaurant" named Cunningham Kitchen in the $27 million building, formerly the Investment Building. Towson University will be moving its College of Health Professions centers to the Towson City Center building, an announcement from the county executive's office said.

Ten Ten is set for a Thursday night opening. Ten Ten is the first of two restaurants promised from David Smith's Bagby Group, owners of the popular Bagby Pizza. Christopher Becker, formerly of the Wine Market, and Mark Davis have both been announced as executive chefs for both Ten Ten and Fleet Street Kitchen, the farm-to-table restaurant opening next year. The phone number for Ten Ten is 410-244-6867, and the restaurant is taking reservations. A spokesperson for the restaurant says that an opening menu, still being tweaked, will be available on Tuesday.

The Bagby Restaurant Group has released details about their two new restaurant concepts in the Bagby Building, along with the news that Christopher "Squints" Becker will be leaving the Wine Market to join its company as co-executive chef with Mark Davis. The first, a contemporary bistro named TEN TEN, and located adjacent to Bagby Pizza Company, is tentatively scheduled to open in late August.  TEN TEN, a Bagby representative says, will offer "a warm urban setting with a contemporary American menu at affordable prices.  It’s a neighborhood café, elegant bistro and eclectic tavern all balanced into one beautiful and inviting space.

Developers of the historic Bagby Furniture Building in Little Italy, on the edge of Harbor East, have boosted the building's occupancy to 80 percent since launching a $5 million renovation of what had been mostly vacant office space. Chesapeake Real Estate Group LLC has brought in 15 new office and retail tenants since buying the building in 2007, when it was 20 percent filled, converting the first-floor offices into street-level shops, adding a lobby and courtyard for outdoor dining and renovating the four levels of offices.

BYE, BYE, Bagby.By year's end, if all goes according to plan, the old furniture company showroom at Fleet and Exeter streets will be transformed into downtown Baltimore's newest office complex.The $12 million conversion is the latest project of Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse, a local construction and development firm that has led the effort to recycle the American Can Co. complex on Boston Street and other city landmarks, and Sylvan Learning Systems."We've moving forward," developer C. William Struever said yesterday.

Bagby Scheiber Classic Home 10429 Stevenson Road, Stevenson 410-415-7997 Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday; Monday by appointment Some furniture and accessories stores are only interested in selling you things. Bagby Scheiber Classic Home, a boutique shop that just opened in Stevenson Village, is going in a different direction. Although the store owners are happy if you just want to stop in and buy a mirror, its design services are an important focus.

When I asked Blake Smith, who has a degree in finance, why he decided to open a pizzeria, he sounded incredulous: "You have to love pizza. C'mon." His new brick-oven pizza place is the Bagby Pizza Co. (1006 Fleet St., 410-605-0444, BagbyPizza.com), just open this week in Harbor East. It's in the old Bagby Furniture building, which is where it gets its name. His chef, if you can call a pizza maker a chef without sounding a little high-falutin', is Kyle Gillies. The menu features gourmet pizza, sandwiches, salads and pasta.