Offices In Baltimore

Coldwell Banker names Knobloch, Schultz regional VPs Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage has given Tim Knobloch a bigger office. The company announced this month his appointment as regional vice president. Previously the branch vice president of the Washington, D.C./Chevy Chase office, the Rockville resident and father of three will oversee the company's sales offices in Baltimore, Carroll, Charles, Frederick, Prince George's, St. Mary's and Washington counties. In a separate announcement, Coldwell also said Roni Schultz has been appointed vice president for the central region.

The last time the office market was this lousy, Manekin LLC made a fleeting foray into residential development. This time, the Columbia company best known for building, brokering and managing offices says it has branched out for keeps. Projects in early stages in Harford County, Cecil County, Delaware and Pennsylvania will produce in excess of 3,500 lots over the long haul - more than a decade - for the company to sell to builders. "Rather than starting small, we're starting large," said Richard Alter, president and chief executive officer of the 150-employee company.

An Austin, Texas-based firm has purchased a subsidiary of the Rouse Co. that leases furnished business offices for as short a period as an hour, the companies said yesterday. The Rouse subsidiary, ExecuCentre LLC, has four offices in Baltimore, Columbia and Owings Mills. The buyer is BusinesSuites, a national provider of furnished offices with flexible leases. Before yesterday's acquisition, the company had 10 centers in Austin, Baltimore, Dallas, Houston and Las Vegas. BusinesSuites said it has 170,000 square feet of office space in top-tier buildings.

Former Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, known for widening business opportunities for minorities, is opening a branch of his securities company in Baltimore. Jackson Securities Inc., which has already hired a Baltimore representative, will open the office as soon as the company can find space, Jackson said yesterday during a meeting with Mayor Martin O'Malley. Jackson introduced his company to O'Malley during a one-hour meeting, while also trying to sell the mayor on the company's services.

A 67-year-old priest has been placed on leave from his Northeast Baltimore parish amid an allegation he sexually abused a teen-ager three decades ago, the Archdiocese of Baltimore announced yesterday. The Rev. George B. Loskarn, pastor at St. Dominic's Roman Catholic Church in the city's Hamilton section, confirmed the allegations made against him Thursday and was removed from his duties that day, said Raymond P. Kempisty, a spokesman for the archdiocese. About 50 members of the congregation were notified at a 1 p.m. parish meeting yesterday.

In his most trying times, Scott A. McElfish did not complain. Since November last year, the Baltimore County police sergeant had endured surgery, radiation treatments, chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant. Like many cancer patients, he lost his hair, lost weight and had to deal with sometimes excruciating pain. And he knew his prognosis was grim. But he remained steadfast. Afflicted with an aggressive cancer called Ewing's sarcoma, he wanted to complete two missions: take his family to Disney World and finish a tree house behind their Parkville home.

Dr. Leonard Saltysiak, 77, optometrist for 50 years Dr. Leonard T. Saltysiak, an optometrist who practiced for five decades and grew roses that he gave to strangers, died Friday of pancreatic cancer at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. He was 77. He maintained offices in Timonium and Parkton for 20 years and later worked out of several offices in Baltimore. He worked until seven weeks before his death. Born and raised in the Govans area of Baltimore, as a boy he worked as a caddy at the Country Club of Maryland in Towson to earn money to help support his five siblings.

The state prosecutor's office said yesterday that it will examine whether Baltimore Sheriff John W. Anderson violated any laws when his wife -- who was hired shortly before their marriage -- took about five months off on sick leave and received full pay. At the same time, the state's top personnel official announced that her office plans to review the sheriff's office's hiring practices and handling of employee benefits, specifically sick leave....

A start-up banking company, headed by a former top executive of Mercantile Bankshares Corp., plans to raise as much as $15 million in an initial public offering.Bay National Corp. plans to sell from 900,000 to 1.5 million shares to the public at $10 a share.Hugh W. Mohler, a former executive vice president at Mercantile, who is president and chief executive officer of Bay National Corp., declined to comment because the company is in the Securities and Exchange Commission's "quiet period."The offering could begin early next month, if Bay National receives approval from the SEC. It is expected to close Jan. 31, but could be extended to March 31, according to the company's prospectus filed with the SEC.Bay National executives are not using an underwriter and will sell shares in the company themselves.

Crestar Bank said yesterday that it plans to open 75 branches inside Safeway Inc. grocery stores in Baltimore and Washington beginning next year.In addition, the bank will install automated teller machines in 123 Safeway stores that operate in Maryland, Virginia and Washington by 2002.Ten ATMs will be placed in stores in greater Baltimore, said J. Scott Wilfong, president of Crestar's Maryland region. "It is a significant investment. It is a real opportunity for us to continue to expand our franchise here," Wilfong said.