Warehouse

Developers expect to complete the second major warehouse at the new Baltimore Crossroads @95 business park in Baltimore County by July, First Industrial Realty Trust Inc. said yesterday. First Industrial, a developer of industrial buildings, started work on a 300,000-square-foot warehouse despite the lack of a tenant. The Chicago-based company also is completing a 130,000- square-foot building for moving company Alexander's Mobility Services to occupy in the next 30 days. Eventually, the 1,000-acre, mixed use business park near White Marsh is expected to employ more than 10,000 workers at more than 5 million square feet of flex/office, office, warehouse and industrial space, 400,000 square feet of shops and two hotels.

A St. Louis company is planning to build a $6 million warehouse on the site of the demolished Fairfield Homes public housing project in southern Baltimore.The project by privately held Madison Warehouse Corp. represents the first major new undertaking announced for Fairfield since the industrial peninsula was designated part of a $100 million federal urban revitalization area nearly five years ago, city officials said yesterday.Officials hope that the project will spur further development in Fairfield, which is part of the federal empowerment zone renewal area and which is undergoing substantial upgrades to its roads, storm drains and water lines.

A three-alarm fire at a warehouse in Woodbine extensively damaged the building's office last night and caused heavy smoke and water damage to the remainder of the single-story cinder block building, said a Carroll County Fire Board spokesman.Damage was set at $100,000, said Bill Dailey Jr. owner of the 30-year-old A-aarid Enterprise Corp. warehouse in the 7700 block of Woodbine Road near the border with Howard County.On the way to the blaze, the six-man crew of a Mount Airy Volunteer Fire Company fire engine suffered minor injuries when the vehicle ran off the road at Flag Marsh and Watersville roads, said the Fire Board spokesman.

Alleging violations of her religious freedom, a 31-year-old Jehovah's Witness from Harford County is suing Saks Fifth Avenue of Harford County for transferring her from the human resources department to the department store's warehouse.In a suit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, Tamara R. Green of Havre de Grace claims she was sent to the warehouse in 1997 after declining to celebrate her boss' birthday and refusing to dress up as a Hershey's Kiss to participate in a company Halloween party.

Larry J. Dabney was no stranger to work. For years, he has helped run several family beauty salons in Baltimore. Since December, he has worked at The Sun's Glen Burnie warehouse, and he was considering getting a third job.Dabney, 40, of Owings Mills was leaving a friend's house to return to work at the newspaper warehouse when he was fatally shot about 11: 30 p.m. Friday in the 4500 block of Homer Ave.Police had not determined a motive in the shooting.Mike...

Firefighters found a body in a vacant South Baltimore warehouse that was destroyed in a fire yesterday, said Battalion Chief Hector L. Torres.He said the fire in the warehouse in the 1200 block of Ward St. was reported about 3 p.m. and extinguished in about an hour.Torres said the body was taken to the state medical examiner's office for an autopsy and identification. "Vagrants used the empty warehouse for shelter," he said.Pub Date: 6/05/98

The Hampstead Town Council last night failed to override the mayor's veto of an ordinance that would have placed zoning restrictions on building warehouses in town.Expressing concerns about truck traffic and air pollution, Council members Wayne H. Thomas and Wendy L. Martin made a motion to override the mayor's veto and argued for controls on warehouses in town.But their motion was defeated by a vote of 3-to-2.Council members Stephen A. Holland, Lawrence H. Hentz Jr. and Haven N. Shoemaker Jr. voted against the motion.

Three western Howard County teen-agers are accused of breaking into a Mount Airy bicycle warehouse Thanksgiving night and stealing $40,000 in bicycles and equipment, police said.The merchandise was hidden in woods surrounding a Woodbine farm, police said. A pickup truck pulling onto an Ellicott City elementary school parking lot caught the attention of a Howard County police officer."They said they were looking for a quick way to make some cash," said Howard County Pfc. Kelly Smith, who made the arrests near the school.

Canned food, clothing, furniture, blankets and other items to be distributed to the needy were stolen over the weekend from a West Baltimore warehouse operated by activist Bea Gaddy, police said yesterday.A volunteer discovered the break-in about 2 p.m. yesterday when he opened the one-story warehouse in the 2400 block of W. Baltimore St.A spokeswoman for Bea Gaddy's Women and Children Center Inc. in the 100 block of N. Collington Ave. said the stolen items included new shoes and purses.Pub Date: 6/30/98

Safeway Inc. will open a $91 million, state-of-the-art distribution center today in Prince George's County, doing so to position itself for growth and greater efficiency in the Baltimore-Washington region.The center in Upper Marlboro, which replaces an outdated warehouse in nearby Landover, should help the food retailer better compete in an area teeming with new and expanding grocery chains as well as discounters that now sell groceries, said Greg TenEyck, spokesman for Safeway's Eastern Division.

David Allen O'Donoghue, a retired E. J. Korvette warehouse manager, died Sunday of liver failure at Charlestown retirement community. He was 86. Mr. O'Donoghue was born in Frederick and raised in Emmitsburg, where he graduated from Emmitsburg High School. He attended the Maryland Institute College of Art. During World War II, he served in the Navy as a chief petty officer aboard the aircraft carrier USS Bennington in the Pacific. He was discharged in 1946. The former Westview Park resident went to work in 1963 for the now-defunct Korvette's, a discount department store, and managed the company's furniture and carpet warehouse in Jessup until 1977.

Ten people were rushed to a hospital Thursday and treated for symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning after abnormally high levels of the gas were detected in a Rosedale warehouse. About 60 employees at the two-story, 155,000-square-foot Case Mason packing warehouse at 9101 Yellow Brick Road were evacuated before noon after the carbon monoxide alarm went off, said Elise Armacost, a Baltimore County Fire Department spokeswoman. An adjoining business also was evacuated. The 10 people taken to Franklin Square Hospital Center all exhibited minor or moderate symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning, Armacost said.

Jane Seleski says she is usually very grounded, but when the Glen Burnie rental home she lived in with her two teenage sons burned to the ground in July, she could not think clearly. Their clothes, photos, furniture - all of it was gone. But somehow, in her daze, she found another home to rent. And then a friend connected her to H.O.P.E. Inc., an organization that helps people in desperate situations like hers. Within days, volunteers at the organization - whose acronym stands for He Opens Paths for Everyone - had delivered beds, bureaus, dining and living room sets, clothes, shoes, kitchen utensils, pots, pans and plates to her new home.

A few days before Oriole Park at Camden Yards officially opened in April 1992, the Orioles hosted the New York Mets and former Orioles star Eddie Murray for an exhibition game. Dr. Charles Steinberg, then the club's director of public affairs, saw it as an opportunity to get the two leading home run hitters in club history at the time - Murray and Boog Powell - together for a photo shoot. The trio was in Steinberg's new second-floor office in the B&O Warehouse overlooking right field when Steinberg turned to Murray and said, "Wouldn't it be something if you hit my window today?"

Brand Energy and Infrastructure Services, which provides pipeline infrastructure and building materials for the construction industry, is moving an operations center that will employ about 100 workers from Beltsville to a redeveloped warehouse in Southeast Baltimore. Construction is to start at the Holabird Industrial Park on Monday to redevelop the 15-acre site of the former Lesaffre Yeast Corp. manufacturing plant, which closed in late 2005. Principals of Baltimore brokerage firm Corridor Reznick LLC acquired the property for $2 million in December 2006 and have been doing environmental cleanup and marketing, Michael B. Glick, chairman of Corridor Reznick LLC, said yesterday.

Everything must go! From desks to Dictaphones, TVs to tea trays and Weed Eaters to whiffle bats, Gov. Martin O'Malley wants to sell it all. All the jetsam of state government is sitting in a warehouse in Jessup, a 60,000-square-foot collection of the mundane and bizarre that has been up for sale to the public for decades. But as part of its search for inefficiencies in state government, the O'Malley administration figured out that to warehouse the stuff costs as much as - and some years, more than - the state gets from selling it. Not to mention that the warehouse and its 9.3 acres of land are assessed at $2.4 million, cash the state could use as it tries to close a $1.5 billion budget shortfall.

A four-alarm fire destroyed a vacant warehouse in Southwest Baltimore yesterday afternoon, despite more than 100 firefighters struggling for three hours in the sweltering heat and humidity to get the blaze under control. Fire officials believe that no one was in the building during the fire, said Chief Kevin Cartwright, a department spokesman, and that no injuries were reported. Two firefighters were taken to Mercy Medical Center because of heat exhaustion, Cartwright said. The cause of the blaze is under investigation.

A six-alarm fire raged last night through a Violetville warehouse that housed a family-owned trucking business and offices of a foundation that supports critically ill children. The roof collapsed on the building in the 1400 block of Rome Road, which housed Wollenweber's Trucking and Warehousing. The family-owned company donates office space to the Casey Cares Foundation, which offers programs for sick children and their families. Fire companies from Howard County as well as Baltimore City and central and eastern Baltimore County sent about 175 firefighters and about 45 pieces of equipment to the one-story, 250-foot-long cinderblock building.

Baltimore : South side Blaze destroys warehouse A one-story warehouse in South Baltimore was destroyed Friday night in a fire, according to authorities. The fire started about 10 p.m. at the Safe Imports building in the 1500 block of Parksley Ave., and it took firefighters until 4 a.m. to bring it under control, department spokesman Chief Kevin Cartwright said yesterday. No one was injured. According to public records, the building housed Safe Imports Inc., which manufactures bedspreads and other linens.

Developers expect to complete the second major warehouse at the new Baltimore Crossroads @95 business park in Baltimore County by July, First Industrial Realty Trust Inc. said yesterday. First Industrial, a developer of industrial buildings, started work on a 300,000-square-foot warehouse despite the lack of a tenant. The Chicago-based company also is completing a 130,000- square-foot building for moving company Alexander's Mobility Services to occupy in the next 30 days. Eventually, the 1,000-acre, mixed use business park near White Marsh is expected to employ more than 10,000 workers at more than 5 million square feet of flex/office, office, warehouse and industrial space, 400,000 square feet of shops and two hotels.