Warehouse

200 new warehouse jobs to come to Harford Co. A northeastern furniture chain has chosen Harford County for its Mid-Atlantic distribution center and will eventually employ about 200 workers at the warehouse in Perryman. Bob's Discount Furniture, which began in 1991 in Newington, Conn., now runs 35 showrooms in seven states. It plans to open a warehouse in Perryman, along the U.S. 40 corridor, this summer. The facility will immediately employ 70, but plans to continue its expansion at the location and add to its work force.

A northeastern furniture chain has chosen Harford County for its Mid-Atlantic distribution center and will eventually employ about 200 workers at the warehouse in Perryman. Bob's Discount Furniture, which began in 1991 in Newington, Conn., now runs 35 showrooms in seven states. It plans to open a warehouse in Perryman, along the U.S. 40 corridor, this summer. The facility will immediately employ 70, but plans to continue its expansion at the location and add to its work force. The county offered the company income tax credits for job creation and enterprise zone economic incentives, officials said.

A northeastern furniture chain has chosen Harford County for its Mid-Atlantic distribution center and will eventually employ about 200 workers at the warehouse in Perryman. Bob's Discount Furniture, which began in 1991 in Newington, Conn., now runs 35 showrooms in seven states. It plans to open a warehouse in Perryman, along the Route 40 corridor, this summer. The facility will immediately employ 70, but plans to continue its expansion at the location and add to its work force. "Our proximity to I-95 and location between Virginia and New Jersey were key reasons for being selected by Bob's Discount Furniture for their distribution center," said Harford County Executive David R. Craig in a press release announcing the move.

SOL PRICE, 93 Price Club founder Sol Price, who changed the retail industry by founding the pioneering warehouse chain Price Club, died of old age Monday at his home in the San Diego community of La Jolla, according his family. Mr. Price invented the discount membership warehouse club concept in 1976 when he and his son opened the first Price Club in San Diego. His idea was to offer a relatively small selection of goods but to sell in bulk at a discount.

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?"

More than a year has passed since Baltimoreans last saw a high-rise building near downtown demolished the old-fashioned way, with a 4-ton wrecking ball rather than explosives. It has been even longer since a high-profile demolition drew no opposition from local preservationists or community activists. That's the case with a 1928 cold food storage warehouse that's being razed this month to make way for an expansion of Maryland's correctional facilities in East Baltimore. For several weeks now, the windowless brick building at Monument and Graves streets has been slowly disappearing, in sight of thousands driving by on the nearby Jones Falls Expressway.

A two-alarm fire caused extensive damage last night to a vacant West Baltimore warehouse. No injuries were reported, but there was evidence that homeless people were using the building as shelter, said Chief Kevin Cartwright, a Fire Department spokesman. He said one man was escorted from the burning building by the first firefighters on the scene. The fire, in the 800 block of N. Franklintown Road near West Lanvale Street, was reported at 10:35 p.m., Cartwright said. It went to two alarms at 10:45 p.m. At least 70 firefighters manning 30 pieces of equipment fought the blaze, he said.