Baltimore Business Journal  |  Melody Simmons Name: Edward St. John Education: Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, University of Maryland Age: 81 Title: Founder and chairman Company: St. John Properties Ed St. John has a succinct way of summing up his many decades in real estate development. “I play Monopoly with real money and real buildings,” he says. “I don’t work. I […]

Our Maple Lawn client RackTop Systems was featured in the Baltimore Business Journal: Baltimore Business Journal  |  Ryan Sharrow RackTop Systems, a nine-year-old Howard County developer of secure systems used for storing data, has raised $15 million in funding. The Series A financing round was led by Razor’s Edge Ventures and Grotech Ventures. Participants in the round […]

Baltimore citybizlist Maryland’s newest craft brewery located at 11695 Crossroads Circle Pooles Island Brewing Company, recognized as Maryland’s newest craft brewery, has scheduled a public grand opening at its new location at 11695 Crossroads Circle, situated in the Greenleigh at Crossroads business community near White Marsh in Baltimore County beginning at 5 pm. Positioned just […]

CoStar  |  Tony Wilbert St. John Properties, a development and investment company, has tapped Brandon Jenkins to lead its business in Colorado. The Baltimore-based firm said this week it promoted Jenkins to regional partner. In his new role, Jenkins, who joined St. John in 2014 and completed its partner-in-training program, will oversee the company’s development-and-acquisition […]

The Frederick News-Post  |  Ryan Marshall The carmaker Subaru already has a presence in the city of Frederick, and the company will build a second training facility in a city technology park. Subaru of America, the U.S. branch of the Japanese-based Subaru Corp., is expected to open its 16,200-square-foot Automotive Performance and Training Facility in […]

The Frederick News-Post | Ryan Marshall The combination of an ongoing development project and one that’s just getting started should bring plenty of new additions to an area along Buckeystown Pike in the next few years. The Westview South development will be adding a new Wendy’s to its mix of eateries, shops and hotels. Meanwhile, […]

Baltimore Business Journal  |  Amanda Yeager A new hotel is joining the mix in Howard County’s Maple Lawn development. The 103-room Residence Inn by Marriott opened at 11800 West Market Place on Feb. 11. The hotel, owned by Frederick-based Plamondon Hospitality Partners, primarily caters to extended-stay travelers and offers studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom suites. It’s […]

Frederick News Post  |  Ryan Marshall The commercial real estate developer St. John Properties has begun work on a business park that will ultimately have nearly 200,000 square feet of warehouse space. The first phase of three buildings in the Arcadia Business Park off Md. 85 in Frederick is expected to be finished this summer, […]