Washington Business Journal

MGM National Harbor is looking at moving some of its gaming operations into the great outdoors.

American University has received two donations to put toward building a new 58,000-square-foot athletics facility, the Center for Athletic Performance.

John Taylor Chapman is the owner of Manumission Tour Co., a member of Alexandria City Council and a fourth-generation Alexandrian. Call him the Virginia city’s “night mayor.”

The Kimpton Palomar Washington D.C. will drop the Kimpton brand and get a new name and management before the end of 2020.

A historic 1,511-acre farm in southwestern Loudoun County, Virginia, has sold for $15.6 million.

Black-owned restaurants in D.C. will have access to a new business accelerator program starting next year.

The former Pizzeria Paradiso space in Alexandria, Virginia, will be filled by Emmy Squared, a Detroit-style pizza and burger joint.

The tidal basin is well, tidal — which means it’s prone to flood, a situation that’s only expected to get worse as climate change and sea level rise take their toll in the coming decades. 

Montgomery County is accepting applications for a grant program to help small restaurants and retailers survive the winter.

The couple, who graduated in the late 1990s, were looking for philanthropic opportunities in the area of hunger and food insecurity.

The local biotech has initiated its first Phase Three trial in the U.K. while continuing to run other ongoing studies of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, Novavax said Thursday.

Saul Centers Inc. has seen a gradual increase in its retail rent collections and a reduction in the number of tenants seeking rent deferrals as Covid-19 restrictions have eased and shoppers return.

JBG Smith Properties (NYSE: JBGS) has paid $25.3 million for licenses to use small parts of a new class of wireless spectrum to set up a 5G internet network in National Landing, home to Amazon.com Inc.’s second headquarters and Virginia Tech’s innovation campus.

The value of the Washington Football Team has climbed 3% since the start of the last NFL season to $3.5 billion, but the franchise fell one spot in Forbes’ annual ranking of team valuations.

Virginia Tech’s new “Innovation Campus” has launched its first semester, but not yet in its future North Potomac Yard home in Alexandria.

Under Armour Inc. said late Tuesday it will lay off 600 employees as part of an expansion of a cost-cutting plan related to the impact of the pandemic.

Jollibee has selected Wheaton, Maryland, for its first Greater Washington outpost.

The Restaurant Association of Maryland, which is spearheading the effort, announced that the inaugural Maryland Restaurant Week will be held Sept. 18-27.

The Mazza Gallerie sold for $38 million to the highest bidder in a foreclosure auction Friday.

A Shaw rowhome just listed for sale may have set the new high mark for asking price in the historic Northwest D.C. neighborhood.

Gaithersburg officials say a distribution center of some kind could still be accommodated on the property under the city’s zoning rules adjacent to other buildings there.

Maryland and Virginia are tapping local hospitals to conduct antibody studies to determine the reach of COVID-19.

Bestselling author Tom Clancy’s beloved Peregrine Cliff estate in Southern Maryland sold on Monday for $4.9 million.

Amazon.com is inching ever closer to opening two cashier-less grocery stores in the D.C. area.