Loudoun Silver Line station names finalized with Metro board approval

Just closing the loop on what turned out to be an anti-climactic search for the names that will don two of the three Loudoun County Silver Line stations.

The Metro board on Thursday, unanimously and without discussion, approved “Loudoun Gateway” for the Route 606 station, and “Ashburn” for the Route 772 station. They are the same names the Loudoun board picked last month.

Ashburn and Loudoun Gateway will join the pre-ordained Washington Dulles International Airport (which, really, is Loudoun’s…

Exclusive: Why a Mon River steel plant keeps getting looked at for ethane cracker

Had things gone differently, southwestern Pennsylvania might have held the potential for not one, but two, ethane cracker plants.

According to Washington County Commissioner Larry Maggi, Marubeni Corp. and PTT Global Chemical, which last week announced they had chosen Belmont County, Ohio, as the home for its proposed plant, had been eying a brownfield site along the Monongahela River.

“Obviously, we’re disappointed,” said Maggi, who added that local officials, along those at the state level,…

T. Rowe, UMB send workers home early as businesses prepare for more protests

Downtown Baltimore’s biggest employers and office buildings took precautions Monday as protests over the death of Freddie Gray in police custody are expected to continue, with at least one major Inner Harbor workplace and the University of Maryland, Baltimore closing early.

T. Rowe Price Group Inc. (NASDAQ: TROW) closed its downtown offices at 2 p.m. The money manager, headquartered at 100 E. Pratt, employs 1,262 people downtown.

The move came because of concerns that large crowds would gather…

Franklin Synergy nabs health care banking team from CapStar

Franklin Synergy Bank is getting into health care lending. And it’s doing so by taking a team of bankers from one of its Nashville peers.

The Franklin-based bank said Tim Fouts and Lisa Fletcher left CapStar Bank to launch Franklin Synergy’s new health care banking outfit. Fouts formerly led CapStar’s health care lending group. He will serve in that same capacity with Franklin Synergy.

This broadens Franklin Synergy’s lending lines, which to date has focused primarily on real estate financing,…

Campus Crest brings in turnaround execs to fill top posts

Still struggling to improve its operations, Campus Crest Communities Inc. (NYSE:CCG) is retaining management consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal North America and placed two executives from that company at the helm.

Campus Crest’s board has approved the appointment of David Coles as interim chief executive and John Makuch as chief financial officer. Both men are managing directors for Alvarez & Marsal, and will be filling roles left vacant after the resignation of the Charlotte company’s CEO and CFO…