After a great run at our current office on Sterrett Place in downtown Columbia, we are headed to our new office on Old Dobbin Lane! We will be laboring a bit over Labor Day weekend as we finish unpacking at the new space which will put us in a central location close to Columbia Gateway, Howard County's largest business center! While we will open for business on September 5th, we ask that you delay any visits until Monday, September 11th, to allow us time to fully unpack. Our new address will be 6240 Old Dobbin Lane - Suite 110.

We are very happy to announce that Karen O'Conner has joined the Chamber team as our new Office Administrator. Karen is a Baltimore native who lives in Finksburg now with her husband and five kids between the ages of 4 and 16, so we know she can multitask! 

You can reach Karen by email at [email protected].

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We are also excited to announce that Jen Nussbaum, of ProActive Medical Consultants, has just joined our fantastic list of Chamber Ambassadors! Jen has been active with the Chamber for years and is heavily involved in the community and we are lucky to have her join the committee.

In meetings earlier this year with Senator Chris Van Hollen and Congressman John Sarbanes, Chamber members and Chamber President Leonardo McClarty made it clear that access to capital was one of the biggest challenges small business owners face.  Now the Maryland General Assembly, along with the Governor's Office of Small, Minority & Women Business Affairs, has formed a task force looking to find out more about the very same challenge.

We encourage our small business members to take a few minutes and participate in the confidential survey created by the task force. The survey is available until August 15, 2017.

From August 13th through the 19th you won't have to pay a sales tax when you shop for qualifying clothing or footwear priced at $100 of less or on the first $40 of a backpack or bookbag purchase.

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Howard County's Summer Restaurant Week kicked off last week with 29 restaurants participating, including plenty of Chamber members. The participating restaurants are offering special menus to celebrate through August 7th!

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This past weekend marked the one-year-anniversary of the devastating flood that swept through Old Ellicott City. Chamber staff worked with our member businesses on Main Street to make sure the media focused on all the hard work they have done over the past year and all that they have been through. Both the Baltimore Sun and WJZ - CBS 13 in Baltimore committed to interviews with members. A link to the Baltimore Sun's story is below and WJZ will be airing interviews some time this week. We will add a link to those stories once they have aired.

We are proud of all of our amazing member businesses on Main Street, including those that have not been able to return to their Main Street locations yet. We are so impressed with how LaPalapa Grill & Cantina, Pure Wine Cafe, Pam Long Photography, The Massage Boutique, A La Mode Boutique, HorseSpirit Arts Gallery, Fishbein & Fishbein, PA and Park Ridge Trading Co. have handled all the challenges of the past year.

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Congratulations to Paul Skalny, Attorney and Managing Director of Davis, Agnor, Rapaport & Skalny, LLC, (DARS) who is now chair of Howard County General Hospital's board of trustees! 

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• Atlantic Financial Inc
• CipherLogix, Inc.
• ManneqART
• ThinkB!G.LearnSmart

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The following organizations joined the HCCC this week in history! We couldn't do what we do without you!

• Howard County Library System - 24 Year Anniversary
• Howard County Economic Development Authority - 23 Year Anniversary
• The Maryland Center for Entrepreneurship - 23 Year Anniversary
• The Evergreens at Columbia Town Center, LLC - 14 Year Anniversary
• Great Harvest Bread Co. - 12 Year Anniversary
• Koffel Associates, Inc. - 6 Year Anniversary

Join Clothes Mentor for their Grand Opening with drinks and hors d'oeuvres.

August 10, 2017 - 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.

8865 Stanford Blvd Suite 125

Columbia, MD 21045