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October 9, 2025 — Greysteel, a leading national commercial real estate and capital markets services firm, has arranged an approximately $93 million senior construction loan on behalf of a developer for horizontal infrastructure for a large-scale, master-planned residential community in Brunswick County, North Carolina. The project is set to deliver over 2,000 single-family lots, with five national and regional homebuilders already under contract for lot takedowns.
October 9, 2025 — Third year of partnership, support doubled Road to Responsibility (RTR), one of the region’s largest and most successful nonprofit organizations supporting individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, is pleased to announce its renewed partnership PLAN of MA and RI, now in its third year. The partnership between the two nonprofit organizations was established in October of 2023.
October 9, 2025 — Brian Gleason is the Chief Executive Officer of Seedtag, the global leader in neuro-contextual advertising. Appointed in August 2025, he leads the company’s continued expansion across CTV and the open web, steering its mission to redefine digital advertising through Seedtag’s proprietary AI platform, Liz.
October 9, 2025 — Siobhan Shaw is a nonprofit leader, storyteller, and patient advocate using the power of community and conversation to spark change. She is the co-founder of Growing to Give (G2G), home to the largest food forest in the nation, where she writes and speaks frequently on gardening, sustainability, and food justice.
October 9, 2025 — Zachary Streit, Founder and President of Priority Capital Advisory, has arranged a $31. 3 million loan on behalf of Six Peak Capital, a Los Angeles-based developer and investment firm.
October 9, 2025 — Henrico County–based Owens & Minor is slimming down. The Fortune 500 healthcare logistics company said Wednesday it will sell its largest business segment — Products & Healthcare Services — to Platinum Equity for $375 million, a move that will sharply redefine its footprint and strategy.
October 9, 2025 — SHUTDOWN PUTS SPOTLIGHT ON MARYLAND DEPENDENCE ON FEDERAL FUNDING: As the federal government shutdown stretches into another week, Maryland’s deep dependence on Washington dollars is once again under the microscope — raising questions about whether state leaders have done enough to diversify the economy and protect taxpayers from the fallout of federal instability. Tessa Bentulan/The Baltimore Sun.
October 9, 2025 — Maryland Democratic officials on Wednesday thanked federal workers who are continuing to show up for work during the government shutdown even though they’re not getting paid right now for their service. The officials held a morning news conference at the BWI airport to call attention to the plight of Transportation Safety agents, air traffic controllers and others designated “essential workers” and therefore required to report for work.
October 9, 2025 — The government shutdown continues into its second week as Congress has yet to come to a deal on a budget bill. The shutdown began at midnight on October 1, the close of the 2025 fiscal year, and the Senate remains in a stalemate over a funding plan to reopen the government.
October 9, 2025 — TrueBlue, a leading provider of specialized workforce solutions, announced today that President and CEO Taryn Owen and PeopleReady President Kristy Willis have been named to the Staffing Industry Analysts’ Global Power 150 Women in Staffing list, which recognizes the most influential women shaping the future of the staffing industry across the global workforce ecosystem. “This recognition is a testament to the exceptional leadership that Taryn and Kristy bring to TrueBlue and the industry overall,” said Jeff Sakaguchi, Board Chair of TrueBlue.
October 8, 2025 — Record-setting summer underscores EFM’s ability to deliver precision, reliability and speed around the world in multiple verticals. EFM Global (EFM), a leading international logistics consultant specialising in complex projects, has successfully executed 17 air charters in just 60 days this summer, more than triple the industry’s typical seasonal average of five to six charters.
October 8, 2025 — Affiliated Development, a leading real estate development, investment and asset management firm, announces the launch of its second impact investment fund, Affiliated Housing Impact Fund II, LP (the “Fund”). Building on the success of its inaugural fund launched in 2020, this new $250 million Fund will deploy equity capital to finance Affiliated’s pipeline of high-quality, mixed-income workforce housing projects across Florida, addressing the state’s critical housing shortage with attainable, Class A living solutions.
October 8, 2025 — Xpansiv, the leading infrastructure provider for the global energy transition markets, today announced a phased initiative to enable the tokenization of environmental assets and their performance data on the Canton Network, an institutional-grade blockchain for regulated financial markets. As institutional markets increasingly embrace tokenization, Xpansiv is advancing its infrastructure to support asset-level data authentication, issuance, and performance-linked financial instruments.
October 8, 2025 — From his North End workshop to Downtown Boston, Tommy Mac brings his collection of rockers, armchairs, stools, and more to 155 Federal Street Tommy MacDonald, Boston native and former host of Rough Cut: Woodworking with Tommy Mac on PBS from 2010 through 2016, is proud to announce the opening of his first-ever public showroom at 155 Federal Street in Boston’s Financial District on Thursday, October 16thfrom 10:00 am – 12:00 pm. The new space is a true one-stop shop, featuring his signature collection of rockers, armchairs, kitchen stools, live edge tables, beds, and more – all handcrafted at his North End workshop using the finest North American hardwoods.
October 8, 2025 — Community workshop to spotlight challenges facing Florida Girls Girl Scouts of Southeast Florida and the League of Women Voters of Palm Beach County will co-host a free community workshop, to share findings from the State of the Florida Girl, a comprehensive study examining the critical challenges confronting girls across the state on Thursday, October 16, from 3 to 5 p. m.
October 8, 2025 — Boca Helping Hands is seeking support from the community to distribute meals to families for Thanksgiving. Its 21st annual Thanksgiving Box Brigade program, which provides a turkey, and a box filled with everything a family needs to prepare a holiday meal, will feed approximately 24,000 people.
October 8, 2025 — Hakob Astabatsyan is the CEO and Co-founder of Synthflow, the world’s #1 voice AI agent platform. He’s scaled the company 13X in ARR, powering over 45 million AI-driven calls for 1,500+ companies around the world—without a single second of hold music.
October 8, 2025 — The Dog Stop, the all-inclusive and award-winning dog care brand, is excited to announce a new location in Oviedo, Florida. Set to open October 18, the new location will be located at 1370 Oviedo Mall Blvd.
October 8, 2025 — Robert Rivani, Founder of RIVANI, announced today that Monarch Athletic Club, the physician-led wellness destination redefining health and wellness, will open an 8,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art wellness facility at The RIVANI Miami Beach, his flagship Class X office building located at 1691 Michigan Avenue. This marks Monarch Athletic Club’s first expansion outside of Los Angeles, where the concept has cultivated a devoted following of health-conscious executives, athletes, and entrepreneurs.
October 8, 2025 — Dublin, California, October 7, 2025 – Today, Ross Stores, operator of the largest off-price retail chain in the United States, announced that four new Ross Dress for Less stores will open in the Detroit area on October 11th as part of a broader wave of new stores opening nationwide. “We’re excited to grow our presence in the Detroit area with the addition of four new stores across the local community.
