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Openings, closings, and the small businesses that anchor Talbot County's economy.
Local Business tracks the county's economy at street level: new storefronts and openings, business milestones, workforce and hiring trends, and the small-business owners who make up Easton, St. Michaels, Oxford, Trappe, and Talbot County's smaller communities.
DHCD’s Spring/Summer 2026 competitive LIHTC table lists a 44-unit acquisition/rehab at 11 Jowite Street sponsored by Pax Development, with $1.32 million in 9% credits inside a statewide round the governor pegged at $17.6 million and 555 affordable units.
The Oct. 1 Maryland Innovation Summit unveiled a June–July survey of nearly 300 senior decision-makers: 91% report some AI use, mostly basic tools, while 64% plan to have existing staff do more with AI rather than hire and only 4% expect headcount cuts.
County Economic Development and Tourism’s Sept. 24 notice sets the statewide week for Sept. 28–Oct. 2 and a Talbot Works Together coffee Thursday, Oct. 1, 7:30–9:30 a.m. in Easton.
Mid-Shore Regional Council lists a Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) session for Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026, at noon at the Talbot County Library in Easton. Contact 410-770-4798 or info[at]midshore.org.
Sale is Saturday, Sept. 26, 9 a.m. to noon at 300 Oxford Road; free admission. Donations accepted Friday, 8 a.m. to noon.
Check-in is 9 a.m. and the scramble starts at 10 a.m. at The Point at Pintail in Queenstown. Teams of four are $500; individuals $150. Proceeds benefit the Talbot Chamber Foundation.
Engage Easton’s residential inventory posts a June 9, 2026 Planning and Zoning major-projects ledger — nine named jobs totaling 837 units, with 106 built or permitted and 13% overall complete.
Engage Easton’s published commercial, institutional, and industrial inventory shows no data-center applicant; Maryland’s recent data-center air permit example remains Frederick, not Talbot.
Planning Commission gave a unanimous favorable recommendation after a March 26 public hearing and April 16 resolution vote; Town Council public hearing and adoption remain on the active timeline.
Engage Easton inventories Planning Commission–approved commercial, institutional, and industrial jobs over 5,000 square feet of gross floor area — or staff-referred — through site plan, building permit, or construction.
Aug. 7 CivicAlert opens a Transportation and Safety Survey, pin map, and photo uploads for street redesign; Planning kickoff ran Aug. 20 with travel forecasts through 2050.
Engage Easton posts Plan A and Plan B unit ranges for the ~12.5-acre UMMS Shore Medical Center site after an April charrette of about 70 people; Planning Commission review still ahead.
Delmarva Warriors host USA Warriors Ice Hockey in Easton; Healthy Talbot lists a Sept. 11 honor night with proceeds directed to 9/11 Day community service.
Sep. 1 town alert asks residents and visitors about trails, courts, splash pads, and whether Easton needs more parks; feedback feeds the upcoming Parks and Recreation Annual Plan.
Engage Easton page: town must amend Article X so accessory dwelling units can be permitted where single-family homes are allowed; ZoneCo flags owner-occupancy and parking rules as compliance gaps.
Sept. 9 agenda at 100 W. Dover St. flags a Nov. 4 make-up date and April 29 Business Appreciation Summit; EDC sits Sept. 10 at 8 a.m.
SB427/HB1595 would have created a special data-center personal-property subclass; it was not enacted.
Follow the permit. Sept. 8’s Community Reinvestment and Repair Fund (CRRF) hearing and Resolution 395 public comment ran the same night.
County schedule effective July 1, 2025, posts residential totals inside and outside municipalities and non-residential rates per square foot.
Eastern Shore native starts Aug. 31; Strategic Plan guides BRE, entrepreneurship, workforce, investment, and the visitor economy.
Bluepoint Living's deal for the UM Shore Medical Center site lands as Easton writes the zoning for its largest redevelopment parcel.
Five awards land in Easton, including $500,000 for 117 units at Easton Crossing on the former Perdue industrial site.
Vincent Magnini's Institute for Service Research report puts non-resident spending at $446.29 a head — the clearest measure of outside money into Easton retail before winter.
Talbot Street fills because the product is real; 2025 economic-development sessions already named the bottleneck as housing, not branding.
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