Meet our tenants

 
 
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MERGE - creative spaces - transformative environment

MERGE is a dynamic and inspiring hub that brings together a diverse community to foster creativity, growth, and entrepreneurship. MERGE memberships provides flexible workspaces, conference rooms and unique common areas to stimulate collaborative conversations with like-minded entrepreneurs. Located in the newly restored Phillips Packing House, MERGE provides its members the opportunity to transform their ideas into successful companies.

To take a tour and learn more about becoming a MERGE member, visit our MERGE site here, or reach out to our leasing team at thepackinghouse@crossstpartners.com

MERGE tenants include:

Blacks of the Chesapeake, a foundation that documents and educates the public about the history and culture of African Americans who have worked in the maritime and seafood industries in the Chesapeake Bay region

Moving Dorchester Forward, a collective impact organization committed to transforming Dorchester County into a thriving community for all through economic development, education, and community engagement

 
 

Eastern Shore Crisis Response Services, an Affiliated Sante Group, which has a mobile crisis team to help with mental health or substance use crises


First Class Video and Electronics, Locally owned and operated, First Class Video and Electronics is a Veteran owned small business  leading in cellphone and computer service in the community for over 10 years. Even though our tenure is relatively short, over those past 10 years we've built a strong and trusted reputation with our customers allowing us to be a cornerstone in the community for Cellphone and Computer Services.


Blue Oyster brings a revolutionary, 21st-century approach to scaling the Chesapeake’s oyster aquaculture industry, enlisting the vast watershed’s communities and businesses to help improve the environment and storied culture of the country’s largest estuary. Blue Oyster aima to involve all of the Chesapeake Bay watershed’s businesses, municipalities, and stakeholders in revitalization of this crucial ecosystem and the culture that surrounds it. As the oyster industry thrives again, so, too, will the working waterfront communities that have made up the heart and soul of the Bay’s culture for decades.

 
 

Four eleven kitchen

The Four Eleven Kitchen is a shared-use commercial kitchen designed to empower, elevate and establish a thriving food entrepreneur community in Cambridge, Maryland and the greater Mid-shore Region. Powered by Beat The Rush Delivery (BTR), Four Eleven Kitchen will develop and cultivate a sustainable food economy within the local marketplace. It is our mission to increase access to consistent and healthy food resources.

The Cambridge community has endured many transitions in the food marketplace. It is our vision to support the local food economy by providing a commercial kitchen space that not only welcomes diverse food concepts and entrepreneurs but also provides an easy to work in environment, along with consistent and direct access to fresh local food for the community.

Are you a future or existing FOODPRENUER in need of a shared use kitchen - learn more here!

 
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Blue Oyster environmental

Blue Oyster brings a revolutionary, 21st-century approach to scaling the Chesapeake’s oyster aquaculture industry, enlisting the vast watershed’s communities and businesses to help improve the environment and storied culture of the country’s largest estuary.

The oyster industry is responding in powerful ways through oyster aquaculture. Oysters are incredibly helpful to the health of the Bay — and remarkably efficient and effective at filtering water. Each oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water per day, consuming phytoplankton, and removing nitrogen and phosphorous (nutrients) from the water. Nitrogen and phosphorus are assimilated in the meat and shell of the oyster by consuming phytoplankton and particulate organic matter. Once oysters are harvested, the nutrients are permanently removed from the water. And a time when food production is straining our environment in so many ways, oyster aquaculture creates a sustainable and environmentally beneficial pathway of creating protein for consumption.

The trend is positive: The rate of oyster farming in Maryland’s section of the Chesapeake Bay has grown 20 times over since 2012, according to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.

 

MARYLAND department of housing and
community development

The Maryland D​epartment of Housing and Community Development is proud to be at the forefront in implementing housing policy that promotes and preserves home ownership and creating innovative community development initiatives to meet the challenges of a growing Maryland.

Through the Maryland Mortgage Program, the department has empowered thousands of Maryland families to realize the American dream of home ownership.

The department’s rental housing programs increase and preserve the supply of affordable housing and provide good choices for working families, senior citizens, and individuals with special needs.

Community development and revitalization programs like Neighborhood BusinessWorks, Community Legacy, and Main Street Maryland help our cities and towns remain rich, vibrant communities.

The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development remains committed to building on our past successes to maintain our reputation as an innovator in community revitalization and a national leader in housing finance.