8 things to know: $45M Baltimore housing project breaks ground

Good morning, Baltimore! Spring has sprung, bringing with it flowers, rain, lanternflies and, of course, plenty of groundbreakings. So it's fitting that I got an email to the main Baltimore Business Journal inbox yesterday from a company selling ceremonial groundbreaking shovels in both gold and silver. That company would have been helpful to a certain school system I covered early in my career, which had to scramble when officials decided at the last second to hold a groundbreaking ceremony for…