It's one of the bright sides of a struggling economy, entrepreneurs creating new businesses. With credit tight, new business owners in Baltimore are looking beyond the confines of a traditional brick-and-mortar business to other opportunities that require less capital.
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"Street vendors like the Quints are popping up on new corners, with city-inspected stainless steel food carts in tow. At the end of last year and into this summer, applications for street vending licenses shot up, said Alvin Gillard, Baltimore's vendor board chairman. The city still hasn't caught up with processing all of them.
"We see anywhere from 20 to 30 applications each meeting," Gillard said of the board's bi-monthly review of vending hopefuls. "More folks have turned to street vending as a means to survive."
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