Unable to get Flow emulator running

I am attempting to run a Flow emulator on my MacBook air in accordance with this article: How to Create NFTs Like NBA Top Shot With Flow and IPFS | by Justin Hunter | Pinata | Medium

The smart contract runs perfectly well on the playground but when I try to run:

flow project start-emulator

It gets stuck and never starts:

INFO[0000] :gear: Using service account 0xf8d6e0586b0a20c7 serviceAddress=f8d6e0586b0a20c7 serviceHashAlgo=SHA3_256 servicePrivKey=5739bf616adafdb38493644b2bfc6dac30d74a60f481e03812ce9c36ac686d5c servicePubKey=bb4fae0c55e82aabcaae1825ee5c15079e29aec7f19dfddc955a258d70e9daf5bd940d29c2d9316ad8777eacd179e8a96611653481be69ed478cdc276fdb7105 serviceSigAlgo=ECDSA_P256
INFO[0000] :scroll: Flow contracts FlowFees=0xe5a8b7f23e8b548f FlowServiceAccount=0xf8d6e0586b0a20c7 FlowStorageFees=0xf8d6e0586b0a20c7 FlowToken=0x0ae53cb6e3f42a79 FungibleToken=0xee82856bf20e2aa6
INFO[0000] :seedling: Starting gRPC server on port 3569 port=3569
INFO[0000] :seedling: Starting HTTP server on port 8080 port=8080

I would appreciate any advice

Have you had any success in fixing this? Iā€™m having the same exact problem.

The log states that emulator has been started and is listening on stated ports.
What is that you expect?