Folly Beach Holiday Inn going ‘condotel’ By Shannon Cavanaugh Developers and realtors remain tight-lipped about the details and purchase price, but sources confirm the deal to sell the 132-room, oceanfront Holiday Inn on Folly Beach is almost complete.
Oceanfront hotels follow trend By Shannon Cavanaugh Mention the word “condo” and some tourists want to pack their bags and run away to another destination. That is exactly what Jeff and Sue Harmon did. The couple used to visit Myrtle Beach but now drive south to Charleston two or three times a year to vacation.
SCANA and Santee Cooper to study joint nuclear venture By Shelia Watson Rival utility companies SCANA, owner of South Carolina Electric & Gas Co., and Santee Cooper have announced they will study the possibility of constructing a new nuclear generation facility to meet growing electricity needs.
Take ‘middle path’ to universal health care By Bill Settlemyer Two columns ago, I wrote about Toyota’s decision to locate a new plant in Canada, a decision driven partly by the fact that health care in that country is provided by the government.
Creating jobs, raising income levels must be top priorities By Bobby Harrell Our state has received a wake up call. When Standard & Poor’s recently downgraded South Carolina’s bond rating from the highest AAA level to AA+, it pointed to the state’s sluggish growth and higher than average unemployment rate.
Watson Hill development proposal still in tug-of-war By Rachel Pleasant The latest legal step in the story of the Watson Hill development and the pivotal piece of land dubbed the Barry Tract was made last month when the town of Summerville responded to a lawsuit filed by the city of North Charleston.
Sheep Island project to herd 13,000 homes on 4,500 acres By Matthew French Crescent Resources, the real estate arm of Charlotte, N.C.-based Duke Power, late last month filed an application to rezone about 4,500 acres in Berkeley County for a proposed 13,000-unit housing development, one of the largest residential communities ever proposed in the county.
Awards can help businesses catch ‘sustainable’ fever By Dennis Quick The Sustainable Charleston Awards will be held Sept. 20 at the Charleston Riverview Hotel. Now in their second year, the awards honor businesses that have shown excellence in energy efficiency, waste/emission reduction, workplace environment and other categories healthful to employees and the environment.
King and Calhoun corner project faces opposition By Rachel Pleasant A group of developers looking to overhaul a key corner at the intersection of King and Calhoun streets will go before the Charleston City Council later this month but will do so with confidence after gaining approval from the city’s planning commission in August.
Union, company mired in cement workers’ strike By Matthew French Union workers striking at the Giant Cement Co. in Harleyville say they will continue to picket the company until they get a fair contract, according to United Steel Workers Local 216 president David Stepp.
Cast out multiple advertising lines to reel in the big catches By Elizabeth Boineau On a hot summer Sunday a few weeks back, having fully planned to write an article for this esteemed publication, I found myself instead motoring pre-dawn out of the harbor on a sizeable yacht aiming for the blue waters of the Gulf Stream.
RV enthusiasts undaunted by skyrocketing gas prices By Rachel Pleasant Gas prices reached record highs in mid-August, creating headaches for consumers and pangs of discomfort for the makers and sellers of gas-guzzling recreational vehicles.
New SUV drives onto Lowcountry auto-sales scene By Rachel Pleasant Cross Lander, a Romanian-built SUV lauded for its solid-steel body and affordable price, will make its Lowcountry debut next month.
As gas prices soar, so do sales of Hybrid autos By Matthew French When Toyota first debuted the Prius hybrid gas/electric automobile in 2000, it was hailed by a few environmentalists as the wave of the future. The rest of the country drove along its merry way in ever-larger sport utility vehicles.
Five plead not guilty in real estate conspiracy By Rachel Pleasant Five suspects facing charges that they ran an elaborate real estate scheme and pocketed thousands of dollars were arraigned late last month. All five pleaded not guilty.
Maybank Highway serves up a sizzling restaurant scene By Dennis Quick Athens Greek Restaurant is opening there in early September. So is the Pour House, a West Ashley live-music bar. Locklear’s Lowcountry Grill moved there earlier this year. Cynthia’s Restaurant and The Mustard Seed are thriving there.
Collecting online sales tax can be a tangled, complex web By Matthew French Starting Oct. 1, South Carolina retailers who sell goods online to out-of-state customers will have the option of charging sales tax as part of a growing effort for states to collect billions of dollars they say they are losing through e-commerce.
Broadband bill relaxes telecommunications rules By Holly Fisher When the Telecommunications Act was revised in 1996, e-mail was relatively new, cell phones weren’t in everyone’s pocket and Internet access was dial up.
People in the News Richie Swann joined Ross Printing as an account executive. A graduate of Clemson University, Swann interned with Sealed Air Corp.’s Cryovac Food Packaging Division where he was graphics production specialist.
Collect sales gems to be rich in marketing strategies By Jeffrey Gitomer Every salesperson is looking for a gem. A sales gem is one rough-cut diamond that turns a lost sale into a found sale—one emerald that can change a customer’s response from “no” to “yes.”
Calendar • SEPT. 6: Charleston School of Law lecture series. Noon. Topic: The Supreme Court and professionalism. Speakers: S.C. Supreme Court Associate Justice Costa Pleicones. Information: 329-1000.
Don’t let the ‘Imposter Syndrome’ sabotage your accomplishments By Wayne Outlaw Not long ago at a workshop with CEOs, one high performing individual admitted that he had purposely gotten himself fired from the top job at his previous company not long after successfully engineering its sale to a Fortune 500 company.
Accolades Mount Pleasant-based Skamper Industries’ Skamper-Ramp water rescue device for pets was featured on ABC’s Good Morning America on June 7 as one of the top new pet safety products in a segment hosted by nationally renowned veterinarian and author Dr. Marty Becker. In April, Skamper-Ramp was selected as one of the “hot new pet products of 2005” by Dr. Debbye Turner, DVM for CBS’ The Early Show.
Appointments The Education Foundation announced its board of directors and executive committee for the 2005-2006 fiscal year, which began on July 1.
Photo Finish Rising eighth-grade students in Trident Technical College’s Manufacturing Summer Camp visited the American LaFrance manufacturing facility in Ladson on July 14 where they had the chance to watch as fire trucks and other emergency vehicles were assembled. During the camp held at TTC July 11-15, students also toured Alcoa Mt. Holly, Cummins Mercruiser Diesel and Holset Turbocharger facilities. The annual camp is sponsored by TTC, the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce, the Lowcountry Manufacturers Council and the South Carolina Manufacturing Extension Partnership.
News Briefs Blackbaud Inc., a provider of software and related services designed specifically for nonprofit organizations, recently released the second wave of results from its second Annual State of the Nonprofit Industry survey, which focuses on the issues and challenges facing the nonprofit sector as a whole.
