BRAC grazes Charleston By Matthew French Compared to 10 years ago, the Charleston region largely dodged the BRAC bullet. When the dust settled, Charleston, and all of South Carolina, emerged largely intact.
Mayor Riley’s latest annexation coup outfoxes North Charleston By Rachel Pleasant Call it the Riley Factor. Under Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr., first elected to the office in 1975, Charleston has annexed time and again, increasing its total size from 16.7 square miles when Riley took office to 104 square miles today.
EADS execs probe Charleston area as potential plant site By Matthew French Two weeks after the Charleston area was selected as one of four finalists for a tanker refueling aircraft manufacturing facility, the company hoping to build that aircraft for the Air Force paid a visit to the site.
Are blogs the cure for what ails your marketing strategy? By Bob Bouyea I admit I am not a blogger. I have never blogged, and I do not understand the attraction of the blog. I have read a few blogs to try and understand what people get out of it.
Family-owned businesses face unique challenges By Rachel Pleasant Home is a refuge after a bad day at the office. The office is often a welcome escape from the family. That is, unless your business partner is your husband, your boss is your dad, or your assistant is your sister.
Bus Rapid Transit an alternative worth exploring By Dennis Quick Recently, while stuck (for the umpteenth time) in a traffic jam on the old Cooper River bridge, I dreamed of a revitalized Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority.
Vetoes key to restoring fiscal discipline, eliminating deficit By Gov. Mark Sanford There was much fanfare last year about pigs, pork barrel spending and vetoes, yet lost in the commotion was what the vetoes were all about—the constitutional requirement of a balanced budget in South Carolina. Those vetoes were not about individual spending items but rather about using the only tool left to extinguish the remaining $16 million of a $155 million unconstitutional deficit.
Use interactive advertising to increase exposure, revenue By David L. Rawle The Small Business Television Network asked nearly 21,000 small-business owners, “Where will you spend the majority of your advertising dollars in 2005?” The no. 1 response was the Internet.
C of C’s $10 million Beatty Center nears completion By Rachel Pleasant The College of Charleston’s Beatty Center awaits its finishing touches. The new 48,000-square-foot building at 5 Liberty Street will be dedicated June 30.
Sanford must watch his back in upcoming election By Andy Brack It has not been a good May for Gov. Mark Sanford. Sanford’s signature legislative priority, a school voucher plan clothed as a tax credit, died a painful death in the S.C. House without a peep of debate on the floor.
New Freshfields Village attracting retailers, shoppers By Dennis Quick Freshfields Village, a 60-acre retail development on Johns Island near the entrances to Kiawah and Seabrook islands, held its grand opening during Memorial Day weekend.
Panel fabrication plant ‘brings green to the market’ By Holly Fisher A desire to promote green building projects led Verdi Architecture to expand its firm into development and construction. Now it is entering the fabrication business, opening a plant in the Summerville area.
Some retailers struggle applying half-cent sales tax By Matthew French When Charleston County voters approved a one-half cent sales tax increase in November, most applauded the move, arguing that the added revenue could offset the cost of road and infrastructure improvements throughout the county.
Choose your first career with consideration, passion By Barbara Poole By the time this column is published, I will have watched my only child graduate from the College of Charleston. Like most parents, I have this sensation that it has been about 20 minutes since he was an infant, and the notion that he would someday be preparing to make his way in the world always seemed like some futuristic event. Now that future is sitting squarely on our front door step.
Study: Local funeral homes’ prices for basic services vary widely By Rachel Pleasant Planning a funeral is a confusing task. Emotions are raw. Time is short. Decisions are many. For help navigating the myriad options that come with such an event, grief-stricken families turn to funeral homes, expecting competitive prices. A recent study of Charleston area funeral homes suggests that may not always be the case. The study, conducted by the Funeral Consumers Alliance of South Carolina, found wide price variations among 17 funeral homes for services that should…
Immigration law helps businesses hire foreign workers By Dennis Quick The U.S. Department of Labor Statistics projects that, by 2012, the nation’s economy will need more than 980,000 computer software engineers. However, Americans are not filling the heavy demand for these and other highly skilled workers, experts say.
Protect your assets: Craft a non-compete that won’t let you down By J. Walker Coleman IV and Ellis R. Lesemann When the economy was in the tank a few years ago, workplace columnists wrote how employers needed to take care of their good employees in bad times or risk losing them when the job market improved.
Belle Hall Parkway sees office construction boom By Dennis Quick At the beginning of Belle Hall Parkway, off Long Point Road in Mount Pleasant, three class “A” office developments are being built within a stone’s throw of one another. As office parks go, the developments are not huge, but the spate of construction along that segment of road reflects the Lowcountry’s robust commercial real estate market.
Mount Pleasant grows by 27 acres, to add park By Shannon Cavanaugh Get ready to cast your fishing line in the Cooper River from a new waterfront public pier and park. The town of Mount Pleasant landed 27 acres from the South Carolina Department of Transportation. The weigh-in for Mount Pleasant taxpayers: free use of land valued at more than $20 million and free access to water.
News Briefs Sid Harvey Industries Inc. announced the relocation of its manufacturing and remanufacturing facility from Garden City, N.Y., to Georgetown County.
Take care to encourage other’s dreams, goals A child announces to his family that he will one day be an astronaut. A recent graduate tells friends that she will be leaving for New York or Hollywood to pursue her dreams of becoming a professional actor. A co-worker tells you he wants to learn a foreign language and travel to a country where it is officially spoken.
Getting the goods on GERD, identify the red flags If you order pizza with a side of Tums or chase coffee with Maalox, you may think you know about GERD. But GERD is not heartburn; it is gastroesophageal reflux disease, the abnormal backflow of stomach acids into the esophagus.
Calendar • JUNE 1: Edge of America Chapter of Business Networking International meeting. 1-2:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Riverview on Savannah Hwy. Open to those interested in growing their business. Meetings are each Wednesday. Information: Barbara Fox, 795-1100.
People in the News Kenneth M. Pickens was promoted to senior vice president and senior commercial lender at Tidelands Bank. He has 23 years of banking experience.
Appointments Daniel J. Body of Charleston joined Charleston Southern University’s board of visitors’ executive council. Body, the chief executive officer for Palmetto Lowcountry Behavioral Health, will serve on the board until Dec. 31, 2007.
Giving Back Bartlett Tree Experts recently cleared a Habitat for Humanity lot in North Charleston for a Collegiate Challenge build. The new home is for Anita Antionette and her daughter, Sharree.
Photo Finish LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS DONATE TREE: The South Carolina American Society of Landscape Architects celebrated Landscape Architecture Month in the Charleston area by planting a forest pansy redbud in the newly restored Hampton Park. Pictured, from left, are Tyler Bowers and Glen Gardner, both executive committee members; David Lycke, trustee; Jessica McClung, society president; and Bill Eubanks. MISS CHARLESTON VISITS ROTARY CLUB: The reigning Miss Charleston, Clark Sarullo, visited the Rotary Club of St. Andrews. Sarullo is…
Accolades & More The RE/MAX International Convention awarded Realtor Jeff Bowers the RE/MAX Lifetime Achievement Award. Bowers has been a broker associate with RE/MAX Professional Realty since 1990. The award is presented to associates who have been affiliated with the organization for at least seven years and have helped 1,000 or more families in buying or selling real estate.
