House Hunters By Kathleen Dayton As some of its older neighborhoods continue to refresh themselves after decades of decline, North Charleston is suddenly having to deal with some of the same issues the city of Charleston faces when it comes to new construction and renovation.
Bioscience’s risk makes difficult staff recruitment By Dan McCue When it comes to doing the spadework for the biosciences business cluster, the fourth of five clusters consultant AngelouEconomics identified as vital to the Charleston region’s future, economic developers confront a unique dilemma.
A good start toward solving work force ills By Dennis Quick I attended the Trident Workforce Investment Board’s roundtable discussion last month at the Trident One Stop Career Center in North Charleston. The topic was—you guessed it—our work force and how to improve it.
Baby boomers boosting anti-aging ‘skin trade’ By Dennis Quick Even though their AARP memberships remind them of the passage of time, baby boomers are not surrendering to old age; they’re fighting it.
New office building ready to house national tenants By Dennis Quick Ashley Overlook, the new 105,800-square-foot North Charleston office building adjacent to Interstate 526 and the Ashley River, is the kind of spacious, class “A” facility needed to attract national corporate headquarters to the Lowcounty.
Political blogs have some sizzle and fizzle By Andy Brack Three years ago, as political blogs seemed to be picking up steam, there was a lot of talk about how they would change the political landscape by creating online communities of new political participants.
To move South Carolina forward, bring on the innovators! By Bill Settlemyer In the midst of turmoil in the Middle East and climbing oil prices, and with summer heat waves around the world playing out like a global warming “preview of coming attractions,” it can be difficult to stay focused on the things we can do here in South Carolina to make our economy stronger and the lives of our people better.
Cummins opens plant in Palmetto Commerce Park By Dan McCue Ten months to the day after breaking ground on a new $13 million manufacturing facility in North Charleston’s Palmetto Commerce Park, Cummins Turbo Technologies officials celebrated its grand opening July 21 with talk of greatly expanding the facility in the not-so-distant future.
Charles Towne Landing says goodbye to 1970s By Kathleen Dayton Gone is the bland, square parking lot, the abstract Pavilion that once housed a theater, cafe and gift shop, and the geodesic dome, a structure resembling a cross between a spacecraft and an igloo where special events were hosted.
Charlestonian adds flavor to Just Fresh restaurant chain By Dennis Quick When a group of Charlotte, N.C.-based investors recently acquired the Just Fresh Bakery Café and Market restaurant chain, they picked Charlestonian Dana Sinkler Jr. to head it.
Accreditation dispensed to S.C. College of Pharmacy By Shannon Cavanaugh Erin Blackmon has finished the paperwork to enroll as a first-year student in the doctor of pharmacy program at the South Carolina College of Pharmacy.
Honigman the link between CaroLinks, security firm By Dan McCue Of the individuals CaroLinks has identified as members of its corporate advisory board, the one with the most varied background appears to be Stephen Honigman, a partner in the New York-based law firm Fox Horan & Camerini LLP.
CaroLinks seen as getting the Carolinas moving again By Dan McCue The two aspects of the CaroLinks plan Howard “Humpy” Wheeler loves most are the company’s plan to keep trains and barges moving cargo inland 24 hours a day and that all that activity will keep people working, he said.
Protecting Charleston’s brand key for new chamber chair By Dan McCue Thomas Hood doesn’t hide his enthusiasm for Charleston. In fact, over the course of a recent 90-minute conversation, the newly elected chairman of the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce even embraced the region’s challenges.
Hood: Culture of civility aids chamber's clustering effort By Dan McCue Thomas Hood, the newly elected chairman of the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce, said he believes Charleston’s longstanding culture of civility has been a major factor in bringing people together behind the economic cluster effort.
State seeking venture capitalists to fund cluster growth By Dan McCue The South Carolina Venture Capital Authority has a readily understandable goal for the remainder of the year: identify promising potential investors with “wallets full of money” to help fire the state’s various economic engines.
New Young Professionals group to hold first event Aug. 31 By Dan McCue If Charleston is going to retain its young professionals, more has to be done to help them network and become part of major community efforts, like implementing the recommendations of the AngelouEconomics report, accord to Tom Hood, chairman of the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce.
Trident Health System part of world’s largest buyout By Dennis Quick The announcement that a group of private investors will pay $33 billion for HCA Inc., owner of North Charleston-based Trident Health System and more than 260 other hospitals, set off alarm bells in the high-stakes world of mergers and acquisitions.
FORSight applies high-tech to land stewardship By Shelia Watson Greg Day, vice president of geographic information systems and data services for FORSight Resources, describes the company as being at the intersection of old and new.
Towne Centre paves over problem to add parking By Kathleen Dayton Shoppers, take heart. Mount Pleasant’s Towne Centre recently added more than 100 new parking spaces to help assuage demand at the shopping complex.
Nanoscreen named Innovator of the Year By Holly Fisher and Shannon Cavanaugh Each year, the Charleston Regional Business Journal honors the 10 top innovators in the Lowcountry, based on factors such as the originality of the new product, the impact it will have on the field, how challenging it was to implement and the value—monetarily or in improvements to things such as health or quality of life—the product will produce. This year’s Innovator of the Year, Nanoscreen LLC, excelled in all those categories.
Bioscience will need manufacturing work force By Dan McCue Daniel Dechert, president and CEO of NanoScreen LLC of North Charleston, considers his company a “toolbox” for other players in the industry.
State taking steps to make dangerous job a little safer By Kathleen Dayton On July 21, 45-year-old construction worker Gregorio Mendoza fell 15 feet from a roof he was working on at an Isle of Palms home. Mendoza died in the hospital two days later.
Conference provides peek at China’s growing pains By Shelia Watson A recent trip to Qingdao, China, to attend an education conference gave Arnold Hite the opportunity to observe China’s economic development firsthand.
Island inspiration By Nadia Shamsedin What makes for a successful real estate development company? Matt Sloan, chief operating officer of the Daniel Island Co., has an answer.
Tapping resources By Shannon Cavanaugh The air was hot and dusty when Leo Russo, community development director for Mount Pleasant Waterworks, stopped by Chris Snyder’s home in the small, unincorporated town of McClellanville.
Maximizing WOMA to boost customer communication By Bruce Murdy WOMA, or word-of-mouth advertising, is getting significant buzz in the marketing industry as of late. And yet, for many marketers, word-of-mouth advertising is as old as… Well, it’s been around for a long, long time.
Think about what the customer wants, and deliver By Jeffrey Gitomer You have opportunities to think every day. The big questions are: How do you do it? And, once you’ve arrived at your thought, or your idea, or your response, how do you deliver it?
People in the News Life Cycle Engineering promoted Mark Petersen-Overton to senior vice president of its engineering services group and Bill Guin to senior vice president of its applied technologies group.
Accolades & More The Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce received three Awards for Communications Excellence during the American Chamber of Commerce Executives’ 22nd annual convention.
Giving Back Kreber golf tournament raises $40,000 for leukemia research
The 10th annual Monica Kreber Golf Tournament was held at Seabrook Island’s Ocean Winds Golf Course in July, raising approximately $40,000 for leukemia research at the Medical University of South Carolina’s Charles P. Darby Children’s Research Institute.
Calendar AUG. 15: The Entrepreneur’s Source meeting. 6-8 p.m. at the Small Business Development Center, 5900 Core Drive, North Charleston. Topic: Be your own boss: franchising and business ownership career options.
Photo Finish JUST FRESH CHEF WINS GRILLING COOKOFF
Victor Colbert, restaurant supervisor at Just Fresh’s Belle Hall Shopping Center location, recently won the “Battle of PAMazing Grillers" at Boone Hall Plantation.
