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The Greenville-Spartanburg office market scratched bottom of the pandemic-created trough in the last quarter of 2021, and for the first time since early 2020, vacancies are beginning to drop. Pretty Vacant Across the entire market,... Read More

Last year, Easley's Alice Manufacturing Co. began to pull away from its roots in textiles when it entered the innovation economy investment space as Alice Co. This year, one former textile facility owned by the... Read More

Greenidge Generation Holdings purchased 175 acres at Spartanburg’s former LSC Communications site in December as part of the cryptocurrency mining company’s Southeastern expansion. The $15 million sale launc... Read More

Emus, a battery management system manufacturing company that serves the lithium-ion industry has moved its first U.S. office to Greenville’s Merovan Center. The sales and customer support center at 1200 Woodruff Road, Suite A3 w... Read More

Laurens Electric Cooperative sponsors Washington and Columbia Youth Tour  Laurens’ electric provider is sponsoring an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C., for three high school juniors across its service area from Jun... Read More

Thousands of South Carolina businesses readied themselves for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s large employer testing and vaccine mandate before the U.S. Supreme Court shut it down Jan. 13. However, the omicro... Read More

As 2022 rolls in, the pilgrimage to the hills continues.  Cliffs Realty continued to break records in sales during 2021, bringing in $247 million through a 99% increase in transactions since the beginning of the pandemic.  ... Read More

It had never crossed the mind of Jordon Construction Co.’s founder that he might find himself on CBS News’ 60 Minutes. He’s been too busy. But in November, producers of the show requested James Jordon’s experti... Read More

Between a surge in cases of the omicron COVID-19 variant and a spate of disruptive winter weather, the Piedmont-based The Blood Connection projects it will receive only 60% of the blood its partner hospitals need over the next month.&nbs... Read More

Another year passed. Cities and statehouses are still beset with pandemic relief challenges. Still, the Upstate Chamber Coalition celebrated some major victories in 2021, from COVID-19 liability relief for businesses to $200... Read More

Kostwein Corp., a high-tech machine manufacturer, will establish its first U.S. operations in Greenville County through a $8.5 million investment slated to create 95 new jobs.  Founded in 1921 and headquartered in Austria, Kostwe... Read More

The Spartanburg manufacturing hub saw a 20% increase in the year-over-year production of all BMW X vehicles last year.   That may seem obvious given the historic pause in production due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020,... Read More

  Tindall Corp. will divide its operations into two distinct businesses: Tindall Building Systems Group and Tindall Infrastructure Group. The concrete manufacturer said the change will expand the company’s opportuni... Read More

Mobile Communications America has continued its march along the East Coast and beyond with the acquisition of four communication providers in Texas, Georgia, Virginia and Michigan. The slew of purchases follows the Spartanburg-ba... Read More

Furman University will break ground in February on a $70 million project to build a new residence hall and update four others in the South Housing complex for first-year students.  The project will replace the current Blackwell H... Read More

Clemson University physicist Apparao Rao and a team of researchers have been developing a new generation of potassium-ion battery technology to serve as a backup resource for the nation’s power grid. Nascent potassium-ion b... Read More

Shamrock Technologies Inc., an 80-year old wax additive processer and developer based in New Jersey, will establish operations in Grey Court through a $19.4 million investment. “Shamrock Technologies is excited to be making our ... Read More

The word “ghost kitchen” may have first been published in 2015, according to Merriam Webster, but it made its way into most vocabularies in 2020. Now, Spartanburg franchise giant Denny’s Corp. is following in the foo... Read More

Upstate Warrior Solution is building out plans for a veterans’ service center thanks to a series of local donations. The nonprofit initiated plans for the project following a $500,000 donation from the Rupert Huse Charitable Fun... Read More

AZZ Inc., a provider of galvanizing, metal-coating and welding solutions, as well as specialty electrical equipment, has agreed to aquire all assets of Blacksburg-based Steel Creek Galvanizing Co. Steel Creek is currently housed ... Read More

Jordon Construction Co. Founder James Jordon may be a recognizable face around Greenville with his company’s work on Camperdown’s Deca Apartments, Unity Park’s Visitors Center or the new Carroll A. Campbell Jr. U.S. Cou... Read More

About 4,500 Cherokee County homes and small businesses lacked access to internet service last year, but change is in the air — or rather, the ground. The county and Charter Communications have launched a two-year publi... Read More

Greenville-based Venture South invested more than $10 million in 30 early-stage companies across the Southeast in 2021. Eleven of those investments were new to the Venture South portfolio including South Carolina’s AmplifiedAg a... Read More

SCBIO will host a hybrid in-person and virtual conference in Charleston Feb. 22-24 featuring a presentation from Food and Drug Administration executive Valerie Jensen and the unveiling of South Carolina’s life science economic... Read More

When Greenidge Generation Holdings wanted to expand operations beyond its native New York into Texas and South Carolina, it doubled its original order of 22,500 Bitmain miners, computational hardware that puts new cryptocurrency into cir... Read More

Poogan’s Southern Kitchen, an offshoot of Charleston’s Poogan’s Porch, has signed on to occupy a 6,500-square-foot space at Mauldin’s Bridgeway Station. The location, featuring a 500-square-foot outdoor dining ... Read More

Just before Christmas, Greenville-based Premier Medical Laboratory verified 10 COVID-19 tests to be a few of the first confirmed omicron samples in the Upstate. Since then, COVID-19 tests run through the lab have leapt 250% in a jump ... Read More

A 263,490-square-foot Easley property known in the area for its department stores and national brand names will be Greenberg Gibbon’s first South Carolina investment. The Maryland based investors recently purchased the Town... Read More

Greenville-based nonprofit lender CommunityWorks received $525,000 through the U.S. Treasury Department’s CDFI Fund to support financing for statewide affordable housing. The bank, one of 422 organizations in the country to rece... Read More

Greenville nonprofit Sustaining Way was awarded a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Grant last week along with 99 other recipients across the country. Sustaining Way is an interfaith organization that upgrades underutilized propert... Read More

A Moore restaurant that grew out of Spartanburg’s peach industry will establish new roots — but not too far away. In addition to Cribbs Kitchen’s location in downtown Spartanburg, owners William Cribb and Raj Pa... Read More

When SC Biz News called Walter Sabrin, he was in Colombia training recruiters for Quality Business Solutions partner VensureHR. That’s right: Colombia, not Columbia. “One thing that COVID did do, is it kind of educated ... Read More

The Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport is preparing for a flush of holiday traffic despite omicron fears. The airport expects between 40,000 and 45,000 passengers to arrive and depart this week. That’s about ... Read More

Softbox has garnered worldwide attention over the past year with Pfizer’s use of the company’s cold chain ULT shipping boxes, made in Greenville, to transport ultra-chilled COVID-19 vaccines across the country. O... Read More

Six days after the Medical University of South Carolina identified the first three cases of the omicron COVID-19 variant in the state, Greenville-based Premier Medical Laboratory has confirmed the variant’s presence a... Read More

Christmas tree cultivation is akin to watching a train roll across the prairie and into your town.  You might be able to see what’s coming from a long way off, but there’s not much you can do to stop it, said North Ca... Read More

This story first appeared in the Dec. 13 print edition of GSA Business Report Landowners in Greenville County now have a farmland preservation tool in addition to the Greenville County Historic and Natural Resources Trust reported in ... Read More

The Lockheed Martin Corp. has donated $210,000 to Wreaths Across America, a nonprofit that places wreaths at the grave markers of fallen veterans. “Lockheed Martin proudly supports Wreaths Across America and its missio... Read More

The Greenville Chamber’s Minority Business Accelerator program recently graduated 2021 program participants and named its 2022 class. The Minority Business Accelerator supports and scales high-potential minority-owned firms by p... Read More

The crème of the Tri-County Technical College pre-pharmacy program can now transfer to the Medical University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy to pursue a doctor of pharmacy degree. Ahmad Chaudhry, dean of Tri-County Techn... Read More

Lima One Capital founder John Warren, also a former candidate for S.C. governor, has teamed up with five business leaders to start the $200 million Greenville Bitcoin mining company, Gem Mining. “Over the past 10 months, my part... Read More

If Quest Diagnostic’s logo isn’t on the COVID-19 test packet in the drive-thru at CVS, it could be spotted outside a lab on Greenville’s Roper Mountain Road or at Seneca’s Quick Draws blood test collection site. ... Read More

This story first appeared in the Dec. 13 print edition of the GSA Business Report. Auto companies unable to adjust to the coming tide of change — electrification, autonomy and connectivity — will likely not survive the nex... Read More

Kiyatec, a commercial cancer diagnostics company with ties to Clemson University and Prisma Health, plans to invest $5 million in new offices as the anchor tenant for the city of Greenville’s new Innovation District. Born f... Read More

Proterra plans to invest at least $76 million in a new battery manufacturing plant in Greer for the company’s electric delivery and work trucks, industrial equipment and buses. “Electric vehicle technology is an opportunit... Read More

Blood donated at  The Blood Connection, headquartered in Greenville, may now be en route to those injured by what some accounts regard as the longest-running tornado in U.S. history. Earlier this year, The Blood Connect... Read More

South Carolina’s tech industry is expected to expand by 21% between 2020 and 2030 — but only if the state can grow its hiring level by at least 28.2%, according to a recent report from bipartisan innovation executive&nbs... Read More

Mauldin business leaders gathered in the Georgian halls of the Grand Holland Estate Wednesday night to celebrate the year’s accomplishments and those who helped the community accomplish them. “When I’m asked, how wou... Read More

Fluor Field’s events are back in full-swing with the Greenville Rotary Club’s inaugural Kringle Holiday Village, open on Saturday and Sunday. The European-style holiday market will include artisan and food vendors, a beer ... Read More

U.K.-based electric van manufacturer Arrival Automotive is building a battery module assembly plant to serve its Charlotte and Rock Hill microfactories with an approximate $11.5 million investment. The plant, located on Charlotte&rsqu... Read More

Fountain Inn’s advanced electronic components manufacturer Kyocera AVX has partnered with early-stage venture capital firm Good Growth Capital to complement its existing research and investments in the S.C. medical technology indus... Read More

Transcom's U.S. officials have made their final choice, and a cross-community welcome had something to do with it. “Local government, big government, the business community, the academic community: everyone was there support... Read More

We may not yet have snow in the Upstate this winter and probably won’t have enough to make an igloo this season, but that’s not stopping AC Hotel’s Juniper. The hotel’s rooftop cocktail garden has transformed i... Read More

Property management and development firm NHE Inc. and its partners held a grand opening for Renaissance Place, an affordable housing community for residents age 55 and older. The 57-unit apartment complex, located near Bob Jones Unive... Read More

Greenville-based business investor and management company SLG Investment Holdings LLC. is putting its money down on a local snack brand. Almost 15 years ago, a Greenville mother developed a recipe for a nut-free meal replacement prote... Read More

Duke Energy seeks to diversify the talent pipeline for nuclear engineering through a grant program at South Carolina State University, a historically Black university. The $150,000 grant will be used by the school as a scholarship for... Read More

Charleston-based KOR Medical launched its cannabinoid physical and mental wellness product line across the United States today. Products include sprays, strips and transdermal creams made with cannabidiol, cannabinol and cannabigerol ... Read More

Eleven stories of thousands of windowless bedrooms, complete with TV-monitors designed to emulate natural light — all designed by a 97-year-old billionaire without any architectural experience. If it sounds like a prison from 20... Read More

In March, Kevin Pahl was already thinking about Christmas trees, but this year, instead of buying a fir for his living room, he wanted to sell them. So he enrolled in the Greer Development Corp.’s The Platform at Greer Bootcamp ... Read More

Editor's Note: This story first appeared in the Nov. 15 print edition of the GSA Business Report. Since publication, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans put a block on OSHA vaccine or testing requirements for emplo... Read More

Greenville chiropractor Daniel McCollum pled guilty earlier this month to engaging in conspiracy to pay illegal kickbacks and defrauding health care programs by billing for unnecessary medical services. The plea was entered in U.S. Distr... Read More

Columbia-based RL Solutions LLC, a logistics and transportation company, will invest $1 million in its Greenville facility, creating a slated 27 jobs. “Greenville County congratulates RL Solutions on expanding its base of operat... Read More

A Dorchester County court has ruled unanimously in favor of Greenville-based Michelin North America following a $66 million product liability case born out of a 2017 motorcycle crash. Plaintiffs in the case, Ron and Rose Nash, cl... Read More

Furman University’s Anthony Herrera said he doesn’t want to be cliché, but he believes we’re headed into a new world order. “The pandemic accelerated what was happening, but what it’s done is in a ... Read More

The Draxlmaier Group, a tier one auto supplier, began its first apprenticeship program at its U.S. headquarters in January 2020. As 2021 nears its end, the program is still going strong in Duncan and, with an ongoing talent drought, e... Read More

This story first appeared in the Nov. 15 print edition of GSA Business Report. If Greer Station is the compass rose of the city’s redevelopment plan, Project Homecoming would be its needle. Where the $42 million, 275-family p... Read More

The Riley Institute at Furman University has recognized S.C. Sen. Thomas Alexander, R-Walhalla, and Roland Gardner, CEO of Beaufort-Jasper-Hampton Comprehensive Health Services for their leadership across the state. Alexander wil... Read More

Bon Secours St. Francis has relocated its emergency department to a renovated area five times the size of its previous space. The hospital celebrated the grand opening of the 45,000-square-foot unit Thursday following the completion o... Read More

BMW Manufacturing will expand its Upstate operations with a $100 million logistics center built across from the Spartanburg plant off Interstate 85. Once the nearly 1 million-square-foot logistics hub opens in mid-2022, it will allow ... Read More

This story first appeared in the Nov. 15 print edition of GSA Business Report. The U.S. Commerce Department expected players from across the semiconductor supply chain to put in a word on data gaps and bottle necks by Nov. 8. The j... Read More

At the first S.C. Manufacturing Conference and Expo to go live since 2019, workforce concerns loomed large but they were far from being an elephant in the exhibit hall. “The professionals that we’re churning are top notch ... Read More

Seed money from Hughes Investments Elevate Upstate Grant has helped more than 30 different initiatives launch across the Upstate over the last decade. Today, Ten at the Top added two more to that list at its Celebrating Successes event, ... Read More

A Greenville developer and Spartanburg County will partner to rebuild the former site of Clifton Mill No. 2 into a public park, retail space and 239-apartment complex. M Peters Group, known for its redevelopment projects at Newry Mill... Read More

Sword International Inc., a small arms and defense equipment manufacturer based in Nevada, may not yet hold the brand name recognition of Smith & Wesson and Remington, but the company is doing what some of the better-known brands hav... Read More