MOLLY HULSEY PROFILE

State Education Superintendent Molly Spearman pressed for the return of safe in-class instruction and the recruitment of quality teachers during today’s announcement of the department’s 2021 legislative priorities. “... Read More

Minor League Baseball may have fielded a season of reconfiguration, but Greenville’s Fenway Park look-alike isn’t breaking ties with the Boston Red Sox anytime soon, verified Greenville Drive General Manager Eric Jarinko. ... Read More

National staffing employment reached its highest peak in 10 months last month with at least 48% of staffing companies in the American Staffing Association reporting an increase in assignments each week. According to the ASA’s la... Read More

Frontline workers at Prisma Health received the first shipment of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine last week, but to some extent, the shipment was simply returning home to the Upstate. Greenville is the North American headquarters for ... Read More

As COVID-19 cases explode in the Upstate, leaders from five Upstate health care systems addressed fears of exceeding hospital capacity at a joint press conference today. Leadership from AnMed Health, Bon Secours St. Francis, Prisma He... Read More

COVID-19 brought budget cuts and a hit of more than $53 million per month to Greenville’s hospitality economy, the financial well for the city’s 60-acre Unity Park project, this summer. In June, $250,000 was reallocated fr... Read More

Following the announcement of a $900 million U.S. Air Force contract on Friday, Lockheed Martin’s Greenville facility will become the only corporate F-16 sustainment and support depot in the country. According to a news release,... Read More

Real estate consulting company Armada Analytics Inc. has had a presence in Greenville for about 10 years, but a $1 million investment in a new facility at 104 S. Main St. will make it a national hub for employees and clients. Needing ... Read More

Since 2005, the size of South Carolina’s tech industry has doubled, leaving an economic footprint of $89 billion, according to the SC Council on Competitiveness’ first SC Tech Economic Impact Study. The study, conducted by... Read More

As Lockheed Martin and Boeing scale up operation in the Palmetto State, the aerospace giants are on the hunt for regional suppliers and vendors able to meet local needs. “I know personally that with Lockheed Martin's new pro... Read More

Just more than a year after a $13 million expansion of its Garlington Road facility, Greenville’s Accurate Brazing is doubling its capacity to serve the aerospace and medical industries. Last year’s upgrade included the in... Read More

While some businesses are just now recovering from the blows that 2020 brought their way, others were in the right place at the right time. Fitesa, a Brazilian nonwoven fabric manufacturer, plans to invest about $100 million at its Si... Read More

When Karen Alayne McCullough came into the world, the doctor told her parents she would never walk. McCullough was born with spina bifida, meaning split spine, but would be climbing trees only a few years later. Still, the idea of ... Read More

As 2020 comes to a close, Ten at the Top exchanged its annual Celebrating Successes Luncheon for a virtual Celebrating Upstate Unsung Heroes gala to honor the individuals and businesses that put their time, and sometimes lives, on the li... Read More

JP Morgan Chase and Co. may be headquartered in New York, but as the bank expands its market portfolio with a second office in the Upstate today, its bankers want to drive home the company’s commitment to establishing local roots. ... Read More

When Upstate unemployment numbers bottomed out at 2.7% during April 2019 and industries struggled to recruit enough workers to keep up with the demand, Upstate SC Alliance launched Move Upstate SC, an online nexus for professional worker... Read More

Greenville teams raise awareness for plasma drive As COVID-19 cuts into sports seasons and tickets sales, business leaders of Greenville’s professional baseball, hockey and soccer teams met last week to raise awareness for &ldqu... Read More

Vocal crowds may have stretched out the latest Anderson County Council meeting with concerns over a countywide mask ordinance and relocation of a Confederate monument, but the council made headway on the budget and several economic devel... Read More

BASF Maintenance Technician Kegan Roberts also serves as the senior sniper of South Carolina. But having that accolade on his resume hasn’t always helped land a job outside the military, even after transitioning from active duty... Read More

Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport is still down by about 35%, but that’s not stopping the Upstate transit hub from charging ahead with capital projects. “We still have a second runway plan for the future, we hav... Read More

There is only so much “kaizen” — the Japanese term for continuous improvement — that can take place without implementing what has become known Manufacturing 4.0 technologies, according to Antonio Vaz, directo... Read More

Correction: This article previously attributed the 2020 Aerospace Economic Impact Study to the University of South Carolina Darla Moore School of Business. It has since been corrected reflect that the S.C. Council on Compe... Read More

It’s 4 p.m. on a balmy Wednesday and a family of eight strolls along the storefronts of Gaffney Outlet Marketplace — fondly known as the Yellow Mall by residents — stopping under the pink sign of Justice that the girls ... Read More

Gourmet restaurant closures may be at an all-time high, but Charlotte-based Reid’s Fine Foods has made the best of having a toehold in both the specialty grocery and hospitality markets. So much so that the dine-in, pick-up venu... Read More

South Carolina is one of the deadliest states in the country for nursing home residents with COVID-19 according to a recent AARP report. The state also faces a higher than average shortage of nurses and aides. The report, featuring se... Read More

Facing the fallout of a COVID-19 diagnosis alone in a hospital room can be an excruciating challenge for anyone. But especially for those who don’t speak the same language as their physicians and nurses. According to doctoral... Read More

According to the U.S. Travel Association, at least 50% of all travel-supported jobs will disappear by December if federal aid doesn’t come into the equation. By no means has Greenville remained immune to the staggering losses fi... Read More

The S.C. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Gov. Henry McMaster’s $32 million tuition grant program for private school students violates the state constitution. “We hold the governor’s decision constitutes the use of... Read More

Welding projects don’t always clean up easily, and even scrap metal can be a commodity at times. Especially for beginners in the first stages of the learning process. So Piedmont Technical College’s William H. “Billy... Read More

Despite 2020 being a devastating year for the state’s tourism industry, it also marks a bright spot for Charleston and Greenville’s staying power in the small city travel market. More than 715,000 Conde Nast Traveler reade... Read More

As Hire Dynamics gears up for a nationwide drive-thru and walk-up hiring event, Upstate Regional Manager Laura Moody notes that all of the area’s major auto and textiles manufacturers are seeking talent. While smaller companies ... Read More

Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, digital banking had been on the rise. And this could not be more true after the marketplace made the online leap en mass this spring. Representatives at Ohio-based Fifth-Third Bank note that at least... Read More

Richard Schweitzer just wanted to go home when he and his wife Linda almost passed the exit for Greenville on a drizzly Autumn night more than 13 years ago. Home then was Tennessee. In the past, New York. Over the years, the coup... Read More

As Greenville prepares to release plans for the extension of the Swamp Rabbit Trail to the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research at an open house Thursday, Mauldin is taking steps toward installing its own leg o... Read More

When Table 301 Restaurant Group owner Carl Sobocinski got dressed and left his home for the opening soiree of Greenville’s Euphoria festival, he had no idea that he would return with the state’s highest civilian honor. Six... Read More

Greenville’s culinary showcase Euphoria launched Thursday night with close-knit dinners at the Fork & Plough, Hotel Domestique’s Restaurant 17 and Avenue and will conclude with a Sunday dinner at The Barn at Sitton Hill F... Read More

One of downtown Spartanburg’s newest tenants opened just in time for patrons to try a hand at this year’s World Axe Throwing League competitions. Craft Axe Throwing’s eighth location opened in the Hub City a little o... Read More

West Greenville’s 800,000-square-foot historical redevelopment project is set to receive $16.5 million in New Markets Tax Credits for the completion of its $19 million commercial phase, in conjunction with historic and S.C. mill ta... Read More

You won’t see mailboxes at the Victorian-porched homes in the Oconee mill village of Newry. To pick up bills and Christmas cards, residents visit the post office instead, housed beside a bygone mercantile store, to check bot... Read More

Southeastern tech company DC Blox will build a Tier III data center, its fifth across four states, in Greenville’s Global Business Park with an expected investment of more than $200 million. Doors are set to open at the center&r... Read More

Editor's note: The headline on the previous version of this story misidentified the company involved. Academy Sports and Outdoors donated the shoes. The headline has been updated. As summer came to a close, Diana Watson, chie... Read More

As one of seven new women’s business centers across the country opened its doors for the first time in Greenville, national and local business leaders gathered on Sept. 4 onsite to celebrate the state’s female entrepreneurs. ... Read More

By the time the Spartanburg Area Chamber of Commerce closed its 2020 Annual Celebration, it no longer existed. Now called the OneSpartanburg Inc., the newly structured and focused organization includes the Spartanburg Convention &... Read More

Over one month after the release of a legislative audit critiquing the Commerce Department for its lack of oversight and transparency with money funding economic development projects, the agency has adopted some recommendations as state ... Read More

The country’s economic rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic may not be “V-shaped,” but investment in the Upstate, especially in medical equipment and biopharmaceutical companies, has picked up over the summer, regional ec... Read More

A recent report (.pdf) released by the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers highlighted that the tax cuts extended to 8,000 low-income communities designated as opportunity zones through legislation drafted by Sen. Tim Scott ... Read More

The dispute over Gov. Henry McMaster’s private school grant program will be heard by state Supreme Court justices on Sept. 18 after an Orangeburg judge halted the grants on July 22. “I think that’s a good place for i... Read More

The Department of Defense this week announced a $62 billion 10-year contract with Lockheed Martin Corp. for the production of 90 F-16 fighter jets to be built at the aerospace company’s Greenville location. The order is exp... Read More

As the dispute over the use of COVID-19 funding for private school tuition awaits potential S.C. Supreme Court review, both parties agree that the question boils down to whether the state-allocated grants are used as a direct or indirect... Read More

Tom O’Hanlan, BookerLAB, Liberty Spotlighted by Pink Floyd to the Beatles to Eric Clapton, some might call the Leslie speaker the unassuming backbone of classic rock and roll. Tom Booker O’Hanlan called the spinning spe... Read More

Seventy school districts across the state will receive $10 million worth of personal protective equipment and Plexiglas desk shields from the state’s $155 million COVID-19 response reserve starting this week, including at least 15 ... Read More

While the hospitality industry is making a slow recovery statewide, Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette and Dan Ellzey, executive director of S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce, argue that the Palmetto State’s manufacturing sector and ... Read More