ROSS NORTON PROFILE

Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport will use about $11 million in FAA Airport Improvement Program funds to expand its capacity to accommodate large cargo planes. The Federal Aviation Authority last month announced more than $... Read More

Airports don’t have to be large to make a significant contribution to the economy of a county or region. While the state’s commercial airports — Charleston, Columbia, Florence, Greer, Hilton Head and Myrtle Beach &md... Read More

TD Bank is enjoying the benefit of free publicity until Greenville’s largest convention center gets a new sponsor. When TD Bank purchased Carolina First Bank in 2011, it also took over sponsorship of what was then known as Carol... Read More

Bank of America in Greenville will move from its iconic location at 101 N. Main St. in Greenville to the Camperdown building under construction at 423. S. Main St. The bank also will move its 300 N. Main St. branch to the new location. ... Read More

The start date for a Liberty Bridge maintenance project in Greenville has been postponed. WSP USA, the engineering firm hired by the city to monitor the project, is working with the contractor to enhance the environmental plan, the city ... Read More

Four of the 10 most affordable places to live in South Carolina are in the Upstate, according to a ranking system used by SmartAsset, a financial technology company that provides personal finance advice on the Internet. Sixth-ranked F... Read More

There is nobility in business, and Reed Watson wants students at Clemson University to know it. He wants everyone to know it. The business world is not operating separately from the rest of society, he said, and it’s not operati... Read More

Editor's Note: This story originally appeared in the June 25 issue of GSA Business Report. Mark Johnson is planning the future. Johnson joined the Clemson University faculty as founding director of the Center for Advanced Manuf... Read More

The state Legislature on Wednesday evening overrode Gov. Henry McMaster’s veto of a bill designed to expunge criminal records. Supporters of the new law say it will provide a boost to a shrinking labor pool and improve employment c... Read More

Frontier Airlines will begin flying in and out of Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport in September, becoming the sixth airline with service out of GSP. Dave Edwards, president and CEO of the airport, estimated the economic im... Read More

Clemson University’s Wood Utilization and Design Institute has added California-based company Katerra to its member program. Katerra joined the institute as a founding member, giving $50,000 toward the institute&rsqu... Read More

Editor's Note: This story originally appreared in the June 11, 2018 issue of GSA Business Report. In his 1984 book, The Complete Joy of Home Brewing, Charlie Papazian wrote about his paradise — the time in America before the... Read More

South Carolina is looking for a few good truckers — more than a few, actually. Players in the industry say we already have a trucker shortage and a single statistic suggests it will get worse if something doesn’t change. T... Read More

The Greenville County Council approved a $1.1 billion plan Tuesday that will transform County Square into a multi-use high-rise complex that county economic developers believe will spur further growth in the area surrounding it. The spra... Read More

Rumors about the death of marked twine have been greatly exaggerated. Twine, yarn, fabric, thread, cordage … the textile manufacturing industry in South Carolina – and the rest of the nation – has suffered through s... Read More

Route 2 Capital Partners, a private investment firm formed in Greenville in 2017, has secured its licensure as the state’s first Small Business Investment Company, accredited through the U.S. Small Business Administration. The l... Read More

This story originally appeared in the April 16 issue of GSA Business Report. When an employer has a position to fill and a person with disabilities wants to fill it, the important thing for both to remember is that they’re reall... Read More

Stonecutters from around the country visited Greenville and Easley in March to see how a backyard operation has grown into the most technologically-advanced natural stone fabricator in the country. John Rozelle, who started Rozelle St... Read More

Brittany Sargent can’t help it. She laughs sometimes when talking to family back in New York. She laughs because it’s snowing there and warm here. And she laughs because she didn’t have to give up the finer things in li... Read More

Some of the major manufacturing leaders in the Upstate are remaining tight-lipped about the effects of tariffs and a possible trade war, but one university professor thinks it could be the time for manufacturers to explore the value of c... Read More

The predictions were dire. The economy was tanking in 2008 and struggling in the months and years that followed, and word was, traditional jobs were on the way out. Employers and laid off workers alike were turning to staffing agencie... Read More

A member of the Clemson University industrial engineering faculty has secured a $550,000 award from the National Science Foundation that promises to boost career options for people with disabilities while augmenting the workforce for emp... Read More

The biggest thing in pro bass fishing launched this morning from Green Pond Landing in Anderson, but the economic impact of the Bassmaster Classic was well underway yesterday. The 52 top anglers in the Bassmaster Elite Series earned t... Read More

Restaurants are on the front burner in Spartanburg, especially downtown where 18 eateries have opened or announced an opening in the last nine months, not one of them a chain hamburger joint. It’s a trend that represents the re-... Read More

The Clemson University Vehicle Assembly Center opened Thursday in the Greenville Technical College Center for Manufacturing Innovation. The center will allow automotive researchers, students and manufacturers to work side by side ... Read More

Writer, speaker and business consultant Polly LaBarre will keynote Ten at the Top’s Upstate Summit in September. Ten at the Top staff made the announcement Monday at its 2018 Kickoff Reception at the A.C. Hotel in Spartanburg. ... Read More

On the Menu provides the latest news from the Upstate’s culinary community, including new restaurants, new menu items and upcoming events, as well as details about local chefs. Submissions should be sent to gsanews@scbiznews.com. ... Read More