ROSS NORTON PROFILE

Like almost everyone else, Charleston County Parks has to look harder to find staff these days. What’s good for everyone else is they have been successful. With increased staffing comes increased access to Splash Island and Spla... Read More

Bevi Bene Brewing Co., a new lager and hard kombucha brewery, celebrated its grand opening on June 25. Joining Charleston’s brewery district on the upper peninsula, Bevi Bene is Charleston’s only lager and hard kombucha br... Read More

The family operating a number of Papa John’s franchises is bringing an Orlando-based restaurant with a chicken tender-based menu to the Upstate. The first Huey Magoo’s opened this week at 2029 Wade Hampton Blvd. in Gr... Read More

IPS Packaging & Automation a Fountain Inn-based industrial packaging distributor and automation provider, has acquired Day-Pak Inc., based in Dayton, Ohio. The acquisition, announced this week by IPS, strengthens the company&rsquo... Read More

Demand for next-day delivery, exacerbated by pandemic-related efforts to onshore, is driving a huge growth in the industrial construction business for on land design working throughout the Carolinas. SeamonWhiteside is relatively new ... Read More

FieldBin, a field service management solution provider, announced on Tuesday the closing of a $1.2 million pre-seed round led by 7833 Capital Partners. FieldBin is designed to help HVAC, plumbing, electrical, landscaping and other tra... Read More

A 72-unit apartment community is taking shape in Mauldin, as a group of developers, community leaders and businesses make progress on addressing a shortage of affordable housing for low-income residents of the Upstate. Parkside at But... Read More

Chicago-based Core Spaces is teaming up with Clemson developer Tom Winkopp Development on a venture to create what they say will be one of the country’s largest off-campus student housing development projects, according to a news r... Read More

The following commercial real estate transactions were recently completed in the Upstate. For weekly updates on commercial deals, see the Hot Properties feature every Tuesday in the GSA Business Report Daily email. Ned Reynolds and Ch... Read More

Trio Solutions Inc., a Mount Pleasant marketing communications agency, will work nonstop for 24 hours to provide free advertising and marketing services to Lowcountry nonprofits during its 16th annual CreateAthon this fall. The agency... Read More

Two organizations dedicated to supporting and growing the manufacturing industry and assisting manufacturing companies in the state have entered a formal partnership. The S.C. Manufacturers Alliance and the S.C. Manufacturing Extensio... Read More

A trio of real estate veterans today announced the formation of Three Real Estate and its partnership with Side, a real estate technology company that partners with agents, teams and independent brokerages to help make them int... Read More

The Cassina Group founding partner Jimmy Dye participated in the sale of 1714 Middle St., a historic property between the lighthouse and Fort Moultrie on Sullivan’s Island. The property sold for $2,785,000. Dye, broker-in-charge, w... Read More

The owners of a new business that offers intravenous therapy officially opened for business in Mount Pleasant this week. Owners Andrew and Malia Stocker were joined by City Councilman John Iacofano, Mount Pleasant Chamber of Commerce ... Read More

Gov. Henry McMaster honored S.C. Ports President and CEO Jim Newsome with the Order of the Palmetto. The Order of the Palmetto is the highest civilian honor in South Carolina, recognizing the recipient’s life... Read More

Charles “Chuck” Willys Mincey Jr., 65, of Flora, Miss., Karl Henry Zerbst Jr., 62, of Mount Pleasant, and Brian Daniel Herndon, 46, of Summerville, were sentenced in federal court after pleading guilty for their roles in kick... Read More

Phase 1 of City House Charleston, a mixed-use multi-parcel complex in downtown Charleston, is set to begin this summer. It is a project of Landmark Partners, which is working with Bello Garris Architects, SGA-NW Architecture and Rethi... Read More

The first Southern First Bank building — a triple-wide trailer off Haywood Road — would fit in the corridors of their latest. Employees moved into the new building on Verdae Boulevard at the intersection of Laurens Road ab... Read More

Orangeburg-based Zeus today said the company will invest millions to expand catheter manufacturing capacity worldwide, starting with the expansion of a plant in San Jose, Calif., where construction is already underway. The company&rsq... Read More

The following commercial real estate transactions were recently completed in the Upstate. For weekly updates on commercial deals, see the Hot Properties feature every Tuesday in the GSA Business Report Daily email. T Cox of Coldwell B... Read More

Micky and Amy Scott of Allendale have given $2 million to the Clemson University Wood Utilization + Design Institute to endow the institute’s directorship. The Patricia “Pat” Layton Endowed Directorship is ... Read More

The Spinx Co. raises $435,000 for charity The Spinx Co. raised $435,000 for the March of Dimes. The money raised funds life-saving research, direct services such as the three Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Family Support sites in Sou... Read More

The Platform at Greer, an entrepreneurship program of Greer Development Corp., selected the businesses to participate in Bootcamp Cohort 6 scheduled for June 23 and 24 at The Randall House in downtown Greer.... Read More

Fogelman Properties has purchased Westbury Mews, a 132-unit apartment community in Summerville. Fogelman is one of the country’s largest privately-owned multifamily investment and property management companies, according to a ne... Read More

After two years without it, Lowcountry beer lovers can look forward to Charleston Beer Fest again. The festival will take place on from 1-7 p.m. Oct. 22 at Riverfront Park. The festival includes regional breweries, beer games, food tr... Read More

The Boeing Co. has donated $500,000 to the Mother Emanuel Memorial Foundation Board for the Emanuel Nine Memorial. The board manages the fundraising, construction, endowment and outreach for the memorial. “The Emanuel Nine Me... Read More

Companies are always announcing what they plan to do — investments they intend to make and employees they intend to hire. Gehl Foods LLC on Tuesday announced what they’ve already done. The food and manufacturing compa... Read More

North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey and the City Council will break ground on the redevelopment of the interior of Park Circle tomorrow at 10 a.m. The ceremony will take place inside the circle. Park Circle is soon to be reimagined to... Read More

  Holder Properties Inc. announced that Total Quality Logistics, one of the largest third-party logistics firms in North America, has leased 40,589 square feet of office space at Marshside, Charleston’s newest waterfront of... Read More

The Villages at Town Creek, a 61-unit, 244-bed townhome community in Pendleton has been sold by Georgia-based QR Capital to an undisclosed buyer, according to an announcement from CBRE. Jaclyn Fitts, William Vonderfecht and&... Read More

The Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority and Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments will receive more than $1.2 in cumulative grant funding from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.  The transportatio... Read More

Clemson University is seeking healthy older adults to volunteer for a study called Preventing Alzheimer’s with Cognitive Training. This study examines whether computerized brain training exercises can reduce the risk of cognit... Read More

The second annual Women for Women Summit, presented by the College of Charleston School of Business, will be June 23 at the Francis Marion Hotel. “Grit” is the theme of this year’s one-day event, created to... Read More

Construction has begun on a $42 million rehabilitation project that will bring 89 affordable housing units for seniors to the old Archer School on Nassau Street. The project is a city of Charleston collaboration with the Humanities Fo... Read More

Bon Secours St. Francis Health System celebrated the debut of the Diane Collins Neuroscience Institute over the weekend, a new center that allows patients to receive various, and sometimes all, aspects of their individualized neurologica... Read More

Meyco Products has acquired the assets of a Colorado-based spa cover company and is currently relocating those manufacturing operations to its facility in Moore. The company is hiring to fill dozens of positions needed to manufacture ... Read More

Glycopath has become the latest S.C. Research Authority member company, according to a news release. All SCRA member companies receive coaching, access to experts in SCRA’s Resource Partner Network, eligibility to apply for gran... Read More

The following commercial real estate transactions also were completed in the Upstate. Scott Snedigar and Givens Stewart of Wilson Kibler Commercial Real Estate helped the landlord lease 2,500 square feet of office space at 7006 Pelham... Read More

Hot Properties highlights recently sold or leased commercial properties in the Charleston region. Send in your transactions using our online form. Brian Connolly of JLL represented the landlord, Dixie King Street Investors... Read More

The owners of a new hotel in downtown Charleston say the new space will more than suffice in a pinch. They bill The Pinch as a luxury boutique hotel. The property’s 25 units quietly opened for business in recent weeks at the int... Read More

A grant from the U.S. Department of Education funding the Upward Bound program at Greenville Technical College has been renewed for five years. The college will receive $1.5 million over five years to serve qualified students at Berea, C... Read More

Community First Bancorporation, the parent company of Community First Bank Inc., sold the bank's subsidiary, SeaTrust Mortgage Co., to Primis Bank of Glen Allen, Va., in an all-cash transaction, according to a news release from Senec... Read More

S.C. Independent Colleges and Universities Inc. has awarded more than $105,000 in funding to undergraduate researchers in its 2022 Undergraduate Student/Faculty Research Program. Thirty research projects to be conducted by 31 students... Read More

Cartwright Food Hall will celebrate the $2.7 million renovation of 215 Trade St. in downtown Greer today at 4 p.m. when the multi-restaurant venue opens. Cartwright Food Hall is an “artisanal lifestyle dining location” and... Read More

The city of Greer on Tuesday bought 72.1 acres of land adjacent to the Greer Golf Course. The effort, which the city said has been underway for the past year, is an effort is to create new passive recreational space for city residents... Read More

Thirty-four South Carolina nonprofits and government agencies stretching from the mountains to the ocean are receiving Duke Energy grants to help prepare for hurricane season. Duke Energy today announced more than $500,000 in microgra... Read More

This story first appeared in the May 23 print edition of GSA Business Report. A research group at Clemson University has developed a self-repairing hose to dispense hydrogen as part of the nation’s effort to diversify its fuel s... Read More

Goodwill Industries of Upstate/Midlands unveiled Mission Mobile in a pair of ceremonies this month that the organization says will help employers find workers and people find jobs by overcoming a transportation challenge. The organi... Read More

Hot Properties highlights recently sold or leased commercial properties in the Charleston region. Send in your transactions using our online form. Brian Connolly of JLL represented the landlord, Dixie King Street Investors... Read More

Restaurant operators are responding to changing customer preferences by going for smaller footprints, according to a Colliers Charleston retail report on the first quarter of 2022. Restaurant spaces with less than 5,000 square fee... Read More

The Greenville-Spartanburg Airport District will put $8.6 million into infrastructure improvements, including expansion of the airport’s air cargo apron and other improvements to support its growing cargo business. The U.S. Econ... Read More

Charleston County is one of four communities selected to participate in the launch of the Just Home Project, a national program designed to advance community-driven efforts to break a link between housing instability and incarceration. ... Read More

 Trident Technical College took the lead on a grant to form a consortium that its members hope will create the next generation of innovation and talent for the electric vehicle industry. The consortium, called Collaborative Researc... Read More

Hot Properties highlights recently sold or leased commercial properties in the Charleston region. Send in your transactions using our online form. Mandy Coleman of National Restaurant Properties LLC represented the tenant, C... Read More

The new Charleston Southern University Doctor of Physical Therapy program opened its doors by opening its house recently, with tours of the classrooms and clinical spaces. Effective April 26, Charleston Southern University has been gr... Read More

Louisville, Ky., native Jason Thomas has been named executive editor of SC Biz News, a statewide business news organization that includes a magazine, newspapers, websites, digital newsletters, special publications and events. In his n... Read More

Venture fund group Good Growth Capital today announced it has closed its oversubscribed third fund at $102 million. The new fund is the largest in state history, according to a statement issued at the Dig South Tech Summit hosted by the ... Read More

Trison Wells, a consumer products manufacturer, plans to establish operations in Colleton County. The company’s $1.2 million investment will create 35 new jobs, according to the S.C. Commerce Department. Trison Wells is a full-s... Read More

Maison Real Estate handled the sale of another Ansonborough home that pushes its way to the upper reaches of real estate real estate prices. Listed by Maison agent Jennifer Davis, 21 Wentworth St. on May 2 closed for $4,525,000, almos... Read More

Two breweries are teaming up for the next round. Nate Tomforde will maintain ownership of Chucktown Brewery while Rusty Bull Brewing Co. owners Ben Mayer and Brian Bogstad take over beer production and help manage day-to-day brewery a... Read More

With the return of crowds, Charleston business operators are also facing a return to prohibitions against sandwich boards and other devices used to spark business when COVID-19 brought commerce to a crawl. Officers stopped enforcing c... Read More

The S.C. Ports Authority reported the biggest April ever for containers handled, marking the 14th consecutive month of cargo records at the Port of Charleston. Strong volumes are driven by sustained retail imports, which were up 34% in A... Read More

The Poe West development in the Village of West Greenville is almost full. CBRE arranged leases for three of the last four spaces, totaling 10,761 square feet of the 60,000-square-foot mixed use development at Poe West, according to a... Read More

The S.C. Economic Developers’ Association awarded the outgoing president and CEO of the S.C. Ports Authority, Jim Newsome, its Distinguished Service Award during the 2022 SCEDA Annual Conference last week at the Sonesta Resort in H... Read More

Hot Properties highlights recently sold or leased commercial properties in the Charleston region. Send in your transactions using our online form. Coldwell Banker Commercial represented the seller in the sale of 29 acres of ... Read More

Boeing announced Thursday that its Arlington, Va., campus just outside Washington, D.C., will serve as the company's global headquarters. The company has been headquartered in Chicago for 21 years. The aerospace ... Read More

BID Group announced plans to expand operations in Dorchester County. The company, in the wood processing business, will invest $10.6 million and create 25 new jobs, according to the S.C. Commerce Department. BID Group has locations th... Read More

Greenville-based site services company AMECO has acquired F&M MAFCO, an international supplier of tools and equipment rental, sales and service programs. The company will be headquartered in Greenville but maintain ... Read More

United Community Banks Inc. and Progress Financial Corp. today announced plans for UCB to purchase Progress, which is headquartered in Huntsville, Ala. The two banks announced the execution of a definitive merger agreement in which Un... Read More

The South Carolina Manufacturers Alliance has elected Chuck Hall, president and CEO of Barnet, as the next chair of the organization’s board of directors. The election took place Monday at SCMA’s two-day annual meeting in Cha... Read More

Frampton Construction Company LLC has completed work on a 430,920-square foot distribution center at the Charleston Trade Center in Summerville. The completion of the building also marks the completion of the Charleston Trade Center, acc... Read More

The following commercial real estate transactions were recently completed in the Upstate. For weekly updates on commercial deals, see the Hot Properties feature every Tuesday in the GSA Business Report Daily email.  Tim Satterfie... Read More

Charleston County microbusinesses have until Friday to apply for up to $25,000 in COVID-19 pandemic relief funds from Charleston County. In March, the Charleston County Council approved the funding to assist mom-and-pop businesses adv... Read More

The Charleston Area Transportation Study policy committee has committed an additional $14 million in infrastructure funding to the city of Charleston’s Ashley River Crossing project, according to a news release. The plann... Read More

Countybank promoted James R. Fowler Jr. to executive vice president and Anderson market executive.  Fowler has served Countybank for more than 24 years in various leadership roles, most recently as the ba... Read More

Gerald Murphy has been selected as BASF’s new site director for its locations in Mauldin and White Stone. A native of Columbia, Murphy earned his bachelor’s degree from Clemson University and his MBA from the University of... Read More

After receiving a $50,000 gift from Lockheed Martin for its aircraft maintenance technology program, Greenville Technical College has named a classroom at its aviation center “The Lockheed Martin Fabrication Lab.” The avia... Read More

The following commercial real estate transactions were recently completed in the Upstate. For weekly updates on commercial deals, see the Hot Properties feature every Tuesday in the GSA Business Report Daily email.  Givens Stewar... Read More

The following commercial real estate transactions were recently completed in the Upstate. For weekly updates on commercial deals, see the Hot Properties feature every Tuesday in the GSA Business Report Daily email.  Nicholas Sard... Read More

The following commercial real estate transactions were recently completed in the Upstate. For weekly updates on commercial deals, see the Hot Properties feature every Tuesday in the GSA Business Report Daily email.  Tim Satterfie... Read More