ROSS NORTON PROFILE

Prisma Health is investing $5 million in a pilot nursing recruitment program at five S.C. universities and colleges — Clemson University, the University of South Carolina, the University of South Carolina Upstate, Greenville Techni... Read More

Prisma Health powered a groundbreaking ceremony at Greenville Technical College today with a $1.5 million gift to support construction of a new building where students will pursue the education that leads them to careers in health care. ... Read More

Ingevity Corp. has completed its previously disclosed acquisition of privately-owned Ozark Materials in an all-cash transaction valued at $325 million. The business will be included in Ingevity’s Performance Chemicals segment, ... Read More

The Beach Co., along with its owners, the Darby and Way families, have pledged $1 million to the Emanuel Nine Memorial. The Mother Emanuel Memorial Foundation Board, which manages the fundraising, construction, endowment and outr... Read More

Boysen USA, a subsidiary of the German-based Boysen Group, plans to expand its South Carolina presence with a new operation in Spartanburg County. The $4.5 million investment will create 88 new jobs. A specialist in automotive exhaust... Read More

Boeing is committing $2 million to assist with on the ground disaster recovery and relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian in Florida. The pledge includes a $750,000 donation to the Volunteer Florida Fou... Read More

Hot Properties highlights recently sold or leased commercial properties in the Charleston region. Send in your transactions using our online form. Marcus & Millichap, a commercial real estate brokerage firm specializing ... Read More

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

Boeing and China Airlines have finalized an order for up to 24 787 Dreamliners as the carrier invests in the fuel-efficient widebody to expand passenger and cargo operations. The two companies announced the order in a news release thi... Read More

A java green metallic BMW X6 M rolled off the assembly line today, 30 years after the company broke ground on the BMW Manufacturing plant in Spartanburg County. The vehicle has a 600-horsepower 4.4 liter BMW M TwinPower V-8 engine, Si... Read More

On the eve of the 30th anniversary of the groundbreaking ceremony that signaled the arrival of BMW Manufacturing, the company today added two private bridges and nearly 1 million square feet of floor space to its ever-expanding ... Read More

Vinyl floor manufacturer Responsive Industries plans to establish new operations in Greenville County. The company’s initial $10 million investment will create 10 new jobs. “Responsive Industries is proud to join the Green... Read More

Investors Management Group Inc. bought Millennium Apartments in Greenville $64.4 million on Sept. 20 a unit price of $211,000 per apartment. Over the past year, IMG has sponsored the acquisition of more than 1,600 units totaling $300 ... Read More

Hot Properties highlights recently sold or leased commercial properties in the Charleston region. Send in your transactions using our online form. Pete Harper, Reid Davis, Cameron Yost of Lee & Associates Charleston LLC ... Read More

Crave Hot Dogs & BBQ has solidified plans to move into the Upstate. The company said it has signed a franchise agreement with Carlos Goodman for a location to be determined in Spartanburg, according to a news release. Crave has... Read More

Cloud software company Blackbaud on Wednesday announced it has extended President and CEO Mike Gianoni's employment contract for an additional three years. The new arrangement extends Gianoni's service through December 2025, a... Read More

An advanced materials company in Pendleton has been awarded $1.15 million to develop materials to protect soldiers from chemical warfare agents. A spokesperson for Tetramer Technologies said existing carbon-based materials shield... Read More

  This story was updated Sept 22. Sweet Grass Vodka, a family-owned spirits and distilling company, will establish front-door operations in Charleston County with a new location open to the public. The company’s $1.7 ... Read More

Colliers South Carolina says industrial demand is driving new development in the Upstate and expanding the boundaries of the Charlotte market, making the I-85 corridor in Cherokee County more attractive to industrial prospects and the co... Read More

Below is a Q&A with with South Carolina Realtors' President Cindy Creamer. From the time we first heard the word “coronavirus,” the real estate market responded first by coming to a complete (although brief) st... Read More

The Greenville Area Development Corp. today confirmed reports that Volvo Cars USA is seeking a fee-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement to invest more than $42 million in a tooling facility. The GADC said in a statement that Volvo Cars USA does... Read More

The longtime director of Greenville Downtown Airport has awarded the Order of the Palmetto, the state’s highest civilian honor. Lt. Gov. Pamela S. Evette presented the Order of the Palmetto to Joseph R. Frasher on behalf of Gov.... Read More

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

Hot Properties highlights recently sold or leased commercial properties in the Charleston region. Send in your transactions using our online form. Faith Geiger of East Bay Co. Ltd. represented the landlord, East Bay Co. Ltd.... Read More

The Clemson University School of Nursing has received a grant totaling nearly $4 million to help educate nurses on mobile health and ultimately increase the workforce to take health care to patients in rural areas. The grant... Read More

A day after announcing a new senior vice president of mergers and acquisitions, Agape Care Group has announced an acquisition. Agape Care, a Spartanburg portfolio company of Ridgemont Equity Partners, acquired GHC Hospice, a... Read More

Europastry, a global baked goods company, today announced plans to establish operations in Laurens County. The company’s $23 million investment will create 155 new jobs, Europastry said in a news release. It is the same industri... Read More

The Peace Center today announced plans to make Greenville a bigger dot on the map of music cities. Peace Center President and CEO Megan Riegel on Sept. 13 unveiled a major renovation project designed to diversify Greenville’s li... Read More

Hot Properties highlights recently sold or leased commercial properties in the Charleston region. Send in your transactions using our online form. Jordan Blanton of GCB Real Estate & Investments LLC represented the selle... Read More

Great Southern Homes Inc., one of the most highly visible homebuilders in the state, is going public. The Irmo company with building projects — most of them large housing developments — throughout South Carolina and some i... Read More

For weekly updates on commercial deals, see the Hot Properties feature every Tuesday in our GSA Daily email. The following commercial real estate transactions were recently completed in the Upstate. Randall Bentley, Kevin Bentley and ... Read More

Monument Capital Management, an A-Rod Corp. company and a fully integrated real estate investment firm, sold Park West Apartments in Greenville for $39 million. Monument was represented by Tai Cohen with Cushman Wakefield in the trans... Read More

Northland, a national real estate private equity firm, has purchased 511 Meeting in Charleston. The residential building is Northland’s third investment in the Charleston area. Terms of the sale were not disclosed. 511 Meeti... Read More

Greenville-based Aline Capital orchestrated the $28.1 million sale of Alston Arms Apartments in North Charleston. The 160-unit multifamily community is on 8.7 acres and was constructed in 2007, according to a news release. Texas-based... Read More

Self Regional HealthCare and the MUSC Health Cardiothoracic Surgery Network, based in Charleston, have signed an affiliation agreement with a goal of expanding the Greenwood program’s surgical capabilities. Through this affiliat... Read More

For weekly updates on commercial deals, see the Hot Properties feature every Tuesday in our GSA Daily email. The following commercial real estate transactions were recently completed in the Upstate. Andrew Harrill, Jordan Skellie and ... Read More

The College of Charleston School of Business began offering a Bachelor of Science in Management this semester. “Management is the allocation of a company’s most valuable resource — its people,” Carrie Messal, c... Read More

Nucor Corp., one of the largest manufacturers of steel and steel products in North America, intends to spend more than $200 million on Berkeley County facilities in the next five years, including a building that supplies industrial gases... Read More

Power:Ed presented the Spartanburg Community College Foundation with a $39,375 award to support the establishment of a success coach for students pursuing their pre-health associate degree.  Power:Ed is an organization working to... Read More

Bosch will invest more than $200 million into its Anderson campus to create the manufacturing capacity to build hydrogen fuel cell stacks that power big trucks. It means at least 350 new jobs by the time production begins in 2026. Fue... Read More

Spartanburg-based Tindall is opening a dedicated production line at their Virginia manufacturing plant for their patented precast concrete floor slab system, Tindall Superior Lightweight All-Purpose Beam — the company’s trade... Read More

For weekly updates on commercial deals, see the Hot Properties feature every Tuesday in our GSA Daily email. The following commercial real estate transactions were recently completed in the Upstate. Sammy DuBose of Coldwell Banker Com... Read More

The Carolina Cup will tee off in Spartanburg Oct. 9-11, bringing 15 universities to the Carolina Country Club. The first of what planners say will be an annual tournament is attracting teams including the University of Connecticut, Ho... Read More

Hot Properties highlights recently sold or leased commercial properties in the Charleston region. Send in your transactions using our online form. Kevin Shields of Belk Lucy represented the landlord in the lease of 1,500 squ... Read More

Upstate Warrior Solution was awarded a $200,000 grant from Truist Foundation to expand their Veteran Entrepreneurship and Workforce Development program. The grant will enable Upstate Warrior Solution to provide training and mentorship to... Read More

Grain & Barrel Spirits, a Charleston-based company that develops and scales craft spirits with the intent to connect artisans to consumers worldwide, has partnered with Wilderness Collective, which operates adventures to help people ... Read More

Just 19 days after resuming deliveries of its North Charleston-based 787s with a 787-9 to American Airlines, Boeing resumed deliveries to Europe with a 787-9 to Lufthansa in a celebration Monday at Paine Field in Everett, Wash. The Lu... Read More

Milliken & Co. has promoted David Smith to executive vice president and president of Milliken’s Textile Business. Stepping into this new role after more than 40 years with Milliken, Smith will oversee the Spartanburg company... Read More

Southern First Bancshares Inc. has appointed Cal Hurst president of the company. Southern First Bancshares is the holding company for Southern First Bank. Hurst has served as chief banking officer and executive vice president of So... Read More

Artist Collective opened a new pop-up gallery in The Charleston Place, in Charleston’s historic district under new local ownership by Beemok Hospitality Collection. Artist Collective’s downtown space is the first to showca... Read More

A modular home manufacturer is setting up shop in Oconee County’s city of Westminster. Impact Housing Group, a builder of modular design housing, said through the state Commerce Department that it will establish new operations w... Read More

Sunny Days Entertainment LLC, a supplier, distributor and manufacturer of children’s toys, today announced plans to move its expanding corporate headquarters from Simpsonville to Laurens County. The company’s $16 million inve... Read More

Argo AI is ready to turn loose the horses. The autonomy products and services company has been testing self-driving cars in urban situations in places like Miami and Austin, Texas, but is drawing closer to its plan of testing the tech... Read More

Dallas-based Hall Structured Finance has originated a new first lien construction loan totaling $38.7 million to finance the development of the Roost Apartment Hotel in Charleston. The extended-stay, boutique apartment hotel will be o... Read More

Trident United Way President and CEO Chloe Knight Tonney has announced her retirement, effective Sept. 15, concluding a 35-year career in philanthropy. “With 17 years of experience at the National Foundation for the Centers for ... Read More

Hot Properties highlights recently sold or leased commercial properties in the Charleston region. Send in your transactions using our online form. The Net Lease Group announced the sale of a 15,820 square-foot Flowers Foods ... Read More

Todd Turner has been named CEO of OTO Development, taking over the role from fellow co-founder Corry Oakes, who died unexpectedly on Aug. 7. Oakes and Turner, along with Jim Ovenden, founded their namesake hotel development and hospit... Read More

Charleston County’s Public Safety Directorate has hired Tom Van Koughnett as director for the Tri-County Biological Science Center. Van Koughnett will be an integral part of the design/build process for the lab as well as creating ... Read More

Owners Cynthia Kirk and John Sheffield opened Sheffield’s Wine Bar & Tapas on Aug. 17 in Suite C of at 320 W. Coleman Blvd. in Mount Pleasant. The business opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony by the Mount Pleasant Chamber ... Read More

The Greenville Chamber's Leadership Greenville Program will unveil a newly renovated house on Aug. 24 that a selected local veteran will soon call home. With the help of around 60 community businesses and sponsors, the Leadership Gre... Read More

Frampton Construction Co. LLC has completed the construction of a new 130-door, 89,000-square-foot transload facility for TradePort Logistics in Charleston. The design-build project was developed by The Keith Corp. in partnership with th... Read More

Ichor Life Sciences, a preclinical contract research organization, plans to invest $1.5 million in MitoChem Therapeutics of Charleston. MitoChem Therapeutics develops treatments to address the effects of mitochondrial dysfunction in n... Read More

Angela Mund, a certified registered nurse anesthetist and resident of Mount Pleasant, recently took office as the 2022-2023 president of the 59,000-member American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology, headquartered in Rosemont, Ill. &... Read More

U.S. Rep. David Trone, a Democrat from Maryland, and his wife have given $10 million to Furman University, with $8.5 million dedicated to student mental health services and $1.5 million to support Furman’s Hillel, the Jewish Studen... Read More

Luxury real estate firm Handsome Properties represented the buyer and seller in the sale of The Governor’s House at 117 Broad St. in Charleston, listed for $7,495,000. Deborah C. Fisher, Handsome Properties broker-in-charge held th... Read More

Hot Properties highlights recently sold or leased commercial properties in the Charleston region. Send in your transactions using our online form. Marcus & Millichap announced the sale of an O’Reilly Auto Parts in ... Read More

MAU Inc. has acquired the project services and staffing division of Doozer Software. MAU is based in Augusta but has a large presence in the Upstate, as a key hiring agency for companies such as BMW Manufacturing and Michelin. The fir... Read More

For weekly updates on commercial deals, see the Hot Properties feature every Tuesday in our GSA Daily email. The following commercial real estate transactions were recently completed in the Upstate. Glenn Batson, vice president of Spe... Read More

Breeze Airways announced two new nonstop routes coming this fall from Charleston’s CHS to Los Angeles and Phoenix. The Lowcountry is the biggest base for Breeze Airways, which also is adding six weekly flights to Provo, Utah, ev... Read More

OTO Development is mourning the unexpected death of Corry W. Oakes III, co-founder and CEO of the Spartanburg company. OTO Development is a hotel development and management group with a portfolio that includes hotels across the countr... Read More

The Zucker Institute for Innovation Commercialization, a technology accelerator and component of the Office of Innovation at the Medical University of South Carolina, and Blinkcns Inc. have entered into a strategic, exclusive licensing a... Read More

No one had to bump a horn to urge Boeing through the green light. Just two days after the FAA issued a statement saying deliveries of the North Charleston 787s could resume “in the coming days,” and a day after Boeing rema... 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 our GSA Daily email. Andrew Harrill of Lee and Associate... Read More

The long pause may be over for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner program based in North Charleston. The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that Boeing has made the changes needed to resume delivery of the planes. “Bo... Read More

Bottles Beverage Superstore plans to open a Greenville location in September at 7 Milestone Way at Milestone Village Shopping Center off Pelham Road. The new store will have 15,000 square feet of wine, beer and spirits, including appr... Read More