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#CharlestonAgenda: Carolina Panthers' Economic Impact, Citadel MBA Program Honored, Georgetown's Blue-Collar Commuters, SC Boeing Safety Concerns, Bee Spit Glue

Mar 29, 2019 09:23AM ● By Chris Haire
With South Carolina leaders wanting to offer the Carolina Panthers financial incentives to move their HQ to Rock Hill, it's a good time to ask: "What's the economic impact of the team?"

According to a University of South Carolina study, the Panthers had an annual impact of $636 million, with $512 million going to its home base in Mecklenburg County—and those were just the figures from 2012, a few years before Cam Newton took the team to the Super Bowl and finished the season with a 15-1 record.

Closer to home—and more recently—the Panthers’ summer training camp at Wofford had a reported economic impact of $13.24 million. That said, conventional wisdom suggests that if the team moves its HQ and facilities to South Carolina—again, Rock Hill with its short 20-minute drive from the Queen City seems to be a lock—they’ll likely be saying goodbye to the home of the Terriers and Spartanburg will be saying goodbye to good money.

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Timber And Metalwork May Be Key Industries In Georgetown, But The Count Also Supplies Other Areas With Workers: “We have a huge outmigration of residents going to work in other counties—everything from white collar professional services all the way to medium- and low-skill labor. But what we have that a lot of other counties don’t have is a large outmigration of blue collar, skilled labor,” says Brian Tucker, director of economic development for Georgetown County, who adds that the county’s unemployment rate is currently at a historic low of 4 percent. (Charleston Business Magazine)

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3 major developments including modern office building approved for downtown Charleston (Post and Courier)SC Boeing workers had safety concerns over production schedule, Senate hearing reveals (Post and Courier)

Under pressure to revamp the 737 MAX,  Boeing entered the jet into service before the first flight simulators were ready (WSJ)




The FCC Has Fined Robocallers $208 Million. It’s Collected $6,790. (WSJ)

Steel Producer Nucor to Build $1.3B Mill in Rural Kentucky (Manufacturing.Net)



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