$68 million investment will create 1,031 jobs, officials say.

New jet is the first in a series of 16 planes to be built for the Royal Bahraini Air Force

March means Madness, and a great time to be a college basketball fan. But the NCAA says fewer than 2 percent of NCAA student-athletes go on to be professional athletes. In reality, the organization says, most student-athletes depend on academics to prepare them for life after college.

It is safe to say there will always be brick-and-mortar businesses. Some companies must have a physical presence due to their offerings. In other cases, an owner may simply prefer to have a physical business location.

It’s a story that brings to mind the unlikely Jamaican bobsledders of the 1988 Winter Olympics in Alberta, Canada: How did a South Carolina golf course designer become obsessed with the ice sport of curling, eventually coming to be the president of the World Curling Federation?

It was a compliment — with a caveat. “I really commend you for opening your own business,” a colleague told Ford Elliott in April of 2010, shortly after Elliott had founded a commercial real estate brokerage in Greenville operating under the name Blackstream. “But I’ll be honest — I don’t think you’ll make it.”

Patrick Monsiváis confesses that the idea to launch his own business sprang from being a helicopter parent to his infant daughter. He wanted his baby to have the best start in life, he says, so he gave her iron supplements. But she hated the taste and refused to take it, he says.

New $2 billion U.S. Manufacturing Facility Planned Near Columbia, SC

Few, if any, besides himself and perhaps his family and closest advisers, likely knew in December that former South Carolina Gov. David Beasley would resign as executive director of the World Food Programme, the world’s largest humanitarian organization.

Beneath the veneer of the shiny new visage of our vibrant city lies an older body of resolve. Greenville is made of the good old stuff that cracks but does not crumble. While historians differ on the origins of our place name, the most inviting argument is that Greenville named itself by virtue of the hue of its verdant landscape.

Change is coming from an economic perspective. Specifically, there is little doubt that the U.S., and probably the world, will be in a recession by the end of the first quarter of 2023. Everyone is aware of the tech industries’ recent announcements of significant job reductions, including Amazon’s announced reduction of approximately 10,000 jobs, Meta downsizing by more than 11,000 employees, and Twitter’s reduction of nearly half of its employees. However, other recent layoffs have occurred at Coinbase, Netflix, Shopify, Stripe, and Spotify.

They are scenarios that national health and security experts have been contemplating for years. A deadly virus crosses from animal to human triggering another pandemic. A dangerous microorganism accidentally escapes from a research lab to infect a population.

When Dr. Laura Valleni and her daughter moved to the BullStreet District in May of 2019, she had a hard time imagining what was coming, but she still wanted to be a part of it. “A friend of mine was the first person to purchase a home at TownPark at BullStreet, and she and her daughter were the only two people living in the entire BullStreet District, which I found a bit unsettling. But as I saw the plans and construction underway, the more I thought about this space, the more I wanted to be a part of it,” Valleni said. So she and her daughter became the third family to move into TownPark, the district’s first residential project, located just off Calhoun Street.

With a chance that the state and the nation could slip into a recession sometime in 2023, South Carolina’s economy continues to do well and any impact is expected to be mild. Meanwhile, one of the biggest worries for South Carolina employers in 2023 is finding workers.

Leader in FDA-approved low level laser technology expands life sciences ecosystem, investing $6.7 million in new operations here

It was supposed to be the slow time of year in the Greenville real estate market, but there was nothing slow about it. Average sales prices in the region had crested to a new record, sellers were receiving an average of over 100 percent of their asking price, and homes in the city’s most desirable locations were inundated with showings and sold within days. And all of it was happening in February of 2022, when market activity was typically as low as the temperature atop Sassafras Mountain.

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When I was a kid, the library was my favorite place in the world. I once read a book about some kids who got accidentally locked in the library overnight, and for the rest of my childhood, that was my dream. I proudly embraced the term “bookworm,” and spent almost every free moment with my nose in a book.