High-end tattoos and handmade fine jewelry have been added to the mix of businesses on Princess Street in downtown Wilmington. Meow Meow, a studio created by tattoo artist Shawn Dougherty and his wife, jeweler TeriLyn Pugliese, opened June 1 at 226 Princess St., in a historic storefront rehabbed by Raleigh-based developer James Goodnight. “I had worke ...

Officials with Publix Super Markets Inc. have announced the opening date for their Carolina Beach store. The Publix at 1018 Lake Park Blvd. N, Suite 107, in Carolina Beach will welcome customers at its grand opening scheduled for 7 a.m. June 26, according to a Publix news release. The retail center where the Carolina Beach Publix is located is called Publix Commons a ...

Stewart, an interdisciplinary design, engineering, planning and geomatics firm, announced Monday that the company has expanded in the Carolinas with two new office locations, one in Wilmington and the other in Columbia, South Carolina. Stewart has already worked on high-profile projects in Wilmington over the years, including downtown Wilmington's Riverwalk, facilit ...

The office buildings of Landfall Park near Wrightsville Beach were in many ways a sign of what the future would bring for the Mayfaire/Landfall submarket.   Two decades later, demand is so high for office space in the area, some new buildings are being filled with tenants before construction starts.   Landfall Park North at 1985 Eastwood Road was completed in ...

Unleashed owner and Raleigh-area local JP Phinney is in Wilmington this week to upfit the company’s new downtown space slated to open in June. Unleashed, the Dog and Cat Store, a retail shop offering pet supplies and services, has leased a three-story space at 2 S. Front St., under the longtime ownership of the Finkelstein's family, accordi ...

More businesses are on their way to the growing northern Brunswick County town of Leland. Hank Adams and Allan Fox of Coldwell Banker Commercial Sun Coast Partners, the leasing agents for the newly built Ocean Gate Plaza in Leland, announced this week that the retail center is now fully occupied. The last three available spaces in Ocean Gate Plaza, 1132 New Pointe Bl ...

In the sprint toward tourist season, new businesses and homes have arrived or are coming to Carolina Beach and the town’s boardwalk. Three retail units created out of the former bumper car track at 11 Pavilion Ave. on the Carolina Beach Boardwalk have been leased, according to a recent announcement from Coldwell Banker Commercial Sun Coast Partners. Two of ...

Wilmington-based Canines for Service Inc. announced this week that the organization is buying a space on Old Dairy Road that it had been leasing for three years.  The 5,022-square-foot unit at 221 Old Dairy Road will continue to be used by Canines for Service (CFS) in its mission to provide highly skilled service dogs for veterans and other ...

The new owners of an aging shopping center on South College Road plan to revamp the nearly 40-year-old property near the University of North Carolina Wilmington after paying $4.4 million for it. University Square, 806 S. College Road, is home to Saigon Market, a location of bakery Apple Annie's, Long Island Eatery, Big Gal's Boutique and Wilmington Furniture &am ...

The owners of a Second Street hotel who have revamped the historic property formerly known as The Wilmingtonian are proposing to add 45 more hotel rooms to downtown Wilmington's inventory, according to site plans recently submitted to the city. In place of an existing parking lot across from the former Wilmingtonian, which has been rebranded as ARRIVE Wilmington, ho ...