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Mar 18, 2025

Developer: Grant Could Help Preserve Part Of Sledge Forest

A developer with plans to build 4,000 homes on a sprawling Castle Hayne property is working with Unique Places to Save to conserve more than 1,100 acres on the site, according to a letter addressed to county officials and community members. In the ...

Mar 17, 2025

Meetings Set For New Homes On Gordon Road, Paws4People Campus

A proposed project would bring 86 single-family units to a roughly 11-acre site off Gordon Road in Ogden.  The development, called Heron Cove, is one of several projects scheduled to be the subjects of community meetings in the coming weeks. ...

Mar 14, 2025

CIE, Local Startup Among NC IDEA Grant Recipients

UNCW’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Wilmington-based startup Local Catch are among the recipients of the latest round of NC IDEA grant funding. The grant awards, announced in a news release this week, aim to support en ...

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It’s Child’s Play

Posted Apr 1, 2024
When conducting your next job interview, one question you may want to add is “How much did you play as a young child?”
 
The implications of what science is discovering about the importance of free play for children’s brain development are important for growing businesses.  If we want colleagues and employees who are creative, team players, get along ...read entire article
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Patriot Roofing & Exteriors Celebrates Marketing Award Wins

Mar 13, 2025

Live Oak Bank, Food Pantry, Apartments Among Real Estate Award Winners

Over the past 14 years, local food pantry Share the Table has grown prolifically. It’s evolved from a fledgling church-based group to an organization that provides 1,000 meals each week. Key to the group’s recent growth has been its ne ...

Mar 12, 2025

Indoor Pickleball Bounces Into Popularity

Last New Year’s Eve, Kayse and Jason Beasley held the grand opening of Pickle & Taps, a 10-court indoor pickleball facility with a drill room on South 13th Street in Wilmington. The couple, who met on a blind date 10 years ago, has been ...

Mar 12, 2025

The Amazon Factor: With Facilities In The Works Here, A Look At Impacts On Other NC Cities

When Amazon opened its fulfillment center in Fayetteville last June, people were ecstatic, said Robert Van Geons, president and CEO of the Fayetteville Cumberland County Economic Development Corporation. The 1.3-million-square-foot facility in Fay ...

Mar 12, 2025

Putting The Pieces In Place

Last summer, the Harpoon slayed, so to speak, on social media. That’s when Cape Fear Catamarans posted a video of the 22-foot aluminum vessel, its newest creation, online. The Harpoon footage “racked up millions of views over Instagram ...

Mar 12, 2025

What’s Next For Tariffs

Less than two weeks after assuming office, on Feb. 1, President Trump – in line with his plans previously announced on social media – imposed “a 25% additional tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico and a 10% additional tariff on ...

Mar 12, 2025

Apparel Business Presses For Growth

It’s probably safe to say Zack Sblendorio thinks about ink more than a lot of people. Sblendorio is chief operating officer of SeaSide Silk Screening, a Wilmington-headquartered family-owned business. His father, Mark Sblendorio, is the comp ...

Mar 12, 2025

High Hopes For More Businesses

Imagine U.S. 17 in Hampstead as a two-lane road, with kids playing games in the roadway all week except Fridays and Sundays because that’s when Camp Lejeune Marines were driving to and from Wilmington and Myrtle Beach. It hardly seems possib ...


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Could Social District Be Here To Stay?

With the results of the test run in hand, organizers now want to ask city officials to make the district designation permanent....


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