Wilmington leaders heard new details on Monday about upgrades planned for Greenfield Lake Park’s Hugh Morton Amphitheater. Plans include a new viewing deck alongside the venue’s existing seating and a new recreation space for games, a beer garden and food trucks. Venue operator Live Nation will pay for the $240,000 in upgrades, and officials told the Wilming ...

New Hanover County leaders are set to consider applying for a grant to extend two Cape Fear Public Utility Authority (CFPUA) water lines into a Castle Hayne neighborhood with wells contaminated by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). A resolution of support for an emerging contaminants grant application will go before the New Hanover County Board of Commissioners ...

A White House representative got an earful Friday from leaders of four local projects, but it was good news.   Tom Perez, currently director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs (OIA) and formerly Secretary of Labor during the Obama Administration, visited Wilmington Friday. His mission: to get a first-hand look at how pandemic-related American Res ...

Wilmington-headquartered company nCino is sponsoring the digital dome theater planned for the new Cape Fear Museum. Museum officials refer to what will essentially be a planetarium as a "digital dome theater" because, in addition to astronomy, the nCino-sponsored space will offer 360-degree immersive experiences related to marine biology, environmental science ...

The city of Wilmington closed on its new downtown campus once home to PPD and, later, Thermo Fisher Scientific just over a year ago. Now, city officials are looking to make changes to the building to better accommodate city operations. Since summer 2023, more than 300 city employees have moved in while officials plan for the city’s future in the region’s ...

This week, Wilmington leaders will consider leasing office space in two city-owned buildings to a federal government agency and a Canadian rapid manufacturing firm. Since consolidating city offices into the former Thermo Fisher Scientific building starting last summer, Wilmington officials have worked to sell or lease other underutilized city office buildings downtown. ...

Following months of public discussion and input, New Hanover County leaders voiced support Monday for conservation and a potential land buy on the Cape Fear River’s western bank. The New Hanover County Board of Commissioners unanimously voted Monday to table proposed changes to development guidelines for the western bank outlined in the county’s Comprehensiv ...

A rezoning for a business park proposed near Castle Hayne is moving forward following a vote of support Thursday from the New Hanover County Planning Board. The park, which would include a retail building and four buildings of flex commercial and office space, is proposed on nearly 8 acres at 5000 N. College Road. The 3,600-square-foot retail building is planned closest ...

New Hanover County leaders approved two construction contracts on Monday for the first phase of a project that will bring new water and sewer lines to the county’s northern end. In partnership with Cape Fear Public Utility Authority (CFPUA), New Hanover County plans to install eight miles of new water mains and 10 miles of wastewater mains as part of its Last ...

The Wilmington City Council voted on Tuesday to turn down a $16 million bid for a city-owned office building and two downtown parking decks, as they wait for updated property appraisals.  City leaders, however, declared one of the properties – a parking deck at 114 N. Second St. – as surplus property and asked staff to take a closer look at downtown par ...