Guy C. Lee Building Materials, a long-standing building supply company in North Carolina has purchased one of Wilmington’s oldest family-owned businesses, E.W. Godwin’s Sons Lumber Co.   The buyout is a new step for both businesses and allows Smithfield-headquartered Guy C. Lee to fully integrate into the Wilmington market while still maintaining nearby ...

Last month, Absolute Collision purchased three out of four of Wilmington-based Register’s Auto Collision's auto repair shops.  Register’s Auto Collision opened in Wilmington in 1975 at 128 Harley Road. The company, operated by Steve Register, who took over the business from his father, also has a location in Hampstead at 15744 U.S. Hwy. 17. It opene ...

Last month, O2 Fitness closed its flagship Wilmington gym in Mayfaire, then earlier this month, shut the doors at its Porters Neck location for good.  Around 2018, the company had five separate locations operating in Wilmington and roughly 15,000 members. Now, it’s down to just two locations but is planning to open a third within the next couple of years.&nbs ...

A prominent think tank that annually ranks economic growth in American cities has placed Wilmington in the 21st spot. Wilmington’s new ranking puts the growing city ahead of several urban hubs officials often compare it to when measuring performance indicators. The Milken Institute published its 2022 best-performing cities analysis Monday, which charts economic gr ...

As Wilmington International Airport (ILM) continues its travel-related expansion plans, airport officials are looking to maximize use of the land that's left on the airport’s home base for business purposes.  At last week’s New Hanover County Airport Authority meeting, board members gave staff the direction to formulate a request for qualifications ...

The following are summaries of the top 10 most-read stories Greater Wilmington Business Journal online stories in 2021, the top spot taken by a WilmingtonBiz Magazine story about the Battleship North Carolina.   1. Ship Shape: Rebuilding the Battleship In 2009, the U.S. Navy gave two directives: either make plans to scrap the USS North Carolina or set out to rest ...

An Open Letter to our City and County Leaders,   Last Friday, County Commissioners met to discuss ways to stop the violence in Wilmington, and I support them in their effort. Many city leaders attended, including law enforcement, the district attorney’s office, the judicial branch, and others. In the meeting, the Commissioners unanimously agreed to allocate th ...

A local attorney has co-founded a practice focused on adoption and collaborative family law. Ashley Michael (right) of Wilmington has teamed up with Ashley-Nicole Russell of Beaufort, North Carolina, to establish Michael & Russell PLLC. Michael will handle both adoption and collaborative family law cases, while Russell – who maintains offices in Beaufort, Gree ...

Long before the N.C. Azalea Festival blossomed, another plant marked the start of spring in the Wilmington area: strawberries. The plant’s juicy fruit not only was popular at dinner tables, strawberries were part of a thriving local business known as truck-farming. Instead of being sold only in local markets, strawberries and crops such as lettuce, cabbage and mel ...

Amber Smith and Andrew Zel­din meet people in their 60s who have continued working past retirement age for a variety of reasons.   “We have some folks that have been fortunate enough to have saved and been able to plan for their retirement, and then we have some individuals that unfortunately for whatever life circumstances, they ei­ther weren’t ...