The new owners of high-profile property near Wrightsville Beach have submitted some of their preliminary site plans to the city of Wilmington. Haven at The Galleria, 6730-6800 Wrightsville Ave., could be a mixed-use development with hundreds of multifamily units and some commercial space, the plans indicate. Haven at Galleria LLC, an affiliate of South Carolina- ...

DC Lanier of Surf City loved camping, eventually using his entrepreneurial spirit to create a family endeavor around his favorite pastime. Camping “was definitely in his blood,” said Donna Lanier, one of four children of DC and Wilma Lanier. “We traveled everywhere with a tent. We had jaunts to Florida all the time and the mountains. And there were six ...

The owners of a growing pet services business recently completed construction on a new headquarters building in Scotts Hill, merging two locations into one. Pawville owners Phil Miller and his wife, Amanda Miller, founded their company by converting a 5,000-square-foot pet store in Citrus County, Florida, into a pet boarding and grooming facility they opened in 2007. ...

Market factors are impacting commercial development in the Wilmington area, including the potential transformation of the downtown block owned by New Hanover County. Called Project Grace, previous plans for the property's redevelopment stumbled in September when the Local Government Commission did not approve a financing arrangement for a new county l ...

The first component to go up in a major mixed-use project along Military Cutoff and Eastwood Roads in Wilmington will be rental dwellings, one of the developers said recently. “I think it will be the first quarter of the coming years when we’ll actually break ground and go vertical on the apartments,” said Jason Swain, of Wilmington-based developm ...

Officials with an organization that was aiming to raise $16 million to buy more than 80 acres on Eagles Island announced Tuesday that they've terminated their contract to buy the property. The Chape Hill-based nonprofit Unique Places to Save issued a press release Tuesday afternoon, announcing the decision and explaining that it came after failing to secure a grant ...

A new business park is under construction in Leland, with four tenants already solidified.  The Ploof Road Business Park has netted Mannkind Brewing Co., Eternal Fitness, Streets & Sons Tire and Auto Repair and Rager Heating & Cooler as its first tenants, according to commercial broker Laurence Nadeau with Creative Commercial Properties.  Plans call ...

Beer distributor Adams Beverages is in the midst of a relocation and expansion to a new facility being constructed in the Leland Innovation Park.  Crews broke ground this summer on the planned 114,000-square-foot facility fronting Mercantile Drive.  With an end goal of May 2023, Adams Beverages officials hope to move out of the company’s space off Nor ...

Set to soon take over what’s long been operated as a beer distribution warehouse, Frontier Scientific Solutions is introducing the region to a service that’s currently not locally available: temperature-controlled storage for the life sciences sector.  Within the coming weeks, the new firm expects to welcome its first pharmaceutical shipment at 805 N. 2 ...

The pending purchase of Cape Fear Community College’s planned expanded nursing and allied health facility downtown was maneuvered discreetly, in a manner to ensure the price would remain fair, those involved in the deal say.  Brian Eckel, co-founder of Cape Fear Commercial, said that as he negotiated the contract through his special purpose entity, Cisco Acqu ...