ANDY OWENS PROFILE

Hot Properties highlights recently sold or leased commercial properties in the Charleston region. Send in your transactions using our online form. Bradley Baker, Joseph Tecklenburg of Clement, Crawford & Thornhill represented the ... Read More

A matching funds program to move South Carolina companies into commercialization of products has launched in the Palmetto State. The Small Business Technology Transfer Grants are administered through the S.C. Commerce Department&rsquo... Read More

We’re always looking for a reason to talk about college football, especially after the year we’re having. We need a distraction from things like vaccination rates, major storms and who is or isn't on quarantine. ... Read More

Hot Properties highlights recently sold or leased commercial properties in the Charleston region. Send in your transactions using our online form. Leslie Fellabom, Chris Fraser, CCIM, and Ashley Jackrel, CCIM, of Avison Young Sou... Read More

The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded a $1.3 million grant to the S.C. Ports Authority to help support efforts to use electricy and energy-efficient trucks to replace diesel-powered vehicles. The EPA’s Diesel... Read More

  Hot Properties highlights recently sold or leased commercial properties in the Charleston region. Send in your transactions using our online form. Brian Connolly of JLL represented the sublessee in the sublease of 80,000... Read More

Hot Properties highlights recently sold or leased commercial properties in the Charleston region. Send in your transactions using our online form. Ashley Jackrel, CCIM, Chris Fraser, CCIM, and Leslie Fellabom of Avison Young Sout... Read More

The Mount Pleasant Chamber of Commerce is holding the organization’s Business and Community Expo in late September as an in-person event, the chamber said in a news release.  The event will be held in partner... Read More

A federal grand jury has handed down a 21-count indictment against two Lowcountry hotel workers, charging them with wire fraud and conspiracy, the U.S. attorney’s office in Columbia said.  Star Bark... Read More

Charleston has moved the city back to Phase III on its matrix of COVID measures, tightening protocols based on a rise in cases from the coronavirus pandemic. A special council meeting to discuss the change and answer questions ab... Read More

A financial services investment company based in New York has opened an office in the Lowcountry, the company said in a news release. Gamco Investors Inc., a publicly traded company, opened an asset management division office in ... Read More

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Hot Properties highlights recently sold or leased commercial properties in the Charleston region. Send in your transactions using our online form. Keith Mayfield of Twin Rivers Capital LLC represented the landlord, CRS Associate LLC a... Read More

The newly name Credit One Stadium on Daniel Island has hit a construction milestone with a topping out ceremony by the workers and construction managers from Choate Construction. A topping out is a moment during a constructio... Read More

Hot Properties highlights recently sold or leased commercial properties in the Charleston region. Send in your transactions using our online form. Bradley Baker and Joseph Tecklenburg of Clement, Crawford & Thornhill represented t... Read More

Hot Properties highlights recently sold or leased commercial properties in the Charleston region. Send in your transactions using our online form. Joe Keenan and Trad Dyches of Palmetto Commercial Properties LLC represented the seller... Read More

The Charleston Regional Business Journal announces the 2021 class of Forty Under 40 honorees today. Each year, the Business Journal and its sponsors and partners recognize the Forty Under 40 during a special event and awards cere... Read More

A Charleston-based political campaign and digital marketing agency has named the company’s president to the role of managing partner, the company said in a news release. Push Digital, which has offices in Charleston, Columbia an... Read More

Hot Properties highlights recently sold or leased commercial properties in the Charleston region. Send in your transactions using our online form. Chris Dion, Morrow Boggs of Belk Lucy represented the landlord in the lease of 2,760 sq... Read More

Hot Properties highlights recently sold or leased commercial properties in the Charleston region. Send in your transactions using our online form. Alan Bolduc, Courtney Marous, Kathleen Isola, Ryan Young of Avison Young represented th... Read More

A Charleston-based hydroponics company has expanded to Atlanta as part of a growth plan that puts the company’s container farms near food distributors. Vertical Roots, which is an indoor, hydroponic container farm company that c... Read More

States with robust fireworks markets Rankings determined by dollar value of fireworks imports into the state, divided by population. Rank Per capita Imports 1. Missouri $42,283,229 ... Read More

A company that serves medical diagnostic providers with billing, insurance fulfillment and other services is opening operations on Daniel Island in Berkeley County. XIFIN, which has customers and clients nationwide, said the company p... Read More

A Hanahan regional ambulance provider, MedTrust Holdings Inc., has named Lenna Macdonald as the company’s new CEO. Macdonald will take over for Josh Watts, who will continue as an officer of the company and a board member, the c... Read More

Hot Properties highlights recently sold or leased commercial properties in the Charleston region. Send in your transactions using our online form. Eddie Hughes of Beach Commercial, a division of The Beach Co., represented the landlord... Read More

Independent business advocacy group Lowcountry Local First has launched a podcast, focusing on in-depth conversations with local businesses in the Charleston area.  The first episode of Small Talks, Big I... Read More

Hot Properties highlights recently sold or leased commercial properties in the Charleston region. Send in your transactions using our online form. Keith Mayfield of Twin Rivers Capital LLC represented the landlord, Rays Flooring LLC, ... Read More

Hot Properties highlights recently sold or leased commercial properties in the Charleston region. Send in your transactions using our online form. Vitré Ravenel Stephens and Craig Massey of Avison Young - South Carolina Inc. re... Read More

Astronaut Shane Kimbrough (left) took this photo of the Charleston peninsula, Mount Pleasant, West Ashley and North Charleston from 250 miles above the Earth during a recent fly over by the International Space Station. He took... Read More

Hot Properties highlights recently sold or leased commercial properties in the Charleston region. Send in your transactions using our online form. Morrow Boggs, Chris Dion of Belk Lucy represented the seller in the sale of multi-... Read More

The West Ashley Farmers Market resumed operation this week with an “essentials-only” format from 3-7 p.m. on Wednesdays. The market will continue every Wednesday through Oct. 27 at Ackerman Park, 55 Sycamore Ave.... Read More

Mount Pleasant Waterworks is coordinating a lane closure that will affect the Ben Sawyer Boulevard while a water main is pulled below the Intracoastal Waterway next week. The lane closure will happen May 25 before next Tuesd... Read More

Hot Properties highlights recently sold or leased commercial properties in the Charleston region. Send in your transactions using our online form. Paul Kelton of Matt O’Neill Real Estate represented the tenant, Sushi King, in th... Read More

BridgeTower Media has named Rick Jenkins group publisher for SC Biz News. Jenkins formerly served as the publisher for GSA Business Report in the Upstate and will now oversee all operations for the statewide business-to-business media... Read More

Karen Rhett, a 58-year-old Mount Pleasant resident, pleaded guilty in federal court to stealing more than $1 million from her former employer, Simmons Realty Co. Acting U.S. Attorney M. Rhett DeHart said Rhett served as the Charleston... Read More

SC Biz News CEO and Group Publisher Grady Johnson is leaving the business he helped found after 26 years. An entrepreneur who owned several businesses before joining the Charleston Regional Business Journal in 1995 with founder B... Read More

Allegiance Flag Supply, the North Charleston company that produces high-quality flags using all American labor and manufacturers, received some recognition in an interview on Fox News recently. (see video below) We spent some time at ... Read More

This week, six large-scale utility companies, including two operating in South Carolina, said they are banding together to address the electric vehicle infrastructure problem. When you buy a car that burns gas or compresses diesel, fi... Read More

The recent tragic incident involving Tiger Woods this week brought back a memory from the 2012 PGA Championship when our photographer, Leslie Burden, got up before dawn to get a photo of Woods going through a practice round. It wasn... Read More

Lowcountry Local First opened a new HQ, including more than 5,000 square feet of coworking space on Summerville Avenue in Charleston late last week. The location in the Lumberyard commercial development expands and modernize... Read More

Most of the companies receiving emergency loans to retain jobs in South Carolina in the early days of the pandemic will qualify for a streamlined forgiveness program. That could mean more than $76 million would not have to be paid bac... Read More

Gov. Henry McMaster indicated during a military commanders briefing Thursday that he would lift restaurant occupancy restrictions that have been in place since early August. “We’re going to remove the limitations on restau... Read More

North Charleston firefighters and Charleston County EMS responded to a commercial structure fire at a uniform company in North Charleston this morning. There were no injuries, the fire department said in a news release, and the fi... Read More

A regional developer said while the market for larger office space might struggle during the coronavirus pandemic, the appetite for smaller square footage could see a resurgence. Jeff Baxter, a partner in Cityvolve, said interest ... Read More

Goose Creek launched an economic development quest last year that included finding a food and beverage tenant for the city’s old fire station building. Now, the city has announced that effort is moving forward with a new brewery... Read More

The president of the S.C. Craft Distillers Guild told the S.C. congressional delegation that without increased federal help to deal with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, many distilleries in the state could be facing closure. I... Read More

Congress is considering a simplified process for forgiveness of Paycheck Protection Program loans, especially smaller loans, the CEO of the S.C. Bankers Association said. Across South Carolina, 63,000 businesses received federally bac... Read More

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The Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge opened 15 years ago this week, on July 14, 2005. As anniversaries go, 15 years isn’t one of those milestones that gets celebrated like Charleston’s 350th, but 15 years ago was a significant m... Read More

The latest chapter in a dispute over church property between the national Episcopal Church and a group of breakaway churches has been filed by a circuit court judge in Dorchester County. The dispute over ownership of church proper... Read More

What’s next for 35 Prioleau St.? One-hundred eighty years before 35 Prioleau St. in Charleston became the Harbour Club, the building served as offices and warehouse space for the city’s working waterfront. ... Read More

The Charleston Museum has reopened with two new exhibits, as well as hourly tours of the Joseph Manigault House, which began Monday. The Heyward-Washington House is set to reopen June 15. The museum recently received a bridge gran... Read More

Responding to questions from businesses already struggling to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, Charleston and Charleston County officials said they took their lead from law enforcement on the timing of multiple days of curfews.... Read More

Windows and doors were boarded up at businesses across the Lowcountry on Sunday, a day after civil unrest in downtown Charleston, sparked by protests after George Floyd, an unarmed black man, died in police custody in Minneapolis. ... Read More

Jason Ward, president of Landmark Enterprises, said diversification has helped the portfolio developer and commercial real estate company weather some of the COVID-19 fallout in recent weeks. Ward said the pandemic, and its requir... Read More

As offices and retail businesses closed in waves while COVID-19 took hold across the Lowcountry, one thing soon became clear: Construction sites were not closing down. Part of that is the essential nature of the business sector, e... Read More

Coping with COVID SC Biz News is speaking with small businesses and community leaders about the impact of the new coronavirus on business and industry, and how this is changing how they operate. Contact Andy Owens, aowens@scbiznews.c... Read More

Coping with COVID SC Biz News is speaking with small businesses and community leaders about the impact of the new coronavirus on business and industry, and how this is changing how they operate. Contact Andy Owens, aowens@scbiznews... Read More

COVID-19 has put a business twist on a scam that typically gets used against homeowners during natural disasters. The scam goes like this: Someone calls or emails you and says they’re from the electric utility company and if you... Read More

Coping with COVID SC Biz News is speaking with small businesses and community leaders about the impact of the new coronavirus on business and industry, and how this is changing how they operate. Contact Andy Owens, aowens@scbiznews.c... Read More

Coping with COVID SC Biz News is speaking with small businesses and community leaders about the impact of the new coronavirus on business and industry, and how this is changing how they operate. Contact Andy Owens, aowens@scbizn... Read More

Coping with COVID SC Biz News is speaking with small businesses and community leaders about the impact of the new coronavirus on business and industry, and how this is changing how they operate. Contact Andy Owens, aowens@scbizn... Read More

Coping with COVID: SC Biz News is speaking with small businesses and community leaders about the impact of the new coronavirus on business and industry, and how this is changing how they operate. Contact Andy Owens, aowens@scbiz... Read More

Coping with COVID: SC Biz News is speaking with small businesses and community leaders about the impact of the new coronavirus on business and industry, and how this is changing how they operate. Contact Andy Owens, aowens@scbiz... Read More

Hurricane Dorian was a shared experience for residents and businesses of the Lowcountry, with or without electricity, as it spun off the coast as a Category 3 hurricane and raked the area with wave after wave of wind this morning. ... Read More

Kion North America in Summerville has received its largest industrial truck order in the company’s history from a chain of home improvement stores headquartered in Wisconsin. Kion North America will manufacture and supply Me... Read More

Heritage Trust Federal Credit Union's board of directors has named Jason S. Lee as the financial institution's new president and chief operating officer. Lee replaces CEO Jim McDaniel, who worked for Heritage Trust for 22 year... Read More

Four transactions totaling more than $14 million in downtown Charleston have moved 31,635 square feet of retail and office space to a Charlotte investment firm. Asana Partners paid $14.4 million for three buildings and a portion of a ... Read More

The Columbia Regional Business Report and GSA Business Report won top honors for journalism excellence during an annual conference of business-to-business publishers over the weekend in Atlanta. Hundreds of publishers attended the thr... Read More

Businesses and residents have collected more than $30 million in incentives from South Carolina’s utilities for launching solar projects since 2014. That’s when a law went into effect allowing privately owned solar operati... Read More

As Columbia’s historic communities and neighborhoods continue to attract redevelopment, industry leaders think that growth could serve as connective tissue linking the region’s economy. A four-person panel of developers, a... Read More

Businesses and residents have collected more than $30 million in incentives from South Carolina’s utilities for launching solar projects since 2014. That’s when the law went into effect allowing privately owned solar o... Read More