Gabrielle Grace Smith, Author at UPSTATE BUSINESS JOURNAL

On the Move: Aug. 31, 2018

CERTIFIED Misty Taylor Has earned the Certified Relocation Professional designation through the workforce-mobility association Worldwide ERC. Taylor is the relocation manager of Berkshire Hathaway Home Services C. Dan Joyner, Realtors.…

Retail and Hospitality

Auro Hotels builds team for new, dual-branded downtown hotel

Auro Hotels has hired Jonathan Brashier as general manager for Greenville’s new, dual-branded hotel, Residence Inn/SpringHill Suites. Brashier brings more than 20 years of experience in hotel management and previously…

Material Sciences Corp. invests $2.7M to open second Upstate facility

Material Sciences Corp. is expanding its Greenville County operation with a second facility at 101 Pelham Davis Circle. The $2.7 million capital investment for the 32,000-square-foot location is projected to create…

On the Move

On the Move: August 17, 2018

Play-by-play of Upstate careers

Economic Development

The Hiring Group makes Inc. magazine’s fastest-growing private companies list

The Hiring Group, a technical staffing and recruiting firm with offices in Greenville and Atlanta, has been ranked No. 130 on the 2018 Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies…

Profiles

Scott Green finds unreached labor pool to fill local job market

The idea Upstate entrepreneur Scott Green ran a successful staffing agency for about five years. Eventually, Green sold his agency and brainstormed for his next business endeavor. “I started the…

Real Estate

UC Funds secures $6.85 million financing for Wyndham Garden Greenville

UC Funds has secured a $6.85 million first mortgage loan for the refinance of the 139-room, 2.2-acre Wyndham Garden Greenville hotel within 3 miles of the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport (GSP). …

Real Estate

CBRE Capital Markets secures $8.73 million financing for Mayfair Lofts in Spartanburg

Through CBRE’s Federal Housing Administration lending platform, the loan is being funded through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Section 223(f) mortgage insurance program providing a 35-year, fully amortizing, fixed rate and non-recourse loan structure.

Commercial real estate in the Upstate: Pick a number, any number

For our quarterly commercial real estate issue, the Upstate Business Journal asked local real-estate experts to choose a statistic in the Upstate market that has caught their attention. Here are their responses.

Real Estate

Willlow Creek Partners buys Verdae apartments for $19M

Graycliff Capital Partners LLC in June announced the sale of Azalea Hill Apartment Homes for $19 million. Located off Verdae Boulevard, Azalea Hill offers views of the Verdae Golf Course and…