What’s inside the Upstate’s self-storage boom?
If you’ve been around Greenville for more than a few years, you’ve heard of — or heard — Marty Harrison, half of the beloved pop duo Ralph & Marty. These…
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BASF CHEMISTRY CATALYSTS: Elba Lizardi, Deborah McKitten and Theresa Vaughn
Taken together, the three executives manage nearly 600 people who make chemicals used in everything from refrigerators to boats, toothpaste to detergents, water treatment to medical masks. They are a…
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Lockheed Martin’s Fighting Falcon
Today, Bahrain, Bulgaria, Morocco, Slovakia and Taiwan are among Lockheed Martin Corp.’s newest customers for the defense contractor’s venerable Fighting Falcon, built right here in Greenville.
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Tasty donation cooks up Greenville Tech’s new culinary campus
JaJa Dumas first considered going into the military. With his mother’s prodding, though, he decided to attend Greenville Technical College, where he began taking culinary classes. Now, the 19-year-old from…
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Fluor and Greenville Tech Foundation’s ‘circle of giving’ focuses on workforce development
Since 2013, Fluor Foundation grants have supported, among other scholarships across multiple disciplines, more than 100 veterans in Greenville Tech’s Quick Jobs for Veterans program.
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Milestone: Greenville’s Rush Wilson has been suiting up clothes-minded men for 70 years
James Rush Wilson Jr. opened his namesake store in 1950 in Davidson, North Carolina.
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Greenville Tech’s Quick Jobs program helps workers find their future — quickly
Julia Lezcano, a self-described “missionary’s kid from South America,” arrived in the Upstate a decade ago with nothing but two suitcases. Now 43 and her family’s sole provider, she sells…
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If there’s some muscle in your hedge fund, look for one of these Upstate firms behind it
One broiling summer day, the 30-something owner of a landscaping business was trimming hedges when he realized he wasn’t getting any younger. Now, six years after selling his landscaping business,…
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An unlikely partnership leads to innovative success for development firm LyonJay
Company has a combined experience building, developing, managing or investing in tens of thousands of units worth $5 billion across 11 states
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Hard money lenders count on big returns in the fix-and-flip trenches
It wasn’t all that long ago that John Thompson faced enemy fire in Ramadi, Iraq, scene of one of the war’s fiercest battles. Today, he sits in his office overlooking…
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