Sherry Jackson, Author at UPSTATE BUSINESS JOURNAL

Retail and Hospitality

QuikTrip buys West End liquor store property, construction to start in January

The Oklahoma-based convenience store chain QuikTrip bought the 0.31-acre corner lot that housed Mansour’s Liquors for $1.5 million, according to Greenville County property records.

Real Estate

Developer wants to turn historic Hayne School into condos

A Greenville developer wants to convert the historic Hayne School into condominiums.

Economic Development

Greenville’s interim planning and development manager is leaving, while top position remains unfilled

Greenville has been without a planning and development manager since July and now the long-time city employee who has served in the interim is leaving. Bryan Wood, the city’s zoning administrator and interim planning and development manager, has accepted a job as community development director in Perry, Ga., a city about 30 miles south of Macon.

Front Row

Front row: Greenville Design Review Board Urban Panel, November meeting

The City of Greenville Design Review Board has approved with conditions a certificate of appropriateness for a revised project at 55 Camperdown Way. The board granted approval to Wakefield Beasley…

Front Row

Revised 55 Camperdown project approved by Design Review Board

The City of Greenville Design Review Board has approved the revised 55 Camperdown Way project plans, but the approval came with conditions, one of which is have a balcony on the first-floor of office space in order to improve the view line from Main Street to the Liberty Bridge. The first-floor offices are on the second floor and is level with Main Street. The bottom floor, level with Falls Park, will have retail.

Real Estate

Annexation request gives glimpse at redevelopment plan for Woodside Mill

Woodside Cotton Mill could once again become a hub of activity in West Greenville if redevelopment plans included in an annexation petition come to fruition.

Real Estate

Downtown gateway development agreement gets initial approval

Part of the public improvements connected with the NorthPointe development at one of the key gateways leading into downtown will be paid through a Tax Increment Financing district-type of agreement between the city and the developers.

Economic Development

Greenville gets first two rounds of 2017 NCAA men’s basketball championship

Greenville has landed the first and second rounds of the 2017 NCAA men's basketball championships, according to the NCAA's official Twitter account.

Education

Center of Manufacturing Innovation aims to close skills gap

With the ribbon cutting at the Gene Haas Center for Manufacturing Innovation at CU-ICAR, Greenville Technical College officially started a new approach to advanced manufacturing education in Greenville County.

Economic Development

Development is booming, but Greenville’s top planning and development position remains vacant

“That position is very pivotal,” said Steve Navarro, president and CEO of The Furman Co. “They have to understand the city plan, the vision of city leaders and elected officials and interpret that principle of healthy growth to the private sector.”