$68 million investment will create 1,031 jobs, officials say.

March means Madness, and a great time to be a college basketball fan. But the NCAA says fewer than 2 percent of NCAA student-athletes go on to be professional athletes. In reality, the organization says, most student-athletes depend on academics to prepare them for life after college.

It is safe to say there will always be brick-and-mortar businesses. Some companies must have a physical presence due to their offerings. In other cases, an owner may simply prefer to have a physical business location.

The cost-of-living crisis is taking its toll on businesses. Now, more than ever, you should start thinking about ways to reduce your business costs. One of the biggest business expenses is rent, and it doesn’t look like it’s getting any cheaper. According to Statista, industrial and office rents are expected to grow the most between 2022 and 2026.

It’s a story that brings to mind the unlikely Jamaican bobsledders of the 1988 Winter Olympics in Alberta, Canada: How did a South Carolina golf course designer become obsessed with the ice sport of curling, eventually coming to be the president of the World Curling Federation?

Patrick Monsiváis confesses that the idea to launch his own business sprang from being a helicopter parent to his infant daughter. He wanted his baby to have the best start in life, he says, so he gave her iron supplements. But she hated the taste and refused to take it, he says.

U.S. News & World Report has released its rankings of the top hospitals in the country, as well as each state and metro area’s best health care facilities. For South Carolina, the magazine evaluated 89 hospitals, eight of which made its list of the best. The MUSC Health-University Medical Center tops the list for the Palmetto State.

Columbia Chamber of Commerce Gives Out 9th Annual Columbia Impact Awards on March 8

When Dr. Laura Valleni and her daughter moved to the BullStreet District in May of 2019, she had a hard time imagining what was coming, but she still wanted to be a part of it. “A friend of mine was the first person to purchase a home at TownPark at BullStreet, and she and her daughter were the only two people living in the entire BullStreet District, which I found a bit unsettling. But as I saw the plans and construction underway, the more I thought about this space, the more I wanted to be a part of it,” Valleni said. So she and her daughter became the third family to move into TownPark, the district’s first residential project, located just off Calhoun Street.

New $2 billion U.S. Manufacturing Facility Planned Near Columbia, SC

Few, if any, besides himself and perhaps his family and closest advisers, likely knew in December that former South Carolina Gov. David Beasley would resign as executive director of the World Food Programme, the world’s largest humanitarian organization.

Beneath the veneer of the shiny new visage of our vibrant city lies an older body of resolve. Greenville is made of the good old stuff that cracks but does not crumble. While historians differ on the origins of our place name, the most inviting argument is that Greenville named itself by virtue of the hue of its verdant landscape.

Change is coming from an economic perspective. Specifically, there is little doubt that the U.S., and probably the world, will be in a recession by the end of the first quarter of 2023. Everyone is aware of the tech industries’ recent announcements of significant job reductions, including Amazon’s announced reduction of approximately 10,000 jobs, Meta downsizing by more than 11,000 employees, and Twitter’s reduction of nearly half of its employees. However, other recent layoffs have occurred at Coinbase, Netflix, Shopify, Stripe, and Spotify.

They are scenarios that national health and security experts have been contemplating for years. A deadly virus crosses from animal to human triggering another pandemic. A dangerous microorganism accidentally escapes from a research lab to infect a population.

With a chance that the state and the nation could slip into a recession sometime in 2023, South Carolina’s economy continues to do well and any impact is expected to be mild. Meanwhile, one of the biggest worries for South Carolina employers in 2023 is finding workers.

Leader in FDA-approved low level laser technology expands life sciences ecosystem, investing $6.7 million in new operations here