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Nov 3, 2026

Liberty Health, Novant Propose Expansions At Area Facilities

Liberty Health and Novant Health have filed applications for expansion at existing regional facilities.  As part of its plan to expand in Brunswick County, Novant Health has applied to add 18 acute care beds at its Novant Health Brunswick Med ...

Nov 3, 2026

Major Projects Hit Milestones At ILM, Including Parking Garage, Hotel

At Wilmington International Airport (ILM), several major projects, including the construction of a parking garage, a terminal expansion and an airport hotel, are hitting key milestones. Many of the projects are outlined in the airport’s $300 ...

Nov 2, 2026

NextBoat Secures Up To $7.2M In Debt Financing

Wilmington-headquartered NextBoat, a pre-owned boat company formerly known as Off the Hook Yachts, has secured up to $7.2 million in debt financing to support its boat inventory.  According to SEC filings from late October, the financing incl ...

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Hospitality M&A: Bring HR Into the Discovery Process, Not the Closing Dinner 

Posted Oct 6, 2026

The following column was contributed by Jim Needell, SPHR, SHRM-SCP.

In most restaurant and hotel mergers and acquisitions, HR arrives late. Sometimes it's the week before signing, when someone realizes no one has looked at the employee files. Sometimes it's after close, when the integration team opens the personnel records and finds problems that were corre...read entire article

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Nov 2, 2026

Liberty Health Acquires ECU Health’s Home Health, Hospice Unit

Wilmington-headquartered Liberty Home Care and Hospice has completed its acquisition of ECU Health’s home health and hospice division.  ECU Health announced in March that it had entered into an agreement to sell its home health and hosp ...

Nov 2, 2026

UNCW Buys Apartments Off Randall Parkway For More Than $16M

The University of North Carolina Wilmington recently purchased Plato’s Lofts, a 54-unit apartment building off Randall Parkway, for more than $16 million. UNCW Corporation II Randall Parkway LLC completed the acquisition last week, according ...

Oct 30, 2026

Canapi Ventures Bets On The Future Of Fintech

Canapi Ventures, a fintech venture capital firm investing in early- to growth-stage startups with an office on Live Oak Bank’s Wilmington campus, is nearing the end of deploying its $750 million second fund, with about $150 million remaining.&n ...

Oct 30, 2026

Report: Brunswick Co. Home Sales Exceed $2.5B For The Year So Far

Brunswick County’s residential real estate market recorded its strongest September sales since 2020, with 579 homes sold and year-to-date sales volume exceeding $2.56 billion, according to a report released Thursday. Year-to-date through Sep ...

Oct 29, 2026

OPINION: Setting The Record Straight On Cape Fear's Water

Television ads and mailers from Sen. Michael Lee’s opponent and outside groups say he sponsored a bill to roll back water contamination testing. That is not true. We know because we were there. Between us we spent nearly 40 years on the Wilm ...

Oct 29, 2026

Investor Roadshow Highlights Wilmington's Startup Scene

The Virginia-based Lighthouse Network hosted its first investor roadshow in Wilmington this week, in collaboration with Idea Fund Partners, Launch Chapel Hill and the Regional Accelerator and Mentoring Program (RAMP).  The event, held&nb ...

Oct 29, 2026

Public Comment Opens On Local Transportation Priorities

A public comment period is underway as part of a process that could help determine which local transportation projects receive funding in the coming years. They include the estimated $1.63 billion Cape Fear Crossing, a potentially tolled bridge south ...


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