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Jun 19, 2025

Francini Inc. Pauses Plans In Blue Clay Business Park

The first company to purchase land inside New Hanover County’s Blue Clay Business Park has temporarily paused its plans for the site. Stone importer and distributor Francini Inc. has put its project on hold, the company’s location mana ...

Jun 18, 2025

Brokers Mark Signs Of Housing Market Slowdown

Almost everything in the local residential real estate market is taking a little longer to sell these days, said Drew Pittman, a broker and Realtor with The Beatty Pittman Team at Intracoastal Realty. That’s likely a sign of a market in tran ...

Jun 17, 2025

Developers, Local Leaders Talk Ongoing Downtown Projects

Wilmington's downtown needs more hotel rooms, retail space and a grocery store, Christina Haley, president and CEO of Wilmington Downtown Inc. (WDI), said Tuesday during the Greater Wilmington Business Journal’s Power Breakfast. A market ...

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Building Forward, Giving Back: Porters Neck Village Finds Purpose in Progress

Posted Jun 3, 2025
At Porters Neck Village, growth isn’t just about adding new residences — it’s about strengthening the connections we share with our broader community.
 
Porters Neck Village is presently re-investing in our community with the addition of 67 new homes.  Phase II of our expansion includes replacing some of our original buildings and adding new flats and...read entire article
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Jun 16, 2025

C-Suite Convo: Connectivity Focus

The start of 2025 marked a change in leadership at Corning’s Wilmington facility. Bryce Dill (left) started as manager of the Wilmington plant for the New York-based company, taking the role over from Russ Lopatka, who is now serving as Corn ...

Jun 16, 2025

Medical Check-in

As the Cape Fear region continues to grow, so do the health care needs of its residents. The area’s largest providers are responding to those needs through expansions in the next couple of years. The MedNorth Health Center, for example, in d ...

Jun 16, 2025

Islands In The Stream: Independent Medical Practices Remain

On the front lines of health care, parts of the year 2021 were “bananas.” That’s one of the ways Wilmington-based physician Umar Bowers describes the hectic nature of that time, a period when the Omicron variant of global pandemi ...

Jun 16, 2025

Beach Baja: K38 Baja Grill Opens Sixth Location

Live.Eat.Surf Restaurant Group celebrated the grand opening of its sixth K38 Baja Grill location last month. The newest location, 100 N. Lake Park Blvd., was also the first restaurant to open in the Proximity development in Carolina Beach that has mo ...

Jun 16, 2025

Behind The Lens

Wilmington-based photographer Brownie Harris recently published his book Photography Retrospective: 1970-2020, a collection of his work over the past 50 years. “The book shows a wide range of subjects – not just well-known persons but ...

Jun 16, 2025

Meeting Supply & Demand

For this year’s Coastal Entrepreneur of the Year, the journey started, as many entrepreneurial journeys do, with an important question. “How do we make sure life-saving therapies get to the people who need them without delay, without c ...

Jun 16, 2025

Trends To Watch: Health Industry

The region is seeing an expansion of medical facilities and services (for more details on specific projects, click here). Meanwhile, medical education, clinical trials and partnerships on health care models are other areas where local health offic ...


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