Construction started this summer on the YMCA of Southeastern North Carolina's $15 million midtown expansion. The project will include transforming the midtown location's existing 16,000-square-foot facility at 709 George Anderson Drive into a 48,000-square-foot, full-service community wellness center with an eight-lane pool and other features. Crews began sit ...

The Live Oak Climber is one of the features for children and families at the new Cape Fear Museum of History & Science, drawing attention to live oak trees as one of the state’s most famous natural features. The museum’s new three-story facility at 230 Grace St. opened in August. “We’re basically doubling our exhibit space ... and we are trip ...

Last month, the N.C. Department of Commerce released visitor spending data. In Pender County, we experienced a slight increase in visitor spending. Visitor spending impacts our economy. The dollars visitors spend on lodging, dining and entertainment return significant tax revenue to our local economy, provide thousands of jobs and support tourism-related businesses. ...

North Carolina’s labor market has performed well. As of June, total nonfarm employment in the state stood 11.3% above its pre-pandemic level, a performance that ranks 7th among all states. That is a strong number by any standard, and the local story: Wilmington’s is even stronger, but slightly more complicated. Wilmington has consistently outpaced North C ...

Assuming the role of CEO of the YWCA Lower Cape Fear is a full-circle moment for Jhaniqua Palmer, who joined the organization in 2019 as coordinator of its Grandparent Support Network. Now, nearly eight years after first walking through the doors of the Wilmington organization, Palmer has returned to lead it into its next chapter. What made you want to take the YWCA Lower ...

As a young girl, homemade biscuits and gravy was one of the first dishes that Khristen Hunter’s mom, Patty, taught her to cook. Last December, Hunter’s lifelong love of cooking and a $1 million prize package she received through the nationwide Own Your Own competition after the original winner withdrew led to Patty’s Place. She was able to create the m ...

Two Wilmington-rooted companies are raising the stakes on sustainability. Both Atlantic Packaging, a packaging solutions firm, and Green Assets, a land management and consulting firm, are embracing strategies that integrate sustainability directly into their business models. Beyond a one-time solution, each firm is betting on the eventual evolution of each industry & ...

When Built Environments relocated to Wilmington, the firm’s partners weren’t looking for the lazy tranquility one hopes for when on vacation. Instead, they sought sultry heat. They wanted to understand whipping coastal winds and punishing precipitation – the kind that tropical storms produce. That’s because how materials degrade can reveal a lot ...

Built alongside the runway at Wilmington International Airport, Frontier Scientific Solutions’ 530,000-square-foot North American headquarters building serves as a hub for the company’s pharmaceutical logistics operations. Frontier Scientific, which provides temperature-controlled storage and transportation for the life sciences sector, announced its plans f ...

Two vessels arriving in Wilmington this fall could help shape the next generation of marine research and technology training at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and Cape Fear Community College. The newly built R/V (Research Vessel) Osprey, which arrived at UNCW’s Center for Marine Science in early September, replaces the R/V Cape Fear. At CFCC, a new ve ...