MOLLY HULSEY PROFILE

According to the U.S. Travel Association, at least 50% of all travel-supported jobs will disappear by December if federal aid doesn’t come into the equation. By no means has Greenville remained immune to the staggering losses fi... Read More

The S.C. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Gov. Henry McMaster’s $32 million tuition grant program for private school students violates the state constitution. “We hold the governor’s decision constitutes the use of... Read More

Welding projects don’t always clean up easily, and even scrap metal can be a commodity at times. Especially for beginners in the first stages of the learning process. So Piedmont Technical College’s William H. “Billy... Read More

Despite 2020 being a devastating year for the state’s tourism industry, it also marks a bright spot for Charleston and Greenville’s staying power in the small city travel market. More than 715,000 Conde Nast Traveler reade... Read More

As Hire Dynamics gears up for a nationwide drive-thru and walk-up hiring event, Upstate Regional Manager Laura Moody notes that all of the area’s major auto and textiles manufacturers are seeking talent. While smaller companies ... Read More

Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, digital banking had been on the rise. And this could not be more true after the marketplace made the online leap en mass this spring. Representatives at Ohio-based Fifth-Third Bank note that at least... Read More

Richard Schweitzer just wanted to go home when he and his wife Linda almost passed the exit for Greenville on a drizzly Autumn night more than 13 years ago. Home then was Tennessee. In the past, New York. Over the years, the coup... Read More

As Greenville prepares to release plans for the extension of the Swamp Rabbit Trail to the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research at an open house Thursday, Mauldin is taking steps toward installing its own leg o... Read More

When Table 301 Restaurant Group owner Carl Sobocinski got dressed and left his home for the opening soiree of Greenville’s Euphoria festival, he had no idea that he would return with the state’s highest civilian honor. Six... Read More

Greenville’s culinary showcase Euphoria launched Thursday night with close-knit dinners at the Fork & Plough, Hotel Domestique’s Restaurant 17 and Avenue and will conclude with a Sunday dinner at The Barn at Sitton Hill F... Read More

One of downtown Spartanburg’s newest tenants opened just in time for patrons to try a hand at this year’s World Axe Throwing League competitions. Craft Axe Throwing’s eighth location opened in the Hub City a little o... Read More

West Greenville’s 800,000-square-foot historical redevelopment project is set to receive $16.5 million in New Markets Tax Credits for the completion of its $19 million commercial phase, in conjunction with historic and S.C. mill ta... Read More

You won’t see mailboxes at the Victorian-porched homes in the Oconee mill village of Newry. To pick up bills and Christmas cards, residents visit the post office instead, housed beside a bygone mercantile store, to check bot... Read More

Southeastern tech company DC Blox will build a Tier III data center, its fifth across four states, in Greenville’s Global Business Park with an expected investment of more than $200 million. Doors are set to open at the center&r... Read More

Editor's note: The headline on the previous version of this story misidentified the company involved. Academy Sports and Outdoors donated the shoes. The headline has been updated. As summer came to a close, Diana Watson, chie... Read More

As one of seven new women’s business centers across the country opened its doors for the first time in Greenville, national and local business leaders gathered on Sept. 4 onsite to celebrate the state’s female entrepreneurs. ... Read More

By the time the Spartanburg Area Chamber of Commerce closed its 2020 Annual Celebration, it no longer existed. Now called the OneSpartanburg Inc., the newly structured and focused organization includes the Spartanburg Convention &... Read More

Over one month after the release of a legislative audit critiquing the Commerce Department for its lack of oversight and transparency with money funding economic development projects, the agency has adopted some recommendations as state ... Read More

The country’s economic rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic may not be “V-shaped,” but investment in the Upstate, especially in medical equipment and biopharmaceutical companies, has picked up over the summer, regional ec... Read More

A recent report (.pdf) released by the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers highlighted that the tax cuts extended to 8,000 low-income communities designated as opportunity zones through legislation drafted by Sen. Tim Scott ... Read More

The dispute over Gov. Henry McMaster’s private school grant program will be heard by state Supreme Court justices on Sept. 18 after an Orangeburg judge halted the grants on July 22. “I think that’s a good place for i... Read More

The Department of Defense this week announced a $62 billion 10-year contract with Lockheed Martin Corp. for the production of 90 F-16 fighter jets to be built at the aerospace company’s Greenville location. The order is exp... Read More

As the dispute over the use of COVID-19 funding for private school tuition awaits potential S.C. Supreme Court review, both parties agree that the question boils down to whether the state-allocated grants are used as a direct or indirect... Read More

Tom O’Hanlan, BookerLAB, Liberty Spotlighted by Pink Floyd to the Beatles to Eric Clapton, some might call the Leslie speaker the unassuming backbone of classic rock and roll. Tom Booker O’Hanlan called the spinning spe... Read More

Seventy school districts across the state will receive $10 million worth of personal protective equipment and Plexiglas desk shields from the state’s $155 million COVID-19 response reserve starting this week, including at least 15 ... Read More

While the hospitality industry is making a slow recovery statewide, Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette and Dan Ellzey, executive director of S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce, argue that the Palmetto State’s manufacturing sector and ... Read More

This story was updated on August 11, 2020. The Greenville-based World Acceptance Corp. agreed last week to pay $21.7 million to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, neither admitting nor denying that the company's former s... Read More

Neo-industrial retail development Hampton Station was Atlanta-based Urban Realty Partners’ largest plunge into both the Greenville and retail markets when the “new growth urbanist” developers acquired the project last y... Read More

Beyond the chain-link fence cordoning off one of Greer’s only U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones stretches hundreds of square feet of wheels stacked almost to the ceiling, boxes of lubricants in all colors and crates of components used to re... Read More

Manufacturing companies from all sectors have been hiring across the Upstate, said Laura Moody, regional director of Hire Dynamics. “Everyone overall is picking up, and some of the reasons for us to have these job fairs is ... Read More

After Michelin North America President Alexis Garcin and local and state business leaders convened for a roundtable meeting Thursday at Michelin’s Greenville headquarters, the global tire company announced that it would donate 50,0... Read More

Gov. Henry McMaster’s plans to offer need-based grants to private schools have been halted with a temporary restraining order signed by an Orangeburg County circuit court judge (.pdf). The complaint (.pdf), filed by attorney Sky... Read More

Aside from a nameplate inlay in the center of Trade and Randall streets, downtown Greer was a few bricks away from fulfilling a vision eight years in the making in late June. Called CenterG, the streetscape project is a key phase in... Read More

This story was updated July 10. Greenville-based Arcpoint Labs is spearheading another COVID-19 test to add to its repertoire, an antibody test that not only detects COVID-19 antibodies in the blood but also how effective they are in ... Read More

South Carolinians may now have enough toilet paper for a century stored in basements, attics and bathroom closets, but at Spartanburg’s Sun Paper Company, sales haven’t faltered since March. Even as the economy reopens and... Read More

Updated: This story has been updated to remove a reference to limiting elective surgeries in S.C. hospitals. As S.C. COVID-19 cases soared this past weekend, Gov. Henry McMaster confirmed that theaters, night clubs, concert halls and ... Read More

Cubist painter Marcel Duchamp said that art serves as the missing link between the unseen. As COVID-19 cases skyrocket in Greenville, the city’s flagship festival, Artisphere, must go to even greater lengths in bridging the visi... Read More

The wound left by the exodus of the fabrics industry in the late 20th century was even greater than the one caused by the Great Depression for the region once known as the “Textile Center of the World.” Still, the spine of... Read More

Greenville City Council members expect the city’s investment in the 60-acre Unity Park and mixed-use development Project Unity Gateway to pay off as the local economy reclaims lost territory after the pandemic. Wh... Read More

All restaurant, grocery, pharmacy, retail, salon and barbershop employees in contact with the public within Greenville city limits will be required to wear masks starting at noon today — and could also be eligible for provisions fr... Read More

In conjunction with the release of AccelerateED’s final draft report Friday, S.C. Education Superintendent Molly Spearman said she expects students and school faculty who can wear a mask to wear a mask. “If we want to keep... Read More

Despite the risks of a global pandemic, existing industries in Greenwood County are moving forward with expansion plans while a few new additions wait in the wings. “We have been very fortunate that some of the existing industri... Read More

Anderson County Planning Commission’s June 9 meeting, touted as the night more housing projects could be approved than in all of 2019, crawled past midnight with relatively few projects getting the go-ahead. Only 658 of the pote... Read More

Greenville County has unveiled plans for a new Class A business and industrial park – a 172-acre Fountain Inn development dubbed Fox Hill Business Park. Developed by The Sudler Companies, a New Jersey-based real estate firm, the... Read More

Update: According to a company representative, Arcpoint Labs will no longer be offering workplace antigen vetting for COVID-19 in the coming weeks due to the Food and Drug Administration's retraction of the test for back-to-work... Read More

Dr. Linda Bell, state epidemiologist, said she is more concerned about COVID-19 in the state than ever before during a news conference on Wednesday — a day before South Carolina saw a single-day record of 687 new cases reported.&nb... Read More

The 1910s were an auspicious decade for Spartanburg’s Woodward family. After prompting from another local funeral home owner, John Woodward and his associates decided to build a mortuary in 1916 for people of color during a time... Read More

As Dick Pace rushed to the hospital March 12, he had no idea that he would spend seven weeks visiting his newborn daughters and son in an intensive care unit — or that it would take place during a pandemic. “I always j... Read More

Following the release of AccelerateSC’s final report, Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette noted that the last business restrictions in deference to the coronavirus pandemic will be lifted soon — maybe even this week. “We hav... Read More

Following the swirl of new Paycheck Protection Program stipulations released by the Small Business Administration and U.S. Treasury two weeks ago, Burr Forman McNair partner George Morrison reiterates businesses can finance employee bonu... Read More

Within two minutes of hearing Cody Reynolds' request, Roger Klouda, president of MSI Mold Builders, realized — with the right mold and a $6,500 investment — churning out thousands of six-inch neck straps for Prisma Health... Read More