Volume 3, Issue 43
October 24, 2014
Photo by Emily Price
Top-of-mind and in the mix this week
MONEY SHOT: This message, scribbled on the wall at the NEXT Innovation Center, served as inspiration to the participants of Greenville’s first Startup Weekend. Read more on page 10.
WORTH REPEATING
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“Downtown Greenville is about as good as it gets. We’re excited to add to our downtown.”
The Exchange Company, a bakery and coffee shop, is reportedly coming to downtown Simpsonville…
Brody Glenn, president of Centennial American Properties, on plans for the 4-acre Greenville News site on Main Street.
“South Carolina needs to get over any inferiority complex it might have.” John Feltman, CEO of Atlanta-based Brookhaven Medical, on the state’s unique environment for biotech development.
“If we could focus together on common goals, we reach them, and that’s when we can really make great things happen for all of us.” Elizabeth Colbert-Busch, onetime Congressional candidate, on her motivation for speaking at Clemson’s Leadership Summit.
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UPSTATE BUSINESS JOURNAL
Plans are moving forward for The Alley, a boutique bowling and music venue slated for the former Handlebar space on Stone Avenue. Neighborhood meetings are scheduled and the project will go before the city Board of Zoning Appeals on Nov. 20. Stay tuned…
October 24, 2014
VERBATIM
On the Stars and Bars… “What I can tell you is over the last three and a half years, I spent a lot of my days on the phones with CEOs and recruiting jobs to this state. I can honestly say I have not had one conversation with a single CEO about the Confederate flag.” Gov. Nikki Haley in a debate last week, acknowledging that the display of the Confederate flag at the Statehouse was a “sensitive issue,” but rejecting calls to remove it.