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CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF The $125 million WINGSPAN project is complete — now the airport has its eyes on new horizons
ALSO INSIDE “Waterfall of Light,” a new sculpture by Dimitar Lukanov, is a centerpiece of GSP’s renovated terminal. Photo by Will Crooks.
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The City of Greenville’s Design Review Board was set to consider plans for the South Carolina Children’s Theatre’s new campus on Thursday. The theater said ground could be broken in September for the project that will include a 300-seat theater, a separate Second Stage space, education classrooms, administrative space, and a large lobby. Construction is expected to take 16 months. The theater expects to be in its new facility in January 2019. Rendering by Craig Gaulden Davis.
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“People think they have to work hard, get a bigger house. But some people say, ‘Wait a minute – this is more like an American nightmare. I’m working so hard to afford it.’” Page 10
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TBA Bring on the burritos Barberitos, a franchise out of Athens, Ga., has a location in Anderson already but is actively scouting locations on Augusta Road in Greenville.
VERBATIM On Employment and Job Growth “I have a feeling that this tightness in the labor market may be hampering job growth at this point.” Rick Kaglic, economist at the Federal Reserve in Richmond, on South Carolina’s job growth figures. See an update on the state’s employment picture on page 6.
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County working on infrastructure plan for County Square redo RUDOLPH BELL | STAFF
rbell@communityjournals.com Greenville County officials can’t say at this point exactly what public infrastructure will be needed to accommodate their plan for the redevelopment of County Square. Nor can they say how much that infrastructure might cost, or how much of the cost might be borne by the private developer they pick to redevelop the high-profile property of nearly 38 acres. To start, though, the county has agreed to spend up to $15 million for a new parking garage in the West End. County officials earlier this year began the process of redeveloping County Square, the county’s main base of operations since 1987. The property is high ground within walking distance of Falls Park, Fluor Field, and the Greenville Health System Swamp Rabbit Trail and is highly desirable for real estate development. County officials are currently mulling six redevelopment plans for County Square submitted by private developers. At the same time, they are working on a plan to provide the public infrastructure that will be necessary to accommodate the proposed historic change. Among the infrastructure improvements they say may be needed are new streets, the upgrading or realignment of existing streets, parking garages, sidewalks, water and sewer service, and
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a stormwater drainage system. “In an urban area like downtown Greenville, you need sidewalks and street improvements, those kind of things, utilities. All that has to be in place to enable the development to occur,” said County Council Chairman Butch Kirven. Exactly what will be needed and exactly how much the county will pay for it depends on what the selected developer plans to build and how much that developer agrees to contribute toward public improvements. County Administrator Joe Kernell said he expects the developer to pay for “a significant portion” of any necessary public infrastructure. “The county is not in a position to foot the bill for all public improvements,” Kernell said. “That’s all part of the development. We will do what we can with any developer to ensure the public infrastructure is provided.” The county has an incentive to cooperate with the city in the proposed redevelopment of County Square because the property is within city limits and any redevelopment will have to conform to the city’s development rules. The proposed agreement also calls for the creation of a so-called “joint county business park” at County Square. That’s a state-sanctioned designation that enables the county to convert any property tax revenue generated by new
development on the site into fee payments that can be used to pay for public infrastructure. The fee payments convert to regular property tax revenue once the infrastructure is paid for. Currently, County Square is not on the tax rolls because it’s owned by the county. The proposed agreement also calls
on the county to study the traffic impact of redeveloping County Square. Castile said City Council will likely vote on the proposed agreement in the next few weeks. Kernell said the county expects to pick a developer in July, but he couldn’t say when the county might conclude negotiations with a developer.
COUNTY PLAN INCLUDES NEW WEST END PARKING GARAGE County officials aren’t waiting for developer negotiations to conclude before moving ahead with an infrastructure plan. On May 16, County Council approved a draft agreement between the county and the City of Greenville in which the county agrees to spend up to $15 million for a new parking garage somewhere in the West End but not on the County Square property. Building the garage is a necessary early step because members of the public currently park on acres of asphalt at County Square when they go to baseball games at Fluor Field or other activities in the West End. Those people need somewhere else to park before construction can
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CEOs for Cities workshop draws ‘change-makers’ from around the country RUDOLPH BELL | STAFF
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Attendees of the CEOs for Cities conference took a tour of downtown Greenville led by Mayor Knox White. Photo by Jack Robert Photography.
Joe Slavens, chief executive of Northwest Bank & Trust Co., a three-branch bank based in Davenport, Iowa, visited Greenville for the first time to attend the spring workshop of CEOs for Cities May 15–17. “The hospitality has been incredible,” he said between sessions at the Avenue, downtown Greenville’s newest event venue. “It’s a beautiful place with beautiful people.” CEOs for Cities, a Cleveland-based nonprofit organization, promotes ways of improving cities. It usually puts its meetings in larger cities, but called its national network of “city change-makers” to Greenville at the invitation of Mayor Knox White, who has participated in its events in other cities for many years. Hosting the group was “another opportunity to showcase what we have in our city, and to a wider audience of people who are opinion leaders in their own communities,” White said. “They go back and tell the Greenville story, and only good things can come from that.” In addition, he said, Greenville can always learn from the experiences of other metro areas. About 225 people from 23 states — such as city and chamber officials, business executives, and nonprofit leaders — attended the three-day workshop at various downtown venues to share, hear, and discuss ideas for urban renewal. One of them was Karen Radcliff, a vice president with Hamilton County Tourism Inc., which promotes tourism and community development in a four-city region of Indiana north of Indianapolis. Asked for her impression of Greenville, Radcliff said, “It seems like anymore, in order for a city to compete, you have to have trail systems. You have to have water features. You have to have beautiful downtowns that are not boarded up. You have to 4
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have breweries and wineries. And it seems Greenville has done that to a really great degree, more so than I’ve seen in other places.” Activities included a panel with Pete Selleck, president of Greenville-based Michelin North America; Knudt Flor, chief executive of BMW Manufacturing Co. near Greer; and Jane Robelot, a Greenville resident who used to co-anchor “CBS News This Morning.”
“They go back and tell the Greenville story, and only good things can come from that.” Greenville Mayor Knox White
Another panel included the mayors of Burlington, Vt.; Knoxville, Tenn.; Savannah, Ga.; and Fayetteville, Ga. Speakers included Ryan Popple, chief executive of Proterra, a manufacturer of battery-powered buses with a factory in Greenville, and Christian Sottile, architecture dean at the Savannah College of Art and Design and designer of the Grand Bohemian Hotel planned next to Falls Park.
Also speaking were James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic magazine, and his wife, Deborah Fallows, who have been traveling around the country since 2013, telling stories of how America is reinventing itself. The workshop was a homecoming of sorts for Melanie Cannon of Milwaukee. She grew up in Simpsonville and Greenville, where her mother, Ruby Bennett, still lives. The 35-year-old Cannon is now a vice president with a foundation operated by Dohmen Co., a Milwaukee-based company that provides services for life sciences firms, among other things. Cannon said she wanted to learn more about how the private and public sectors can cooperate to stimulate Milwaukee’s economy. She said the foundation she works for hopes to change the traditional practice in philanthropy where “you cut a check, you make donations, and you have these nonprofit organizations continually have to beg for money.” Instead, the Dohmen Company Foundation wants to fund businesses with a “social mission” that can be self-sustaining by generating their own revenue, Cannon said. The graduate of the University of South Carolina’s Arnold School of Public Health said she spent a lot of time in downtown Greenville, where her mother operated a staffing agency on McBee Avenue. “So to see where downtown has come from the 1980s, 1990s, to where it is now, it’s an amazing journey,” she said.
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Unemployment rate drops 0.1% in April
Construction of new Greenville federal courthouse gets a start date: June 2018
The number of people working in South Carolina has reached a record high, according to the state Department of Education and Workforce, who released their employment figures for April. Meanwhile, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped to 4.3 percent from 4.4 percent, the agency announced. The number of employed people increased by 3,978 to 2,233,160, according to DEW. The number of unemployed people dropped 2,126 in April to 101,513, and the state’s labor force increased by 1,852 to a total of 2,334,673. In the last 12 months, the labor force has grown by 37,733 people, and employment gains totaled 55,856. The level of unemployment decreased by 18,123. South Carolina saw job gains in several sectors: leisure and hospitality (+2,000); government (+900); construction (+700); financial activities (+500); and trade, transportation, and utilities (+400). Industries reporting decreases were professional and business services (-1,400); education and health services (-1,100); manufacturing (-600); and information (-200). “I continue to be encouraged and optimistic for the future of South Carolina,” said Cheryl Stanton, executive director of the Department of Employment and Workforce. “We have more people working now than any time in our state’s history. More and more people are feeling confident about the economy and are entering the workforce to take advantage of the opportunities available to them as businesses expand and grow here. But we have more work to do in helping to match the unemployed with the job openings across the state.” —Staff Report
Construction is scheduled to start next year on a new federal courthouse in downtown Greenville, according to the General Services Administration, the agency that handles office space for civilian employees of the federal government. GSA plans to break ground on the long-planned courthouse in June 2018, said Elizabeth Andrews, a spokesperson for the agency. She said construction is expected to take two and a half years and the courthouse is tentatively scheduled to open in the early spring of 2021. The 193,000-square-foot courthouse — to be named for former South Carolina Gov. Carroll A. Campbell Jr. — is planned on what is now a parking lot directly across East North Street from the Greenville County courthouse. GSA paid a little more than $4 million for three privately owned parcels totaling 1.97 acres at the site, which is bounded by East North Street, North Irvine Street, East Coffee Street, and North Spring Street. Andrews said the plans call for seven courtrooms, nine judges’ chambers, and offices for a federal prosecutor, federal public defender, the U.S. Marshals Service, and the U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services System. The courthouse will also have a roof penthouse, 70 secured parking spaces inside, but no on-site public parking, she said. Andrews said GSA planned to advertise a Request for Proposals (RFP) in midMay and has scheduled a “pre-proposal conference” for May 25 at the Mauldin office of Jacobs Engineering Group (1041 East Butler Road), which has been hired as construction manager as agent. The federal budget for the project is between $72 million and $82 million, according to a pre-solicitation notice from GSA. —Rudolph Bell
director of United Telephone Company, chairman of Self Regional Healthcare Hospital, director of Self Family Foundation, member of the Clemson University Engineering Advisory Board, director/president of The Citadel Development Foundation, and board member/chairman of Erskine College. He received an Honorary Doctor of Engineering degree from The Citadel and Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Erskine College.
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Emmett Davis Jr., founder of Davis & Floyd, dies at 87 Emmett Irwin Davis Jr., founder of Greenwood engineering firm Davis & Floyd Inc., died last Wednesday night at 87, the company announced. Born in Greenwood in 1929, Davis attended Greenwood High School and graduated from The Citadel in 1950. He returned to Greenwood and began working as a civil/structural engineer at Greenwood Mills while also serving with the Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army Reserve for 12 years. In 1954, he and co-worker Phil Floyd decided to start their own company, Davis & Floyd. The business began operations from inside the back of a liquor store in Greenwood. The multidiscipline professional engineering firm now has offices in Greenwood, Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, and Florence, with 175 employees. Davis was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and American Council of Engineering Companies, which awarded him the Service to the Profession award in 2008. He was awarded The Order of the Palmetto by S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford, the Presidential Medallion from Piedmont Technical College, and the Palmetto Medal by The Citadel Board of Visitors. In March 2017, Junior Achievement of Greater South Carolina inducted him into the S.C. Business Hall of Fame. His former leadership roles include
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An elder in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Davis was married to Mona Ruth Looper (deceased) and is survived by three children: Emmett I. Davis III, Rebecca Ruth Davis Flack, and Stephen Looper Davis, as well as five grandchildren. —Staff Report
INTERNATIONAL
European American Chamber hosts Atlanta-based diplomats The Carolinas chapter of the European American Chamber of Commerce — launched in Greenville last year — hosted three diplomats from Europe for a wideranging discussion on international trade. The chamber’s special guests at the Commerce Club in downtown Greenville were Detlev Ruenger, consul general for Germany; Louis De Corail, consul general for France; and Shane Stephens, consul general for Ireland. All three are based in Atlanta and conduct their nation’s business in the Southeast region. About 30 people attended, including some heavy-hitters in the Upstate business community such as Knudt Flor, chief executive of BMW Manufacturing Co. near Greer, and James Brown, general manager of Fluor Corp.’s operations in Greenville. Also present were Christian Depret-Bixio, president of the Columbia-based FrenchAmerican Chamber of Commerce of the Carolinas; Brendan Kelly, chancellor of the University of South Carolina Upstate; and Uli Eichler, president of Draexlmaier Automotive of America, a German auto supplier with manufacturing and a headquarters in Duncan. Also attending were Lee Morrissey, chairman of the English department at Clemson University, a dual citizen of the United States and Ireland, and representatives of two Irish companies operating in Anderson County: Mergon Group, which makes plastic auto parts, and E+I Engineering Group, which makes electrical equipment. Presiding over the discussion were three local attorneys involved with the >>
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Construction begins on Anderson senior living community Construction is underway on a 44,000-square-foot, $9.5 million senior living community, Dominion Senior Living of Anderson. Located at 3461 N. Highway 81, the community will include assisted living and memory care. It’s set to open in the summer of 2018 and will employ about 50 people. The facility will have technological integration, on-site enrichment activities, and nurses and professionally trained caregivers who are available 24 hours a day. Dominion Senior Living of Anderson will include a two-story building with 45 assisted living and 15 memory care apartments. “Every detail of the community is carefully considered and designed with the help of experts to offer a safe, secure, and peaceful environment,” says Mark Taylor, president of Dominion Senior Living. A faith-based community, Dominion Senior Living is partnering with executive directors who are also partial owners and operators of the community. —Melinda Young
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1 1. Terrace seats 200 in its open dining room. 2. Sliding windows on two front sections create an indoor/outdoor dining experience right on Main Street. 3. Craft brews and an extensive bourbon list have positioned brunch-heavy Terrace as a dinner destination. 4. The custom 35-foot quartz bar also serves as a coffee bar in the morning. Photos by Will Crooks
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The brunch-heavy Terrace restaurant opens in the West End ARIEL TURNER | STAFF
aturner@communityjournals.com Almost 40 bourbons, exactly 40 craft brews, and a 35-foot custom quartz bar in the new Greenville Terrace are a clear indication the Charlotte-based restaurant known for its extensive brunch offerings is poised to take on the dinner crowd too. Terrace, which opened May 22 at 654 S. Main St., will still have the same brunch-heavy menu as its two Charlotte-area locations, featuring such guest favorites as red velvet waffles, fried chicken, shrimp and grits, and poppy seed French toast. But owner Stewart Penick says he hopes Terrace will become a dinner destination as well. Penick’s dinner favorites are the Parmesan and horseradish crusted veal chop and the bourbon-braised short ribs, which he says are cut specifically for Terrace 8
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to be low in fat. General manager Douglas Stevens says Terrace is joining the ranks of other Greenville restaurants that are sourcing as much of their produce as possible from local farms. Next to Rick Erwin’s West End Grille, the building Terrace now occupies was formerly the Furman University lunch building, built between 1915 and 1920. Penick says he is glad to return the space to its roots, serving the community and providing Southern favorites with a twist. “You don’t make a lot of money in the restaurant business,” Penick says. “The greatest joy I get out of it is, you get a lot of people who come up to you and say, ‘I just love this.’” The entrance is flanked by moveable windows that, when open, create two outdoor dining areas. The regular dining room seats 200 with roomy booths
3 and four-top tables, and a private dining room at the back can seat up to 50. It can also be divided by a soundproof curtain into two smaller spaces. In the entranceway, Terrace’s signature wire metal tree stands 9 feet tall with a diameter of 10 feet. Each of the restaurants has a metal tree at the entrance, and this is the largest.
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RESTAURANTS The sixth Basil Thai location, which will become the franchise model moving forward, features floating lotus flowers over the granite bar, a chef’s counter overlooking the kitchen, and the chain’s signature black and green earthy decor. Photos by Will Crooks.
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aturner@communityjournals.com Basil Thai co-owner Chai Eang stood in the iStore at ONE City Plaza waiting for his iPhone to get updated the morning of his new restaurant’s soft opening. He looked around and mused, “When I originally talked to Hughes [Development Corporation], this was supposed to be Basil. But who can compete with Apple?” The soaring, two-story ceilings in the atrium of the iStore were exactly what Eang was looking for in his next location, but instead, Basil Thai is three storefronts over, in a 3,254-square-foot space at 9 N. Laurens St. that, as it turns out, will become the model as Eang and his brother, Henry, look to extend their franchise. The next location will likely be Raleigh, N.C., Eang says. The lower ceilings in the new location were a challenge for the design concept, which called for a lot of equipment being visible in the exposed ceiling, so the opening has been delayed for months. But it’s finally here. Basil Thai opened May 22 for dinner seven days a week until Eang is confident his staff can manage both lunch and dinner. Basil Thai is still hiring,
but with so many new restaurants flooding the market, it’s been a challenge to fully staff the restaurant, Eang says. Staff from Basil’s Charlotte and Columbia restaurants will be filling in the holes in the meantime. The few days before were a textbook example of how restaurant openings rarely go as planned. On the Thursday before the soft opening, the restaurant’s lighting system went out, and Eang had to spend hours problem-solving and making trips to the store. The process left the dining room in disarray. The timeline setbacks and interruptions can, and do, rattle new restaurant owners, but Eang is a veteran of this process; after all, this is the sixth Basil Thai he’s opened since 2002. His other South Carolina locations are in Charleston, Columbia, and Mount Pleasant, with two North Carolina restaurants in Charlotte and Ballantyne. The configuration of the Greenville store is slightly different from the other Basil locations. Still, there are some similarities: the open kitchen, eight-stool bar and a chef’s counter, and granite bar. Delicate pink lotus flowers, like those used in the first Charlotte location, hang over the bar for fashion and
function. They are deliberately close (boneless half duck deep-fried, topped together to draw the eye away from with bell peppers, basil, green peas, the mechanical apparatus in the snow peas, tomatoes, and pineapple, ceilings and also give the environment dressed in red curry sauce). The an ethereal feel. restaurant offers varying levels of The rest of the aesthetic is in keeping spiciness and vegetarian and gluwith the Basil motif — black, green, ten-free items. and earthy. Large Asian-influenced pieces decorate the walls. BASIL THAI Basil’s award-winning menu 9 N. Laurens St., Greenville will remain the same at the Now open Sunday–Thursday, 5–10 p.m.; Greenville location, most Friday–Saturday, 5–11 p.m. notably, the chef’s signature eatatbasil.com dish, Crispy Red Curry Duck 5.26.2017
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Architect Jennifer Gosnell has drawn plans for a four-container home that will have 1,800 square feet, three bedrooms, and 3.5 baths. Photo by Will Crooks
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Thinking Inside the Box As homeowners look for right-sized houses, a sturdy new option emerges in Greenville: container homes MELINDA YOUNG | CONTRIBUTOR
myoung@communityjournals.com After spending several years renovating a 100-year-old Greenville house, building designer Eli Narramore is ready for a home that is durable and requires very little maintenance. So he has plans to build a house made out of a material so sturdy that the military uses it for underground bomb shelters: shipping containers. A worldwide container home trend has included no-frills container houses that are used for affordable housing in developing nations, as well as high-end architectural marvels that are valued at over a million dollars in the United States. Shipping containers weigh 2 to 4 tons and cost $2,500 to $7,000 locally. They are fireproof and waterproof. Prices here are lower than in areas farther from ports. They’re considered a green alternative to new brick and wood construction since they’ve already been manufactured and simply need to be adapted. Most of the containers that become buildings have already served their original purpose of shipping products across the ocean. 10
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RIGHT-SIZED HOUSING Architect Jennifer Gosnell has drawn plans for a four-container home that will have 1,800 square feet, three bedrooms, and 3.5 baths. Each shipping container is 8 feet wide, 40 feet long, and 9 feet, 6 inches high. The house’s two-story design will maintain the shipping containers’ superior strength — supporting 65,000-plus pounds — by having one container stacked above another. There is an infill area with two-story windows, separating the two stacks. The infill will have a staircase and will make it easier to keep ductwork, plumbing, and wiring out of the floors and ceilings. “Our hope is to keep it under $100,000. That’s the budget,” Gosnell says. Gosnell is a principal architect at SGA Architecture, and she recently received the 2016 AIA S.C. Robert Mills Honor Award for Residential Design for a house built in the Augusta Road area. Her first container home client, Dale Gosnell, who also is her ex-husband, bought the shipping containers for $2,500 each. Most of the cost will be in making the home attractive and livable. “There is the tiny house movement, and we’re calling
this right-sized housing,” she says. “There’s a growing population of people who are thinking of getting the equity out of their home and downsizing. They might not want a tiny house, but they want a right-sized house.” Gosnell has fielded several calls from people interested in building container homes for either personal use or for a residential or commercial development. Her first foray into container home construction — and possibly the first in Greenville County — will start this summer.
A REGIONAL TREND Greenville-based L&L Container Company has seen the container home business begin to take off in the Carolinas and Georgia, says Van Pittman, owner of the 30-year-old business. “It’s a trend right now,” he says. “We’ve had some architects approach us, wanting to do something with these containers, making some office and strip shopping restaurants out of them.” While most of L&L’s customers rent containers to ship products across the ocean, a few have bought them to turn into homes. People can buy containers that
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Container home by Eli Narramore. Rendering provided by Galt Innovations.
were never used to haul hazardous waste materials. The cost of transporting containers to a building site can be as low as $200 for Greenville locations. But customers also pay the container’s port-to-Greenville delivery cost, which can run up to $900, Pittman says. One of L&L’s customers built a container house near Table Rock, and another bought one for a Spartanburg home. Basic shipping containers have been used by the military as temporary housing, and construction companies use them as job site offices. The advantage to using a shipping container is that it cannot be easily stolen as sometimes happens with job site trailers, which can simply be hooked to the back of a pickup truck, Pittman says. “We install the windows and doors and HVAC systems,” he says. “The cost of an outfitted container is $10,000 to $14,000.”
planning to create a container home community in Greenville County. “I think this would be great for a pocket neighborhood with homes that are more closely spaced together with common green area,” Narramore says. Dale Gosnell previously lived in an old bungalow in the North Main area. But he saw a container home being built in Pickens County years earlier and “fell in love with it.” A woodworker, Gosnell says he likes the industrial look. His container home will fit on a half-acre lot he
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owns in an industrial area, near the family business. There will be room for his son and daughter, two guinea pigs, and his dog. Gosnell will not put siding over the entire corrugated steel exterior of the containers. But he plans to be creative with exterior paint – perhaps a different color for each container. “It’s going to be wild,” he says. “I’m going to leave the natural logos on all of the containers, but we’ll paint them different colors.” The container trend has an addictive quality, drawing people to come up with creative uses for the big metal boxes. For instance, Gosnell’s daughter has suggested they purchase a container to make a swimming pool. Gosnell also is toying with the idea of adding a fifth container to be a woodworking shop for his business. Container homes, because of their intrinsic simplicity and relative affordability, are a backlash to the American dream, Jennifer Gosnell says. “People think they have to work hard, get a bigger house,” she says. “But some people say, ‘Wait a minute – this is more like an American nightmare. I’m working so hard to afford it.’”
LOW-MAINTENANCE AND DEBT-FREE Eli Narramore, who is co-owner of Galt Innovations, will build his home with the goal of being debt-free. He’ll include some design luxury in an empty-nester-sized space. “My intent is to create a model for people,” he says. Narramore is convinced that this type of right-sized and low-maintenance living will catch on with both young people looking to buy their first home and with older homeowners who want to downsize. He is
Container home by Jennifer Gosnell. Rendering provided by SGA Architecture.
COST CONTAINMENT Adam Kalkin, a New Jersey architect, builds his 2,000-square-foot “Quik Houses” from six shipping containers. The two-story homes include three bedrooms and two and a half baths, a laundry room, pantry, and mudroom.
Here’s how much it costs to make:
Quik House design by Adam Kalkin. Photo by Peter Aaron.
Base price for six factory-modified containers: $119,000 Site preparation (excavation, laying foundation, etc.): $14,000 Assembly: $2,500 Heating and cooling system: $7,000
Plumbing: $7,000 Electrical: $7,000 Roofing: $3,000 Insulation: $5,500 Flooring: $5,000 Shelves and closets: $2,000 Doors and hardware: $2,000 Glass installation: $4,000 Wall finishes and painting: $6,000
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A NEW COURSE FOR GSP The completion of Project WINGSPAN introduces a new era at GSP, but the airport is keeping its eyes on the horizon WORDS BY TREVOR ANDERSON PHOTOS BY WILL CROOKS
In November 1958, Roger Milliken made perhaps one of his greatest pitches. The late textile magnate introduced the idea for a regional airport to a group of Upstate legislators who were gathered at the Greenville County courthouse. “If we do this thing right, we will have an advantage that few such communities have ever realized,” Milliken told the group. “This decision is the same type faced by towns 100 years ago that wanted to build beside a railroad. Here, we have a facility in keeping with the growth of our time.” Four years later, Milliken and 12
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Upstate leaders were joined by thousands of residents at a dedication ceremony for the $10 million Greenville-Spartanburg Airport on 3,500 acres of former farmland near Greer. The facility was considered to be on par with, and in some cases superior to, other airports of the time that were the boast of major cities across the country. In the midst of the excitement, there were some in the community who cautioned that the airport’s existence could only be justified by its use. That warning would really hit home almost five decades later during the Great Recession.
WINGSPAN AND THE SOUTHWEST EFFECT In 2009, the airport, which was renamed Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport (GSP) in 1995, faced a big problem. About two-thirds of its potential customers were being “leaked” to nearby airports in Atlanta and Charlotte, N.C. The trend was precipitated by a lack of direct flights, airlines cutting back routes, and businesses and consumers bargain-hunting for cheaper fares. Airport officials aided by the Upstate
Air Service Task Force, a group comprised of some of the region’s top business leaders, began working on a strategy to regain GSP’s market share. One of their top priorities was to find a replacement for Independence Air, a low-cost airline that left the airport in 2005 after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Another focus was on renovating GSP’s outmoded terminal, which had last undergone a $35 million expansion that was completed in 1989. During one week in October 2010, both projects moved forward. The airport’s commission decided to advance what later became a five-year,
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GSP BY THE NUMBERS Annual local economic impact: $817 million Jobs supported: 9,500 Annual payroll: $170.5 million Cost of Project WINGSPAN: $125 million Escalators at the western end of the renovated terminal lead to the new centralized TSA security screening checkpoint.
multiphase $125 million renovation project nicknamed Project WINGSPAN. A few days later, Dallas-based Southwest Airlines announced its decision to add service at GSP. Southwest’s arrival in 2011 sparked a phenomenon referred to as the “Southwest Effect.” The term represents the lowering of fares, and increase in flights and destinations that typically follow that airline’s entrance into new markets. The first phase of WINGSPAN began in 2012. It ushered in many changes, including a new Rental Car Customer Center, an expansion of Concourses A
and B, new food and retail concessions, baggage claim carousels, a curbside canopy, covered walkways, and a new glass façade on the front of the terminal. Both developments had an immediate positive impact on the airport’s business. Even as Southwest’s effect has continued to taper off, GSP reported earlier this year its passenger traffic reached an all-time high of 2,018,319 flyers in 2016. The airport announced in September it had signed a three-year lease with Ohio-based PSA Airlines, which plans to occupy a 30,000-square-foot hangar and 15,000 square feet of office and
Cost of upcoming planned projects: $100 million
storage space. In November 2016, Germany-based global freight forwarder Senator International launched its “Atlantic Bridge,” a new cargo service between GSP and Munich, Germany. Earlier this year, the airport rolled out its own fixed-base operator (FBO), Cerulean Aviation. An FBO provides aeronautical services such as fueling and hangaring to general aviation operators at an airport. In March, one of GSP’s other carriers, American Airlines, announced it would add three daily nonstop flights to Chicago’s O’Hare International beginning July 5.
FROM VISION TO REALITY On Tuesday, the airport celebrated the completion of WINGSPAN. Airport funds covered 80 percent of the project, with the remaining 20 percent coming from the Federal Aviation Administration’s Airport Improvement Program Fund and the Transportation Security Administration. GSP officials said the project will increase the airport’s total capacity to 4 million passengers per year. Airport spokeswoman Rosylin Weston said the construction had an GSP continued on PAGE 14
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estimated $164 million impact on the local economy and created about 1,400 jobs. The final phases of the renovation have included the development of a new grand hall, with new food, beverage, and retail concessions. Food options now include Thomas Creek Grill, RJ Rockers Flight Room, Chick-fil-A, Dunkin’ Donuts, Baskin-Robbins, Flatwood Grill, and DC-3, a hot dog joint. The Kitchen, a signature restaurant by celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck, is expected to open in about one month, said Dave Edwards, president and CEO of GSP. On the retail side, GSP has two Hudson newsstands and Tech on the Go, an electronics store. Palmetto Distillery will soon open a store near The Kitchen. WINGSPAN has also yielded new parking options,
art installations, a centralized TSA security screening area, administrative offices, conference center space, and a new airside garden, which Weston said is the first airside garden ever sanctioned by the FAA. “I think all in all I’m extremely pleased with the results of what we’ve been able to deliver to the community,” Edwards said. “What has been fun to see is we started with this project with a study back in October 2009. We saw that study turn into a concept, which then turned into a design project, which then turned into the start of construction. And what we see today is very much the vision when we completed that study. Every construction project has its bumps and hurdles that you have to get through. We’ve had our share of those. But I think what we have been able to accomplish is something that is going serve the community extremely well for a long time.”
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Edwards said GSP’s airfares are now 7 percent lower than the airport’s nearest competitor, Charlotte Douglas International Airport, based on data from the U.S. Department of Transportation. GSP has also gained back most of its leakage to Atlanta, a fact Edwards attributed to airlines — Delta in particular — growing the size of its aircraft in the market to almost entirely mainline planes and getting “very competitive” on fares. “I think what happened with the traditional Southwest Effect is they brought new passengers,” he said. “At the same time, the existing airlines here got more competitive. … Everyone grew. “Since that time, even though Southwest has reduced their number of frequencies, what the other carriers saw was that if they continued to add the right aircraft in the right markets at the right fare, that we could continue to fill airplanes,” he added. Edwards said the airport’s five airlines currently fly to 15 different destinations. The airport’s market share divided among those carriers include 36 percent for Delta, 28 percent for American, 17 percent for United, 12 percent for Southwest, and 7 percent for Allegiant, Edwards said.
ON THE HORIZON Edwards remained bullish on the airport’s continued success. With the completion of WINGSPAN, he said the airport has already begun looking to the future. GSP recently began holding focus groups with community stakeholders to see if there are any areas of WINGSPAN that need improvement. Edwards said so far the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. “Honestly, the comments we got back were just little things that we need to tweak,” he said. “No one really came up with anything of any significance over three meetings in two days with 40 to 45 people involved from our community. … I think that gave us a lot of satisfaction. It was a well-thought-out project by everyone involved. … There is a lot of satisfaction in being able to deliver something where everyone’s telling you, ‘Hey, you got it right.’” Edwards said the airport is working on a master plan that he expects will be completed in late August or early September 2018. He said GSP has a pipeline of about $100 million in projects that will be completed during the next three to five years. Those projects include expanded economy and employee parking that should be finished this fall. Construction of a new parking garage and rental car facility could begin next summer. That project is expected to last about 18 to 20 months. The airport is investing about $15 million in new general aviation facilities that recently went under construction, Edwards said. It also just completed the renovation of the existing hangar for PSA. “Our impediment at this point really to having >>
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MILEPOSTS ALONG THE FLIGHT PATH 1958: Proposal presented to Upstate legislative delegations to build $5.5 million airport. 1961: Groundbreaking ceremony held on July 7. 1962: Greenville-Spartanburg Jetport opened Oct. 15. 1970: Airfreight building constructed; U.S. Customs Office established. 1977: Runway strengthened to accommodate larger aircraft. 1988: New parking garage constructed; total parking reaches more than 3,000. Chick-fil-A and DC-3 are among the new dining options in GSP’s new grand hall.
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even more success in the cargo area, and in some respects growing the airport going forward, is that we need more facility,” Edwards said. “On the passenger side, we’re good for a while, but when we talk about general aviation, corporate aviation, and cargo in particular, we need more aircraft parking areas, we need more cargo warehouse space, we need more general aviation hangar facilities. Those are the things we’re working on now to get in place, because on the cargo side we have no more room to grow. We are out of acreage space and we’re out of cargo warehouse space. We have to be able to put that in place to grow the business.” GSP has also begun rolling out new services. During the past two weeks, the airport added valet parking, which he said has been well received by customers. GSP commissioners recently approved a contract with Manchester Airport Group to build a 2,500-square-foot VIP lounge in the main terminal beyond the security checkpoint. “It will give us another amenity for passengers who may be used to only getting those at a larger airport,” Edwards said. A new Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting station will go into design this summer. Construction could begin in the summer or fall of 2018. Edwards said the introduction of Cerulean Aviation, the new FBO, has gone “extremely well” since January. The airport’s fuel sales in March showed almost a 100 percent increase, compared with the same month of 2016. “We’ve upped the level of service, we’ve become more competitive on fuel pricing, and we just really see a great response from the general aviation community,” Edwards said. He said GSP still has about 1,500 acres of property that is still available for development
around the airport. Edwards said the airport could soon “get a little more aggressive” in its efforts to attract new commercial and industrial users to the property. “We’re still in our infancy when it comes to land development,” he said. “But it’s another exciting piece of what’s in front of us.”
TIED TO REGIONAL SUCCESS Upstate leaders said the region’s economic success in the future will be impacted by the strength of the airport. Based on a 2012 study, GSP has an annual impact of more than $817 million on the local economy and supports about 9,500 jobs, with an annual payroll of almost $170.5 million. “I think we have a great airport,” said John Lummus, president and CEO of the Upstate SC Alliance. “We had some folks in recently from the Midwest and they were just glowing about it. It’s something we can really be proud of.” Lummus said the airport’s proximity to the S.C. Ports Authority’s inland port and its partnership with Senator International help complete the picture of an intermodal hub that will continue to attract new investment and jobs. “GSP represents a significant gateway to the community,” said Carter Smith, executive vice president of the Spartanburg Area Chamber of Commerce’s Economic Futures Group, who took part in the recent focus group at GSP. “The airport did a great job of seeing an opportunity to increase cargo traffic by partnering with Senator International. … There are a number of things GSP’s leadership have done to improve the airport. I think it is well positioned for the future. Dave and his team have done an outstanding job.”
1989: Expansion project increases terminal and passenger waiting area by 140,000 square feet. 1995: Runway extended from 7,600 to 9,000 feet to accommodate BMW cargo jets; airport name changed to GreenvilleSpartanburg International Airport. 1998: Second parking garage constructed. 1999: Second runway expansion project completed; runway is now 11,001 feet. 2001: Opened 13,000 square feet of new terminal space. Constructed new 110,000-square-foot FedEx facility. 2002: South cargo apron expanded by 35,000 square yards. Installed explosive detection equipment. 2004: Airfield renamed Roger Milliken Field. 2010: Approximately 10 acres of land purchased along I-85 for future overpass bridge. 2011: Southwest Airlines begins service at GSP. 2012: WINGSPAN project begins. 2013: Airport begins development of GSP International Logistics Park 2014: Thomas Creek Brewery and RJ Rockers Flight Room open on Concourses A and B, respectively. 2016: GSP sets new passenger traffic record with more than 2 million flyers; Senator International launches new cargo service between the Upstate and Germany. 2017: Project WINGSPAN completed and renovations unveiled.
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JOYNER COMMERCIAL HAS ANNOUNCED THE FOLLOWING TRANSACTIONS Matt Carter and Joe Teague of Joyner Commercial were the agents in the sale of a 152-room hotel on Augusta Road at I-85 in Greenville, formerly a Holliday Inn, by JR Capital LLC to S & R Services LLC. Caleb Boyd was the agent in the lease of 2,044 SF of office space at 111 Pelham Road in Greenville. Joe Teague was the agent in the sale of a commercial building on Rocky Slope Road in Greenville to KPE & SGE LLC. Susan Dodds was the agent in the sale of an office space property on West Stone Avenue in Greenville to DRR Properties Inc. Hope Tz Schmalzl was the agent in the lease of 3113 N. Pleasantburg Drive in Greenville. COLDWELL BANKER COMMERCIAL CAINE HAS ANNOUNCED THE FOLLOWING TRANSACTIONS Graham Howle and Lakin Parr were the agents in the sale of +0.09 AC at the corner of Augusta Road and Mauldin Road in Greenville by South Carolina Department of Transportation to Design Development LLC. Graham Howle and Lakin Parr were the agents in the sale of a +3,500-SF retail building on +0.04 AC at 229 Augusta St. in Greenville by 16
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David A. Slyder to Sarah Elizabeth Gilley. Graham Howle and Lakin Parr were the agents in the sale of a +8,342-SF retail building on +0.83 AC at 801 Augusta St. in Greenville by Donna West Nicholson Gamage to Stone Family Properties LLC. Pete Brett, CCIM, David Sigmon, CCIM, and Matt Vanvick were the agents in the sale of a +3,477-SF retail building on +1.07 AC at 1053 S. Pendleton St. in Easley by South State Bank to Jim Bell. Graham Howle and Lakin Parr were the agents in the sale of +1.4 AC at 800 Lenhardt Grove Road in Piedmont by RAM Associates LLC to Slyder Lenhardt LLC. Pete Brett, CCIM, David Sigmon, CCIM, and Matt Vanvick were the agents in the sale of a +20,900-SF medical office building on +5.054 AC at 2400 Boiling Springs Road in Spartanburg by Upstate Affiliate Organization d/b/a Greenville Health System to Medical Center Realty LLC, North Medical Building Corp. & EMCD Properties LLC. Tim Satterfield was the agent in the sale of +1.82 AC at 480 Brian Drive and 14 Kaplan Court in Spartanburg by Great Estates LLC to Upstate Investing LLC. Tim Satterfield was the agent in the sale of +0.83 AC on Asheville Highway in Boiling Springs
by First Church of the Nazarene of Spartanburg, SC Inc. to HPI Villas at Lawson Creek Land LLC. David Sigmon, CCIM, and Matt Vanvick were the agents in the lease of a +4,405-SF retail space at 2015 Laurens Road in Greenville by TCD Properties LLC to Carolina Karate and Fitness Center. Graham Howle and Lakin Parr were the agents in the lease of a +2,231-SF office space at 1040 W. Washington St. in Greenville by J & T Holdings LLC to Forest Millwork Inc. Rick Cauthen, P.E., was the agent in the lease of a +1,750SF office building at 102 Renaissance Circle in Mauldin by Brush Development Company LLC to Palmetto Family Works LLC. COLLIERS INTERNATIONAL HAS ANNOUNCED THE FOLLOWING TRANSACTIONS Richard Jackson was the agent in the lease of 2,175 SF of office space at 111 Commons Way, Ste. 1 in Greenville by RAD Investments LLC to iTrust Wellness Group LLC. Richard Jackson was the agent in the lease of 3,272 SF of office space at 429 Roper Mountain Road in Greenville by BKD Capital LLC to CPI Security Systems Inc. Brantley Anderson and Taylor Allen were the agents in the lease renewal of 13,881 SF of office space at 1
Independence Pointe in Greenville by US REIF ICP SC LLC. to Quest Global Services-NA Inc. Scott Burgess and Lance Byars were the agents in the lease of 1,600 SF of retail space at 651 Highway 28 Bypass in Anderson by New Market Anderson LLC to Cashwell Financial of SC LLC. NAI EARLE FURMAN HAS ANNOUNCED THE FOLLOWING TRANSACTIONS Keith Jones, CCIM, was the agent in the lease of 7,552 SF of office space located in the Next Innovation Center in Greenville by Innovation Center Inc. to Advoco Inc. Hunter Garrett, CCIM, SIOR; John Staunton; and Parks McLeod were the agents in the lease of 92,000 SF of industrial space located at 141 Old Mill Road in Greenville by Piedmont Saco LLC to Yanfeng Automotive Interior Systems. Hunter Garrett, CCIM, SIOR; John Staunton; and Parks McLeod were the agents in the lease of 3,000 SF of industrial space in Pelham Ridge Center in Greenville by Advantage Line LLC to Embody PT. Gaston Albergotti and Graham Mullikin were the agents in the lease of 5,500 SF of retail space in the Gregory Center in Greenville by 103 McCall LLC to Igesia Casa De Alabanca. Keith Jones, CCIM; Hunter Garrett,
CCIM, SIOR; John Staunton; and Parks McLeod were the agents in the lease of leasing 3,339 SF of office space at 850 S. Pleasantburg Drive in Greenville by Ramsay Warne LLC to Wingfield Golf Management Services LLC. Keith Jones, CCIM, was the agent in the lease of 2,500 SF of office space located AT 508 Rhett St. in Greenville by West End North LLC to The Bateman Law Firm. Hunter Garrett, CCIM, SIOR; John Staunton; and Parks McLeod were the agents in the lease of 31,200 SF of industrial space in Caliber Ridge Industrial Park in Greer by Liberty Property LP to AristoCote Inc. Hunter Garrett, CCIM, SIOR; John Staunton; and Parks McLeod were the agents in the lease of 14,390 SF of office space at 84 Villa Road in Greenville by Capital Real Estate Southeast LLC to Southern Tide. Towers Rice, CCIM, was the agent in the lease of 23,500 SF of industrial space at 24 P & N Drive in Piedmont by Holly McGee LLC to Huttig Building Products Inc. Towers Rice, CCIM, was the agent in the lease of 15,000 SF of industrial space at 18 and 20 P & N Drive in Piedmont by Holly McGee LLC to McCormick Insulation Supply Inc. Keith Jones, CCIM, was the agent in the sale of two office
buildings totaling 8,273 SF located at 507 & 509 West Butler Road in Mauldin by Regional Management of South Carolina to JTB LLC. Stuart Smith was the agent in the sale of 9.5 AC of land located at 2408 Bryant Road in Chesnee by Peggy H. Phillips Living Trust to Gibson and Gibson Property. Keith Jones, CCIM, was the agent in the sale of 35 AC of land at 1400 Old Stage Road in Simpsonville by Ruby Lee Cantrell Hawkins Roberts Trust to Stage Hawk LLC. Andrew Babb was the agent in the sale of a 41,000-SF retail building located at 174 E. Main St. in Spartanburg by First South Bank to Good Wal Aug Smith LLC. Kevin Pogue was the agent in the sale of 6.21 AC of land on Stagecoach Road in Pauline by Sylvia Knox to William & Stephen Freeman. Earle Furman Jr., SIOR, was the agent in the sale of a 45,000-SF retail strip center located at 2390 Laurens Road in Greenville by Julius Garry Green to SWR of Greenville LLC. Towers Rice, CCIM, was the agent in the sale of 20.43 AC of land located on Durham Road in Piedmont to Kevin Gilreath. Bernie Bastian and John Powell, CCIM, were the agents in the sale of a 7,000SF retail property located at 134 N. Main St. by 3B &
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V Properties LLC to Rogue Holdings LLC. Earle Furman Jr., SIOR, and Bill Sims were the agents in the sale of a 6,000SF office building located at 115 Halton Village Circle in Greenville by Creek and Company LLC to Bank Building R LLC. Earle Furman Jr., SIOR, and Kevin Pogue were the agents in the sale of the former Plastic Omnium Building, an 80,000-SF industrial building located at 961 Berry Shoals Road in Duncan by M & T Enterprises Inc. to ATA Properties LLC. Cole Morris was the agent in the sale of a 108-unit self-storage facility located at 115 John Dodd Road in Spartanburg by Westside Holdings LLC to 512 Holdings LLC. John Baldwin, CCIM, was the agent in the sale of a 19,000-SF industrial building located at 108 Park Place Court in Greenville by 3H & S LLC to Richfair Holdings Inc. Alex Campbell was the agent in the sale of a 6,582-SF office building located at 81 Pointe Circle in Greenville by GHS Health Resources Inc. to T. Bishop Properties Corp. Bill Sims and Earle Furman Jr., SIOR, were the agents in the sale of a 9,960SF Dollar Tree property located at 117 Jacobs Highway in Clinton by Browning Clinton LLC to Julius Garry Green.
and Drew were the agents in the sale of the Upstate Family Medicine building, a 9,743-SF office investment property leased to Greenville Health System and located at 12016 North Radio Station Road in Seneca by James Hanahan Jr. to NV LLC. FURMAN CAPITAL ADVISORS, A DIVISION OF NAI EARLE FURMAN, HAS ANNOUNCED THE FOLLOWING TRANSACTIONS
M. S. Shore was the agent in the lease of 1435 Rutherford Road, Unit D, in Greenville to First Light Energy. Jessica Shore was the agent in the lease of 1435 Rutherford Road, Unit C, in Greenville to The Actor In You Performing Arts LLC.
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M. S. Shore was the agent in the lease of 1300 E. Washington St., Unit K, in Greenville to Frame Maker.
Peter Couchell, CCIM; Robert Schmidt; and Earle Furman Jr., SIOR, were the agents in the sale of a Dollar General in Pickens by Robinson Properties LLC to Julius Gary Green. Jimmy Wright; Ted Lyerly, CCIM; Peter Couchell, CCIM; and Rob Schmidt were the agents in the sale of the 38,000-SF retail Fresh Market shopping center in Columbia.
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M. S. Shore was the agent in the sale of 305 W. Stone Ave. in Greenville. M. S. Shore and Spencer Hines were the agents in the sale of 117 Manly St. in Greenville. M. S. Shore was the agent in the sale of 920 N. Church St. in Greenville. M. S. Shore was the agent in the lease of 2041A Laurens Road in Greenville to Designs & Techniques by Tiffany.
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Though persistent, the trope of IT experts wearing headphones and having limited social skills is vanishing quickly.
HOW CAN I SHOW OFF MY SKILLS WITH LIMITED WORKING EXPERIENCE? Once you’ve finished your associate or bachelor’s degree or officially graduated from an intensive training program, your next challenge is to package your experience in a compelling and straightforward way. You can start by contributing to sites like Github or building a portfolio that details any projects and professional experience you have. Without the benchmark of career length, technical portfolios can be helpful in gauging skill level and prevent you from being screened out on your years alone.
WHAT ELSE DO I NEED TO KNOW? Hiring managers and other techy people can gain a lot from the aforementioned portfolios, but keep in mind that most recruiters and HR professionals are novices and we all have a say in the hiring process. I have a PDF of “Coding for Dummies” downloaded on my desktop, but try as I might, I will never know as much as you do — which brings me to my next point: Though persistent, the trope of IT experts wearing headphones and having limited social skills is vanishing quickly. Very rarely do I work with a client who just needs someone to bang out code all day. Instead, you’ll be communicating with and setting expecta-
tions for clients, establishing project timelines and budgets, coordinating with departments on upgrades/rollouts, and more. For that reason, I beg you to let your personality shine. And also to be gracious when you’re interacting with people in the hiring process who might not know what a Linux command line is. You attract a lot more bees with honey than vinegar, get what I’m saying?
AM I GOING TO GET RICH SITTING IN MY HOME OFFICE? Finally, although IT positions usually offer competitive salaries, you don’t actually start out making $75,000 per year working from home. You can use tools like Glassdoor.com and Payscale.com to see real data about salary ranges for companies in your area. Also, though many companies are adopting flexible work environments that include working from home, many in the Greenville area are not. As you’re building those first years of your resume, resign yourself to the fact that you’ll likely have to go into an office from 8 a.m.–5 p.m. and work with an awesome team that will ultimately make you a better employee.
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RESILIENCE: A STORYTELLERS EVENT Wyche P.A., in connection with its Storytellers community project, hosted a panel discussion on resilience, featuring (from left) moderator Meliah Bowers Jefferson, a Wyche attorney; Charleston Mayor Joe Riley; Jennifer Pinckney, a survivor of the Mother Emanuel church shooting in Charleston; S.C. Sen. Gerald Malloy; and Wyche attorney Matthew Richardson.
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Hired as an integrated marketing manager at Infinity Marketing. Thomas will focus exclusively on managing the development, implementation, and execution of Tindall Corporation’s branding and marketing activities on behalf of Infinity Marketing, acting as a liaison between corporate and divisional leaders.
Received the Lewis Blackman Patient Safety Champion Award. Smith, medical director of Greenville Health System’s Hospice of the Foothills and Cottingham Hospice House, was chosen based on his work to develop a true continuum of care for patients, resulting in the first comprehensive inpatient and outpatient palliative care program in the region.
Promoted to strategic business unit leader at O’Neal Inc. Gowens is responsible for all the planning, design, and construction of pulp and paper, packaging, films and fibers, and building products production facilities. He has more than 25 years of professional experience in industrial manufacturing and project execution.
Joined FinTrust Investment as the director of marketing and client engagement. Siniard has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and over eight years of marketing experience in multiple industries, including bank, airline, and financial charge card loyalty programs.
Joined United Community Bank as a vice president and community banking sales and service manager. Roark has more than 20 years of experience in financial services, most recently with PNC Bank. She will be responsible for organizing and optimizing both sales and service performance within Community Banking.
VIP DAVID RICH Hired as vice president of sales at Community Journals Publishing Group. Rich is a nationally recognized speaker and author of five books, including “Contagious Selling” and “How to Click with Everyone Every Time.” He has made over 2,500 presentations to over 2 million people in 49 states and four countries. He has an extensive background creating and leading sales teams, most recently as area sales director with YP, and vice president of sales with a leading e-commerce company.
Business The Greenville Chamber presented 3Fold Creative with its April 2017 Small Business of the Month Award. 3Fold Creative is a Greenville-based growth agency. Founder/CEO Tim Joiner leads a team that helps companies achieve business goals through the strategic application of business expertise, digital marketing, and intentional creativity. 3Fold’s international reach of clients ranges from nonprofit organizations to entrepreneurs to global companies.
Construction O’Neal Inc., a Greenville-based integrated design and construction firm, has hired Richard Chee as controls project specialist. Chee has more than 10 years of controls engineering experience. He previously worked for Shell Oil Company and P.T. Freeport Indonesia.
Financial Services Nachman Norwood & Parrott’s (NNP) managing director Bob Nachman was ranked among Barron’s Top 1200 Financial Advisors in the country for 2017. Winner’s Circle, a Barron’s research organization, produced the rankings based on data provided by more than 4,000 of the nation’s most productive advi20
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sors. Among the factors taken into consideration for the rankings are assets under management, business production, regulatory record, quality of practice, and philanthropic work. The South Carolina State Housing Finance and Development Authority (SC Housing) has named Prime Lending Company as its Mortgage Tax Credit Lender of the Year in recognition of their production level during the past year. Prime Lending produced total home mortgage tax credits of $6.3 million, making homeownership more affordable for more households in South Carolina. The Harvest Wealth Advisory team has joined Raymond James & Associates in the downtown Greenville office. Jef Lockman serves as Harvest Wealth Advisory’s first vice president, investments, and was previously a financial advisor with Wells Fargo Advisors. Lockman has been in the financial services industry for 24 years and serves a broad clientele, including business owners, families, and individuals. Lockman is joined by two team members. Aaron Galloway is a financial advisor, and Whitney Burton is a registered client service associate.
Sanitation Terry Turner received the Greater Greenville Sanitation District Stewardship Award, which recognizes individuals, communities, businesses, and nonprofit organizations that provide leadership in environmental protection and practice in the areas of waste reduction, recycling, and litter prevention. Turner is the president of Welcome, Tanglewood, and Carolina Crime Watch Community Action.
Environmentalism Sally Boman joined Upstate Forever as communications director. A Greenville native, she graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a bachelor’s degree in liberal studies and from Virginia Tech with a master’s degree in English. Boman will develop a communications strategy to broaden the organization’s exposure, assist with grant-related materials, and create marketing collateral for events and campaigns. CONTRIBUTE: New hires, promotions, & award winners may be featured in On the Move. Send information and photos to onthemove@upstatebusinessjournal.com.
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Zipit Wireless, a provider of business and technology solutions for the internet of things (IoT), has announced the issuance by the U.S. Patent Office of a patent covering the remote device management technologies that are an integral part of Zipit’s IoT Platform. Zipit’s cloud-based enterprise messaging solution applies these technologies in order to help organizations like Bon Secours St. Francis Health System, BJ’s Wholesale Club, and Eli Lilly manage their mobile devices and communications. The recently issued Zipit patent covers a server infrastructure used to manage authentication, control, and communication with mobile devices.
ScanSource leaders recognized as 2017 CRN Women of the Channel ScanSource Communications, a leading global provider of communications products and a sales unit of ScanSource Inc. and Intelisys Inc., a ScanSource company, announced today that CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, has named five leaders to its prestigious 2017 Women of the Channel list: Carol Beering, senior vice president, sales operations, Intelisys; Yvette McKenzie, vice president of merchandising, ScanSource communications; Stacey Pompei, vice president, supplier management and general counsel, Intelisys; Samantha Zuniga-Juarez, director of support services, West and Central region, Intelisys; and Diane Frazzetta, director of support services, East region, Intelisys. CRN editors select the Women of the Channel honorees based on their professional accomplishments, demonstrated expertise, and ongoing dedication to the IT channel.
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Solve. Serve. Grow. Those three words summarize Jackson Marketing Group’s guiding principles, and according to owner Larry Jackson, form the motivation that has kept the firm thriving for the past 25 years.
Jackson graduated from Bob Jones University with a degree in video and film production and started his 41-year career in the communications industry with the U.S. Army’s Public Information Office. He served during
Vietnam, where he said he was “luckily” stationed in the middle of Texas at Fort Hood. He left the service and went to work in public affairs and motorsports at Ford Motor Company in Detroit. After a stint at Bell and Howell, where he was responsible for managing Ford’s dealer marketing and training, the entrepreneurial bug hit and he co-founded Jackson-Dawson Marketing Communications, a company specializing in dealer training and product launches for the auto industry in 1980. In 1987, Jackson wanted to move back south and thought Greenville would be a good fit. An avid pilot, he
learned of an opportunity to purchase Cornerstone Aviation, a fixed base operation (FBO) that served as a service station for the Greenville Downtown Airport, providing fuel, maintenance and storage. In fact, when he started the Greenville office of what is now Jackson Marketing Group (JMG) in 1988, the offices were housed on the second floor in an airport hangar. “Clients would get distracted by the airplanes in the hangars and we’d have to corral them to get back upstairs to the meeting,” Jackson said. Jackson sold the FBO in 1993, but says it was a great way to get to know Greenville’s fathers and leaders
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with a majority of them utilizing the general aviation airport as a “corporate gateway to the city.” In 1997, Jackson and his son, Darrell, launched Jackson Motorsports Group. The new division was designed to sell race tires and go to racetracks to sell and mount the tires. Darrell Jackson now serves as president of the motorsports group and Larry Jackson has two other children and a son-in-law who work there. Jackson said all his children started at the bottom and “earned their way up.” Jackson kept the Jackson-Dawson branches in Detroit and others in Los Angeles and New York until he sold his portion of that partnership in 2009 as part of his estate planning. The company now operates a small office in Charlotte, but its main headquarters are in Greenville in a large office space off Woodruff Road, complete with a vision gallery that displays local artwork and an auditorium Jackson makes available for non-profit use. The Motorsports Group is housed in an additional 26,000 square feet building just down the street, and the agency is currently looking for another 20,000 square feet. Jackson said JMG has expanded into other verticals such as financial, healthcare, manufacturing and pro-bono work, but still has a strong focus on the auto industry and transportation. It’s
also one of the few marketing companies in South Carolina to handle all aspects of a project in-house, with four suites handling video production, copywriting, media and research and web design. Clients include heavyweights such as BMW, Bob Jones University, the Peace Center, Michelin and Sage Automotive. Recent projects have included an interactive mobile application for Milliken’s arboretum and 600-acre Spartanburg campus and a marketing campaign for the 2013 Big League World Series. “In my opinion, our greatest single achievement is the longevity of our client relationships,” said Darrell Jackson. “Our first client from back in 1988 is still a client today. I can count on one hand the number of clients who have gone elsewhere in the past decade.” Larry Jackson says his Christian faith and belief in service to others, coupled with business values rooted in solving clients’ problems, have kept
2009 Jackson Dawson changes name to Jackson marketing Group when larry sells his partnership in Detroit and lA 2003
2009-2012 Jackson marketing Group named a top BtoB agency by BtoB magazine 4 years running
him going and growing his business over the years. He is passionate about giving back and outreach to non-prof non-profits. The company was recently awarded the Community Foundation Spirit Award. The company reaffirmed its commitment to serving the community last week by celebrating its 25th anniversary with a birthday party and a 25-hour Serve-A-Thon partnership with Hands on Greenville and Habitat for Humanity. JMG’s 103 full-time employees worked in shifts around the clock on October 22 and 23 to help construct a house for a deserving family. As Jackson inches towards retirement, he says he hasn’t quite figured out his succession plan yet, but sees the companies staying under the same umbrella. He wants to continue to strategically grow the business. “From the beginning, my father has taught me that this business is all about our people – both our clients and our associates,” said his son, Darrell. “We have created a focus and a culture that strives to solve problems, serve people and grow careers.” Darrell Jackson said he wants to “continue helping lead a culture where we solve, serve and grow. If we are successful, we will continue to grow towards our ultimate goal of becoming the leading integrated marketing communications brand in the Southeast.”
2011 Jackson marketing Group/Jackson motorsports Group employee base reaches 100 people
2008 2012 Jackson marketing Group recognized by Community Foundation with Creative spirit Award
pro-bono/non-proFit / Clients lients American Red Cross of Western Carolinas Metropolitan Arts Council Artisphere Big League World Series The Wilds Advance SC South Carolina Charities, Inc. Aloft Hidden Treasure Christian School
CoMMUnitY nit inVolVeMent nitY in olV inV olVe VeMent & boarD positions lArry JACkson (ChAirmAn): Bob Jones University Board chairman, The Wilds Christian Camp and Conference Center board member, Gospel Fellowship Association board member, Past Greenville Area Development Corporation board member, Past Chamber of Commerce Headquarters Recruiting Committee member, Past Greenville Tech Foundation board member David Jones (Vice President Client services, Chief marketing officer): Hands on Greenville board chairman mike Zeller (Vice President, Brand marketing): Artisphere Board,
Metropolitan Arts Council Board, American Red Cross Board, Greenville Tech Foundation Board, South Carolina Chamber Board
eric Jackson (Jackson motorsports Group sales specialist): Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club Advisory Board
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