Volume 3, Issue 22
May 30, 2014
MONEY SHOT: The winners of the second annual Spartanburg Main Street Challenge are announced during the final event last week at The Showroom. For more, see page 3.
WORTH REPEATING “The Upstate is stronger together as one region than as individual cities and counties.” Dean Hybl, executive director, Ten at the Top
“Without an engaged and accepted organization that can bind the many entities both large and small, we will all flounder and remain in the quagmire.” Burriss Nelson, director of economic development, Anderson County
“Only through working together can we hope to adequately addressthe issues. If we do, our region will be marketable; if we don’t, we won’t.” Kevin Landmesser, interim president and CEO, Greenville Area Development Corporation
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VERBATIM
On Progress… “Tears came to my eyes as I thought of how magnificently the South has risen to meet and defeat the challenges of racism… This country is far too busy to hate, and Greenville is setting the pace.” Actor, commentator, writer and lawyer Ben Stein, writing in American Spectator about his most recent visit to Greenville. Read more at bit.ly/UBJ-benstein.
May 30, 2014
TBA Word is the former Jack in the Box on Congaree Road near Haywood Mall is set to become a Clock Diner…
Freddy’s Frozen Custard and Steakburgers will open its first South Carolina location soon at 4855 Calhoun Memorial Hwy. in Easley…
A new Moe’s Southwest Grill is also debuting in Easley on Rolling Hills Road. Expect it later this summer…