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Registered dietitian and physician assistant Colleen Prince recently opened Durham Health and Wellness, which specializes in integrative medicine and aesthetics.
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THE CHANGEUP Durham Bulls Athletic Park
will soon be home to an edible
Victory Garden created by Thrive
RENDERING BY MICHAEL MCCANN
NC. Thanks to a three-year
sponsorship from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, a 1,600-square-foot area of
decorative plants along Jackie
Robinson Drive will be converted
into an edible garden by Bland Landscaping. The space will be used for education,
inspiration and produce collection throughout the year, and the food grown there will be
Virginia-based home builder Stanley Martin plans to construct a neighborhood of more than 100 single family homes in Durham. Located on 70 acres of land near Garrett Road and Cresset Baptist Church, prices for the new homes will start in the mid $400,000s. Technology company SpokeHub unveiled its augmented reality, or AR, social app in March. The AR superimposes a computer-generated image (like the one pictured) onto a user’s view of the real world. Principled Technologies owners Mark L. Van Name and Bill Catchings have released a book about business management, “Limit Your Greed: Put Principles Above Money to Build Better Businesses and a Better World (and Still Make a Profit).” The duo draws on their years of experience as both business owners and employees.
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distributed by the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle to community members in need. Research Triangle Park is opening two new, affordable buildings at The Frontier for small and startup businesses. One of the buildings will have wet lab space – a first in the area for businesses that do not have a university affiliation or a partial stake in the research or product being developed. After working in the engineering industry for 30 years, Christina Ndoh decided to use her passion for education to help local children. She recently opened the Kumon Math and Reading Center of Brier Creek – part of a national franchise that is designed to help children excel in reading and math through self-learning.
JOHN ELKINS
Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering began construction on a new building for education, research and entrepreneurship initiatives in March. Scheduled for completion in late 2020, this $115 million project will expand the engineering school’s teaching space by 50%.
A full-service retail boutique specializing in direct-to-garment digital printing, Big Frog Custom T-Shirts & More at 1125 W. N.C. Hwy. 54, Ste. 316, celebrated its ribbon-cutting and grand opening in February.
WHAT AN HONOR
Durham is among the 35 Champion Cities chosen by Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Mayors Challenge. Our city will receive $100,000 to refine and test ideas over the next six months to
address what leaders identified as our most pressing issue: car dependency. The city will then submit a new application in August, and will find out in October if it’s one of the four cities that will receive $1 million awards or the one that will receive a grand prize of $5 million to bring its ideas to life. Sarah O’Brien was awarded REALTOR® of the Year at the Durham Regional Association of REALTORS® Awards Luncheon at Hope Valley Country Club. The Durham and Raleigh metro area was ranked No. 7 on a list of the 100 Best Places to Live in the country by U.S. News & World Report, which noted our region is “luring nearly 80 new residents a day with strong job growth and a high quality of life.” WalletHub named Durham the best mid-sized city for college basketball and the fourth best overall U.S. city for college basketball. Livability named the Triangle one of the five tech hot spots in the U.S.