Colleges might get deal on space

N. Charleston offers site for Boeing Co. training

The city of North Charleston wants to give the South Carolina technical college system a cut-rate deal on office space the state needs to train Boeing Co. employees. Read More

Weighing deal's costs, benefits

The 787 assembly line that Boeing Co. is building in North Charleston could lift some area residents out of poverty while adding $23 million in expansion costs to local school districts. Read More

New mortgage company Web site

A new nationwide database shines a little more light on the mortgage industry. Read More

Work force swells at plants

787 manufacturer to boost local fuselage production rate

Boeing Co. has brought in hundreds of extra workers to help piece together the 787 fuselage sections at its North Charleston campus. The local head count has surged, increasing to 3,000 workers from about 2,200 last summer, as part of a push to bring the company's two neighboring fuselage plants up to a quicker production rate, said Boeing Charleston spokeswoman Candy Eslinger. Read More

Boeing package signed

Deal spells out minimum employment numbers

Consider it the final handshake. Boeing Co. executives and state officials have signed off on the state incentive agreement that paves the way for the aerospace giant's future $750 million 787 Dreamliner plant in North Charleston. Read More

State seeks federal funding

Agency teaming up with nonprofit counselors

State officials are asking for millions of dollars in federal money to help struggling homeowners save their properties from foreclosure. Read More

C of C center ends Home Value Index project

Like so many other real estate ventures in this strained market, the College of Charleston Home Value Index is dead. Read More

Area faces tough competition for supplier jobs

Boeing Co.'s 787 Dreamliner assembly line came with the hope of hundreds of supplier jobs that will crop up to support the aerospace giant as it pieces together the new passenger jets in North Charleston. But those jobs aren't necessarily coming to the Lowcountry. Read More

Department requesting a move

Officials want visiting executives to have privacy

Charleston County's main administrative building in North Charleston hosts public meetings and holds tax collection offices, but it simply won't do for the purpose of convincing executives to bring new jobs to the Lowcountry. Read More

ESC facing transition

Reform likely to trigger business tax increases

South Carolina relies on an unemployment benefits-payment system that's easily abused by workers and by companies that find it cheaper to lay off employees than keep them on the payroll during seasonal slowdowns, according to a months-long analysis by The Post and Courier. Read More