The Charlotte-based department store chain won court approval of its one-day financial reorganization plan Tuesday afternoon.
Charleston-based Hudson Automotive Group plans to start work in the summer on a 47,000-square-foot Nissan dealership in Summerville.
A moving company that owns a prime King Street location in downtown Charleston wants to build a six-story storage building on its property, but the city says it's not allowed under current land-use restrictions.
A scented product distributor chose York County near Charlotte as the site of a new facility that will employ 200 people the first year.
A new grocery-anchored shopping center coming to the western part of North Charleston along Dorchester Road will include several new stores.
North Creek Market at Nexton will include a variety of retailers and restaurants. The first of them could open by this summer in the retail center under development across from Cane Bay Plantation.
Some Amazon workers are organizing the biggest unionization push at the company since it was founded in 1995. And it's happening in the unlikeliest of places: Bessemer, Alabama, a state with laws that don't favor unions.
The stakes are high. If organizers succeed in Bessemer, it could set off a chain reaction across Amazon's operations nationwide.
Clothing stores continue to come and go on Charleston's King Street while a trio of new restaurants will soon open across the Lowcountry. A bakery will celebrate its new location in Mount Pleasant, where a new generator store will open. And in Goose Creek, a new farmers market launches and a new auto service shop is on the way.
NEW YORK — Behind GameStop's stock surge is the grim reality of its prospects: The video game retailer is floundering even as the industry around it is booming.
A large empty retail space in West Ashley soon will see a new tenant while a restaurant chain continues to expand its footprint across the Charleston area with a new venue opening soon. A new tobacco-based shop will celebrate its grand opening in the Charleston City Market.
He'll be replaced in the fall by Andy Jassy, who runs Amazon's cloud-computing business, and then become the company's executive chair.
Unlike Penney and other troubled chains, Belk vows to keep all 300 or so stores open as it reorganizes it finances. How long can it keep that promise remains to be seen.
A North Charleston principal and longtime county councilman who took on a third job to help low-income students pay their bills was surprised Friday morning with a $50,000 donation from his part-time employer.
The developer of a new shopping center coming to this rapidly growing Berkeley County town says the retail site will be ready for all tenants by the fall of 2022.
Boat sales buoyed by the pandemic as people sought the outdoors away from crowds were reportedly the highest in several years last year, but that has left many dealers with scarce inventory for the annual Charleston Boat Show. Lots of vendors will be on hand for the annual event, but they will have more information about the boat someone is looking to buy rather than the actual boat on the show floor.
Pier 1 Imports vacated its stores in the Charleston area and nationally last year after filing for bankruptcy. Two of the empty sites in the region will soon see new tenants.
The retailer, which the founding family sold for $3 billion to a private equity firm about five years ago, said Tuesday that it expects to emerge from the reorganization quickly, by the end of February.
A fitness site in Mount Pleasant many remember as ECO Fitness after it opened in 2007 is now closed after a co-owner said the coronavirus took its toll and the rent was expensive.
No-frills grocer Lidl plans to give rival Aldi some competition by adding a new store in Mount Pleasant. Another is being built in North Charleston. The first Charleston-area store opened in Goose Creek in 2017.
Opening a new business anytime takes a lot of research, experience and preparation. Opening one during a pandemic can be a trying ordeal. We spoke with three Charleston-area retailers who opened during 2020 since the coronavirus disrupted the norm. These are their stories and advice for others considering taking the plunge into their own operations.
Retail chains Aldi, Lidl, Trader Joe's and Dollar General have all recently announced plans to either pay employees or provide them paid hours off to get inoculated.
When The Post and Courier first reported on Darby’s efforts earlier this week, students, business owners and activists wanted to know how they could help.
A Florida-based restaurant chain with Caribbean flair plans to open its first location in South Carolina in North Charleston by the spring.
The North Charleston principal and councilman donates his earnings at the giant store to help low-income students and families buy food or pay the bills
A women's clothing chain with an outlet store at Tanger Outlets off U.S. 501 filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Wednesday.
The grocer's parent company is phasing out the South Carolina-born chain to focus on its Winn-Dixie division.
An Alabama-based restaurant plans to open a new restaurant concept featuring doughnuts and burgers, among other items, in February, while a Goose Creek flooring retailer will add a second location in Mount Pleasant.
A Savannah-based convenience store chain is creating a $20 million community fund to support charitable causes across its 68-store footprint in coastal Georgia and South Carolina.
Three new grocery stores are on the way to the Charleston area this year. Meanwhile, a flooring store is adding a new location, a flagship mattress store is opening this week and a new restaurant is on the way near the Medical University of South Carolina.
The sale of Taubman Centers, whose founder made a bold bet on the Holy City by bankrolling a stalled $80 million revitalization project nearly 40 years ago, was finalized last week.
A Charleston native created her own activewear line called ICONI after buying expensive, subpar products that people could see through at the gym. Sales for Air Force Capt. Angel Johnson's company took off after Oprah Winfrey recently listed the firm's leggings among her favorite items.
During the coronavirus pandemic, it's been easier — and for many more tempting — to stay inside and shop online. For independent bookstores, a business already struggling against the hegemony of online-only retailers, that's meant a bigger hit to revenue than ever.
NEW YORK — A huge surge in online shopping during the pandemic has been a savior for retailers, but it comes at a price.
Two Charleston-area residents came together earlier this year to transform a former biker bar into a barbecue restaurant in Awendaw. With outdoor seating under a huge pavilion and orders to go, Eliot Middleton and Charles Maker have found steady business during the coronavirus pandemic.
New businesses continue to open throughout the Charleston area. Four new restaurants are in the works while an alcoholic beverage store now offers a wine bar and charcuterie in Mount Pleasant.
The retailer said it'll be shutting 15 locations around the country by late March, on top of the 150 that went dark after it filed for bankruptcy protection earlier this year.
A new discount grocer is coming to Goose Creek, not far from a rival low-cost supermarket.
Actress and talk show host Drew Barrymore gives a shout out to a Lowcountry business on a suggested gift list. Meanwhile, two national auto parts retailers plan to open new stores in the Charleston area while a car repair business on Johns Island changes hands and opens under a new name after extensive repairs.
There were 120 new business licenses and renewals in November in Myrtle Beach compared to 90 in November 2019.
Standing on top of the new Wildes Financial Services Building on Church Street, Jeff Wildes can’t help but think of the team that helped make the 5,500-square-foot building a reality.
A slimmed-down J.C. Penney heads into the back stretch of the holiday shopping season with new owners, less debt and a renewed sense of optimism.
City council approved the first reading of an ordinance at a special meeting Saturday to move forward with construction plans to improve three properties downtown as part of an overall plan to rejuvenate the dilapidated area.
The earlier-than-usual deadlines come as more people turn to online shopping during the pandemic, creating a logjam for shipping companies as well as delivery delays. For some retailers, like H&M and Lego, the deadlines have passed.
JPMorgan said the downtown deal a long-term investment in the city and region. It comes as the peninsula's commercial district tries to recover from the May riots and COVID-19 business closings.
Half-Moon Outfitters will open a new store in Summerville by the winter of 2021-22, its ninth retail location in South Carolina and Georgia and its fourth in the Charleston region.
Two new restaurants will open this week on the Charleston peninsula and next week in northern Mount Pleasant. A new dollar store is coming to a retail center being renovated in Ladson, while a new coffee shop is in the works on James Island. The Holiday Book Sale set for this weekend in Mount Pleasant has been canceled because of the coronavirus.
There were 120 new business licenses and renewals in November in Myrtle Beach compared to 90 in November 2019.
A WINGS Beachwear store with a popular Dunkin Donuts/Baskin Robbins and arcade attached to it has closed.
A look at how COVID-19 has affected some of the Palmetto State's key business sectors.
After a shaky start to the home-buying market in South Carolina with the coronavirus lockdown in the spring, residential real estate transactions jumped 19 percent in October and are closing in on a record sales year. Also, two new student housing development are being proposed for the Charleston peninsula.