Retail & Hospitality
The department store’s West Ashley location is shutting down as MUSC turns much of the mall into a medical campus. Workers will move to Dillard’s Northwoods Mall store in North Charleston.
Retail & Hospitality
The 55-seat restaurant from Fonda Fina Hospitality, whose concepts include three Michelin-starred restaurants, is on the ground floor of The Charlee on Cannon in downtown Charleston.
Real Estate
A settlement with conservation groups would permanently protect more than 200 acres of the 229-acre Awendaw tract once approved for more than 200 homes. The parties plan to close in December.
Real Estate
City Council holds a public hearing Nov. 10 on new permit fees that would take effect Jan. 1. The city says the fees cover what it costs to review plans and inspect work.
Economy
County Council gave first reading to a 20-year tax increment financing plan around Ashley Phosphate and Dorchester roads. Dorchester District Two and North Charleston still have to sign on.
Transportation
The renewed half-cent tax lists $230 million for the boulevard’s intersection with Houston Northcutt Boulevard, the biggest project on Mount Pleasant’s list. Town officials say they will bring options to a committee and the public.
Health Care
The dental practice plans to open in spring 2027 at the 34-acre development on Betsy Kerrison Parkway, joining a Roper St. Francis family medicine office among the tenants.
Manufacturing
The settlement is open to about 115,000 to 120,000 people who blame PFAS chemicals in firefighting foam for cancers and other illnesses. U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel has set a Nov. 20 hearing on it, The Post and Courier reported.
DefenseAnalysis
Federal agencies obligated about $2 billion for contract work in Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties from October through June, leaving out a Summerville consortium manager. A Charleston Business Report analysis finds Coast Guard spending jumped to $495 million, while the Navy’s fell 16%.
Manufacturing
The North Charleston specialty materials company earned $51.1 million from continuing operations in the third quarter on 8% lower sales, and narrowed its full-year earnings outlook.
Transportation
Charleston and the state Transportation Department will mark the drawbridge’s centennial Nov. 9. The 1926 span, built as a World War I memorial, still carries traffic out of downtown to West Ashley.
Manufacturing
The settlement surfaced in Century’s quarterly report Nov. 5, as the company posted a $302.6 million third-quarter profit with its Goose Creek restart complete.
Transportation
Police shut the $8 million pedestrian bridge on the upper peninsula in February. Highland Resources says the city is finishing the work needed to connect it to the Magnolia Landing development.
Real Estate
A council committee backed the higher price after one of three landowners blocked a $7.56 million deal. City Council is scheduled to take up the purchase Nov. 10.
Economy
Unofficial results show Democrats taking two Republican-held seats, which would turn the council’s 5-4 Republican majority into a 6-3 Democratic one. The council will oversee the $4.25 billion sales tax voters renewed the same day.
Real Estate
A council committee backed the Open Space Institute’s request to buy the Avocet Tract and turn it into a public forest. It is the largest of nine Greenbelt requests that go to the full council Nov. 10.
Economy
The extension, worth up to $4.25 billion over 25 years, won about 64% of the vote in unofficial results, two years after voters rejected a plan built around the Mark Clark Expressway.
Transportation
The money would come from the city’s own budget, on top of $22 million for bike and pedestrian work from the sales tax voters approved Nov. 3. City Council takes up the spending plan Nov. 17.
Retail & Hospitality
The third Charleston edition of the Aspen festival’s spinoff runs Nov. 13 to 15, with Eric Ripert, Carla Hall and Andrew Zimmern among the visiting chefs.
Real Estate
Charleston’s Design Review Board gave preliminary approval to three three-story buildings off Maybank Highway, on the condition that the landscaping swap dwarf crepe myrtles for a native species.
Defense
The base wants proposals to repair two taxiways at its training airfield in North, S.C., and gave firms more time on a maintenance contract worth up to $27.5 million. The Army Corps is looking for companies to fix a dock.
Defense
NIWC Atlantic posted draft documents and answers to industry questions for radio, encryption and maintenance software work. Its forecast puts the three at $110 million to $250 million combined.
Retail & Hospitality
The owners of Blind Tiger Pub next door built an all-day French bistro with a courtyard under a retractable roof. It was set to open Nov. 5, months later than first planned.
Defense
Detyens Shipyards will overhaul and dry-dock the USNS Leroy Grumman and give the newer USNS Robert F. Kennedy a midterm repair period starting in January. Both ships spent part of 2026 at the yard.
Economy
Wilson won about 52% of the vote statewide in unofficial results but lost Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester counties. Republicans kept the state House but lost their two-thirds supermajority.
Economy
The extension won 68% of the vote in unofficial results. It keeps the 1-cent tax for school construction in place from 2029 through 2034, a period in which it is expected to raise about $1.25 billion.
Economy
The tax passed with about 60% of the vote in unofficial results. It starts April 1, 2027, and can run up to 15 years, with 85% of the money going to Dorchester School District Two.
Real Estate
Council members said Middle Street Partners’ plan packs in too many homes, and some questioned turning more commercial land into housing. The town’s Planning Commission has recommended denial.
Real Estate
An Atlanta firm and a Charleston partner bought Rivergate I and II on Lacross Road. They plan to court doctors and other health care tenants as the $1.2 billion Roper St. Francis campus rises next door.
EconomyAnalysis
Federal utility data show Dominion Energy’s residential customers paid an average of 16.4 cents per kilowatt-hour last year, up 12.5%. A Charleston Business Report analysis finds every utility serving the region charged homes and businesses more, as Santee Cooper’s board voted Oct. 30 to raise rates again in 2027 and 2028.
Real EstateAnalysis
Mortgage companies owned by Lennar and D.R. Horton were the region’s two biggest home purchase lenders, and builder-owned lenders made more than a quarter of the loans in Berkeley County. A Charleston Business Report analysis of federal lending records finds their FHA and VA borrowers got a median rate of 4.99%, compared with 6.125% at other lenders.
Transportation
Detyens Shipyards says the owner of the Victory I owes $790,666 for repairs, storage and other services. The operator says it disputes some of the charges, and its only ship isn’t sailing.
Health Care
The Charleston nonprofit that coordinates organ donation for most of South Carolina landed in the federal bottom tier every year from 2020 to 2023, and a federal judge has rejected its lawsuit against the grading system. Its federal agreement runs out Jan. 31 unless CMS extends it.
Real Estate
The owners of the North Charleston site, bought for $9.5 million in June, are donating it to the youth nonprofit, which hopes to open there in 2029 and double the number of children it serves.
EconomyAnalysis
Lenders made 137 SBA 7(a) loans in Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties in the year ended Sept. 30, down from 213. A Charleston Business Report analysis of federal loan records finds loans of $1 million or less fell 40%, while larger loans held steady.
Health Care
A Charleston Business Report tally of state award records finds MUSC and its hospital authority won 18 grants worth $18.6 million, about 11% of the $167.3 million awarded in September. Hollings Cancer Center has started taking prostate screening on the road.
Manufacturing
The directive takes effect Dec. 7 and covers an estimated 60 U.S.-registered Dreamliners. It doesn’t say where the affected jets were built.
Technology
The company ranked No. 21 on the trade publication’s 2027 FreightTech 25. It says five of the 10 largest U.S. importers use its software.
Retail & Hospitality
Town Council gave the rule unanimous first-reading approval after a smoke and vape shop applied for signs near Moultrie Middle School. A second and final vote is still to come.
Health Care
A Charleston Business Report analysis of HealthCare.gov plan data finds the plan that sets federal tax credits rose more in Charleston County than in all but two South Carolina counties. Open enrollment runs through Jan. 15.
TechnologyAnalysis
New Census Bureau estimates put the region’s share at 4.2%, above South Carolina’s but below the nation’s 5.5%. A Charleston Business Report analysis finds the gaps run between Charleston County and its suburban neighbors, and between homeowners and renters.
Retail & Hospitality
More than 207,000 people came through James Island County Park’s light show last season. This year a carload costs $15 to $45, depending on the night.
Health Care
Medicare’s base payment per treatment rises to $297.52. Federal data show Fresenius Medical Care, DaVita and Dialysis Clinic Inc. operate every dialysis facility in Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester counties.
