 "You can’t just build buildings, you’ve got to build communities,” says Dale Goodrich, looking over his shoulder at a view of Apalache Lake. The owner of Upstate Developers LLC focuses on historic renovations. His latest development — an adaptive reuse of the old Apalache textile mill in Greer — furthers this belief.
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 When Rock Hill Mayor Doug Echols approached Gary Williams in 2006 about moving his business from Manchester Village to the city’s Textile Corridor, Williams told Echols he flat-out was not interested. The building Echols proposed was the Cotton Factory, the first textile mill built in Rock Hill and the first steam-powered mill in the state. The 85,000-square-foot, 127-year-old building offered a great location in the center of downtown Rock Hill, but the Cotton Factory, like the other four textile mills in the 270-acre area now known as the Textile Corridor, had fallen into disrepair and was in dire need of revitalization.
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 Carolyn Summers had heard the rumors, and tension was in the air. It was 2005 and Springs Industries Inc., the home furnishings and specialty fabric maker now known as Springs Global, was feeling heavy competition from overseas and had to cut back. A few of Summers’ co-workers had been laid off from their jobs, but Summers, who had worked for the company for 42 years, still hoped she wouldn’t lose hers.
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 A drive along the interstates and back roads of the Palmetto state highlights not only its changing landscape — from the highlands and Piedmont to maritime forest and salt marsh — but also its manageable size, revealing that South Carolina is as diverse as it is compact.
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 Doreen Sullivan apologizes for being just a few minutes late to the interview, and as she eases herself into a seat at Starbucks in the heart of Columbia’s bustling Congaree Vista, it’s clear this businesswoman has a contagious energy. She gives a warm hello and in the same breath starts to describe her company’s latest project launch — a set of silicone bracelets called the Official U.S. Olympic Team Rings. She leans over and says, “Think ‘the next Lance Armstrong cause awareness piece.’”
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 Earlier this year, while state lawmakers were debating how much money to wave in front of moviemakers, producers for Nailed, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Biel, already were filming at the state capitol in Columbia. Similarly, Gold Circle Films production executive Dylan Tarason said that, even though other states offered more “soft money” incentives, the company shot The New Daughter, starring Kevin Costner, along the S.C. coastline.
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 After 17 years at the helm of the S.C. Chamber of Commerce, S. Hunter Howard Jr., is going home to Simpsonville. In his retirement announcement to the chamber board earlier this year, Howard jokingly compared himself to the film character Forrest Gump, who, after thousands of miles, stopped running but had nothing profound to say to onlookers, only: “I think I’ll go home now.”
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 In the heart of downtown Summerton, population 1,050, Wendy Cogdill serves homemade soups and chicken salad at Wen-Lily’s, a combination café and gift shop in a 1,600-square-foot building that once housed her husband’s grandmother’s grocery store.
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 John Knott Jr. was building green long before it came into vogue. A third-generation builder and developer, sustainable building was just part of his family’s way of doing business. In 1994, just as Knott was moving forward with the preservation-minded development of Dewees Island just north of Charleston, the Rocky Mountain Institute contacted Knott to tell him he was one of three leading sustainable developers in the country.
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