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Monster to invest $28M, create 350 jobs
Friday, 27 June 2008
FLORENCE -- Monster, the online job-search company, soon will be searching for employees in South Carolina. The Maynard, Mass.-based company announced Thursday plans to open a customer-service center in Florence where it will employ 350 people by fall.

Read more at The (Columbia) State...
 
First Citizens, Orangeburg bank to merge
Friday, 27 June 2008
COLUMBIA -- An economy that is hammering bank stocks and choking growth. is leading banks to buy competitors to beef up their size and increase their efficiency. On Thursday, Columbia-based First Citizens bank agreed to buy a small bank with branches from Orangeburg to Northeast Richland for $94 million, increasing the family-owned bank’s share of the area market.

Read more at The (Columbia) State...
 
Florence County Council to reveal ‘Project JLL’
Thursday, 26 June 2008

FLORENCE -- Florence County Council is scheduled to take its final votes today on incentives for “Project JLL” and plans to reveal the company behind the $28 million investment anticipated to bring 750 jobs to the area. County documents describe Project JLL as “a Massachusetts corporation whose identity has been disclosed to County Council.”

Read more at The (Florence) Morning News...

 
Statewide home sales plunge 23%
Thursday, 26 June 2008
COLUMBIA -- Home sales were bleak in the Columbia area and throughout South Carolina in May, a time when the selling season should be in full bloom. The Columbia area’s sales, as well as sales statewide, sank 23% from May of last year — the biggest one-month loss of 2008.

Read more at The (Columbia) State...
 
Falling gas-tax fund may take toll on road projects
Wednesday, 25 June 2008

COLUMBIA -- South Carolina’s fuel tax revenues, which the state uses to build and repair roads and bridges, have dipped the past two months and are expected to continue to decline, a DOT official told a congressional highway subcommittee in Washington.

Read more at The Greenville News...

 
Alliance likely to reject 'Greenville/Spartanburg'
Wednesday, 25 June 2008

GREENVILLE -- The Upstate Alliance will likely reject a recommendation to use Greenville/Spartanburg in its name, an Alliance official said. The change is one of many options the Alliance is considering as it prepares a new strategic plan.

Read more at The Greenville News...

 
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