Business

Business Briefs - February 14, 2019

MARK ERICKSON JOINS COLLIERS INTERNATIONAL’S CHARLESTON OFFICE Daniel Island resident Mark Erickson, SIOR, a brokerage professional with experience in tenant and landlord representation, has joined the Charleston office of Colliers International | South Carolina as an industrial and office...

Put down the phones and bring back meaningful conversations

“The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.” - Michel de Montaigne, The Essay: A Selection. As I was being escorted to a table in a restaurant not long ago, I passed by a family seated at a long table. There must have been five or six gathered around. What...

Business Briefs - January 31, 2019

JW ALUMINUM SIGNS LEASE FOR 22,000 SF OF OFFICE SPACE ON DI JW Aluminum, a leading North American manufacturer of flat-rolled aluminum products, has signed a lease with Daniel Island Sun, LLC to occupy 22,000 square feet of Class A office space at The Landing, 115 Fairchild Street on Daniel Island...

Business Briefs - January 24, 2019

DI RESIDENT LAUNCHES ISLAND HOUSE REAL ESTATE Daniel Island resident Tricia Peterson has launched a new brokerage known as as Island House Real Estate. The brokerage opened in December 2018. With the assistance of a full time marketing professional, Island House Real Estate focuses on aggressively...

Business Briefs - January 17, 2019

BEECH OPENS ON DANIEL ISLAND Poke bowls, acai bowls, and juice are always on the menu at Beech, which just opened their second location in the Charleston area on Daniel Island. “We like to call ourselves your local healthy option,” said co-owner Keegan Bird. Located at 864 Island Park Drive Suite...

Five traits of extra mile leaders

“There are no shortcuts on the extra mile.” – Zig Ziglar Bob Kuechenberg, the former Miami Dolphins great, once explained what motivated him to go to college. “My father and uncle were human cannonballs in carnivals. My father told me, ‘go to college or be a cannonball.’ Then one day my uncle came...

Daniel Island's professional business community is expected to grow in 2019

Everywhere folks turn, it seems that “development” is the buzzword around Daniel Island. Buildings are going up and leases are getting signed, bringing business upon business to the island’s downtown area. And with the Small Business Optimism Index reaching highs in 2018 and Daniel Island economist...

How to finish the year strong

Life’s battles don’t always go To the stronger or faster man, But soon or late the man who wins Is the one who thinks he can. - From, The Man Who Thinks He Can, by Walter D. Wintle The Greeks had a race in their Olympic games that was unique. The winner was not the runner who finished first. It...

Charleston Women in Tech talk technology at Blackbaud

A neuroscientist, an engineer, a CEO, a professor, an innovation director and many more local luminaries representing women in the Charleston tech/business community lit up the new Blackbaud world headquarters earlier this month. Female leaders with vast and varied experience in technology shared...

Steve Slifer forecasts a sunny near future

Lauded economist and Numbernomics creator Steve Slifer has a positive forecast for the immediate future of the economy. “There’s no doubt in my mind that we’re going to see the stock market hit new highs as we go throughout 2019,” he said at his annual Economic Outlook Conference, held on Dec. 6...