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1 week ago | 
wilmingtonbiz.com | Cece Nunn |Rickie Houston |Natalie English |Jane Morrow
For this year’s Coastal Entrepreneur of the Year, the journey started, as many entrepreneurial journeys do, with an important question. “How do we make sure life-saving therapies get to the people who need them without delay, without compromise?”Frontier Scientific Solutions, the 2025 Coastal Entrepreneur of the Year, wanted to come up with an answer. “That one question sparked a mission that spans time zones, temperature zones and regulatory zones most of us didn’t know existed.
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1 week ago | 
wilmingtonbiz.com | Cece Nunn |Jane Morrow |Chris Capone |David Rizzo
On the front lines of health care, parts of the year 2021 were “bananas.”That’s one of the ways Wilmington-based physician Umar Bowers describes the hectic nature of that time, a period when the Omicron variant of global pandemic culprit COVID-19 swept through the U.S.Umar Bowers and nurse practitioner Tiffany Bowers, Umar’s wife, opened Dawson Med, which includes an urgent care and primary care practice, in August 2021.
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2 weeks ago | 
wilmingtonbiz.com | Cece Nunn |John Zachary |Gretchen Roberts |Janet Kane
New Hanover County Board of Commissioners chairman Bill Rivenbark and commissioners Dane Scalise and LeAnn Pierce, all Republicans, voted in favor of the spending plan, while the Democrats on the board, commissioners Rob Zapple and Stephanie Walker, voted against the measure. Stating their opposition throughout a tense budget workshop Thursday afternoon, Zapple and Walker described the cuts as taking services away from the community and losing employees the county needs.
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2 weeks ago | 
wilmingtonbiz.com | Cece Nunn |Jessie Powell |Chris Coudriet |Tully Ryan
The New Hanover Community Endowment has granted $1.6 million to New Hanover County amid county budget talks centered around whether to increase taxes or not in the next fiscal year. It's the same amount that could have been allocated to nonprofits through the county budget, coming from county coffers, in budget proposals this year.
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2 weeks ago | 
wilmingtonbiz.com | Laura Moore |Cece Nunn |Luke P. Wheeler |Rosalie Calarco
“There was not much advocacy before 2013, not many people in the room,” said Jim Roberts, founder of Network for Entrepreneurs in Wilmington (NEW) and Wilmington Angels for Local Entrepreneurs (WALE). 2013 marked the start of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, headed at the time by Roberts.
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1 month ago | 
wilmingtonbiz.com | Cece Nunn |Jason Wheeler |Jessie Powell |Jim Hundley
Nest Realty has found a new nest in Carolina Beach. The residential real estate firm leased space in the commercial portion of new mixed-use complex Proximity at Carolina Beach at 904 N. Lake Park Blvd. Not that the company doesn’t like its current building at 112 Cape Fear Blvd. in the New Hanover County beach town. Nest occupies the first floor of the building the firm bought in 2019 for just under $1 million, said Ryan Crecelius, principal broker of Nest Realty Wilmington.
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1 month ago | 
wilmingtonbiz.com | Cece Nunn |Luke P. Wheeler |Rosalie Calarco |McAuley Hollis
For this year’s Coastal Entrepreneur of the Year, the journey started, as many entrepreneurial journeys do, with an important question. “How do we make sure life-saving therapies get to the people who need them without delay, without compromise?”Frontier Scientific Solutions, the 2025 Coastal Entrepreneur of the Year, wanted to come up with an answer. “That one question sparked a mission that spans time zones, temperature zones and regulatory zones most of us didn't know existed.
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1 month ago | 
wilmingtonbiz.com | Cece Nunn |Girard Newkirk |Jordan Cain |Chris Coudriet
New Hanover County commissioners want the county's staff to crunch their numbers again after hearing a recommended tax rate for the next fiscal year’s budget on Monday. The $488.5 million New Hanover County budget presented to commissioners Monday morning as a recommendation includes a 10-cent property tax rate cut, from the current 45 cents to 35 cents. Because of the tax revaluation the county performed this year, the lower rate doesn’t equate to lower tax bills.
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1 month ago | 
wilmingtonbiz.com | Cece Nunn |Chris Capone |Ernie Bovio |McAuley Hollis
The building that once housed defunct toy store chain Toys R Us and then a furniture retailer in Wilmington is expected to get new life as an international grocery store. The owners of Tropicana Supermarkets bought 4510 Oleander Drive, previously occupied by Kimbrell's Furniture, for $5.4 million, according to tax records. Kimbrell's had purchased the nearly 45,000-square-foot building for $4.45 million in 2019. The story of Tropicana Supermarkets began more than 20 years ago.
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1 month ago | 
wilmingtonbiz.com | Cece Nunn |Jennifer Adams |McAuley Hollis |Girard Newkirk
When tourism officials from communities across North Carolina get together for their annual conference, they can count on one discussion topic rising above the rest. “Every year, what’s the No. 1 issue sitting up there for the tourism industry? School calendar,” said Kim Hufham, president and CEO of the Wilmington and Beaches Convention & Visitors Bureau. The same was true this year during the 2025 Visit NC Tourism Conference held in April in Hickory.
