Jane Morrow

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.

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.

1 month ago | wilmingtonbiz.com | Emma Dill |Katrina M. Knight |Janet Kane |Jane Morrow

Work is moving ahead on a new intermodal rail yard at the Port of Wilmington, with the project on track for completion next year. The $22.5 million intermodal rail yard project broke ground in the fall of 2024, according to a N.C. Ports spokesperson. It will add four new working tracks to the Port of Wilmington’s container terminal with a combined length of 5,000 feet.

1 month ago | wilmingtonbiz.com | Cece Nunn |Jane Morrow |Chris Coudriet |Jennifer Adams

Investors recently paid more than $2.5 million for property in Wilmington that comes with government approvals for a 61-unit residential development. Bradley Heights – a “cottage courtyard” housing project planned on a little over 7 acres off Oleander Drive and Peiffer Avenue – was at one time set to hold rental units. But the rental plan has changed.