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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 month ago | 
wilmingtonbiz.com | Tully Ryan |Natalie English |Jennifer Adams
It's the 14th year in a row Kent Homes has earned the award "for demonstrating exceptional customer service within the residential construction industry," the release stated. Since 2005, GuildQuality, an Atlanta-based third-party customer satisfaction surveying company, has the Guildmaster Award to recognize and celebrate home building, remodeling and contracting professionals and their customer service levels within the U.S. and Canada, according to the release.
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1 month ago | 
wilmingtonbiz.com | Emma Dill |John Monahan |Natalie English |Amy Sullivan
In a recent $3.7 million transaction, developers closed on 25 acres in Leland where they plan to develop a nearly 132,000-square-foot, Publix-anchored shopping center. The project, called Leland Village, is expected to include retailer Marshalls and cosmetics chain Ulta as junior anchors, along with a mix of local and national retailers and service providers.
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1 month ago | 
wilmingtonbiz.com | Emma Dill |Heather McWhorter |Jessie Powell |Natalie English
The developers of Mayfaire West, a proposal that could bring close to 500 new apartments, carriage houses and townhomes to the Mayfaire area, detailed their plans and fielded resident questions and concerns during a community meeting this week. Officials with project developer BrodyCo say the planned community, slated for around 42 acres between Town Center Drive and Gregory Road, would include 256 apartments and 223 carriage houses and townhomes.
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1 month ago | 
wilmingtonbiz.com | Cece Nunn |Natalie English |Robert Parker |McAuley Hollis
City officials will consider measures related to a senior housing development during a meeting tonight as demand for the housing type continues to grow. The Wilmington City Council's agenda includes a resolution to provide gap funding to a company, Wallick Communities, that wants to build a $14 million, 48-unit affordable senior housing development at 710 N. Kerr Ave.
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1 month ago | 
wilmingtonbiz.com | Emma Dill |Dave Orr |Natalie English |Robert T. Burrus
Brett Caines, co-founder and CEO of Lumos Technologies Inc., got his crash course in banking at Wilmington-headquartered Live Oak Bank. He joined the Live Oak team in 2007 when the early-stage firm was organizing to become a bank. In 2011, Caines became the company’s chief financial officer – a role he held until he left to start Lumos Technologies with Stephen Hayes and Youri Nelson, also former Live Oak employees, in 2021.
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1 month ago | 
wilmingtonbiz.com | Vicky Janowski |Natalie English |Luke P. Wheeler |Katrina M. Knight
That’s one of the pieces of advice we give our Coastal Entrepreneur Award judges each year when they’re faced with the task of making their picks. Who shows high-growth potential? Who is making a name for themselves and cutting through the noise? Who, out of these stacks and stacks of nominations, do you see as entrepreneurial? Our panel of outside judges deliberated and picked the 11 category winners in this year’s CEA process.
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1 month ago | 
wilmingtonbiz.com | Emma Dill |Natalie English |Jim Hundley |Larry Shaheen
Modular spaces from Wilmington-based company Infinite Structures appeared this year at the Super Bowl, Coachella and at the bottom of the half pipe at Shaun White’s inaugural The Snow League event in Aspen, Colorado. For Infinite Structures CEO David Fioravanti, the Aspen event was one of the coolest projects the company has worked on so far – a three-story glass VIP building right at the bottom of the half pipe.
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1 month ago | 
wilmingtonbiz.com | Cece Nunn |Robert T. Burrus |Natalie English |Rosalie Calarco
Cleaning the interior of a seafaring vessel “is way more complicated than other types of places,” explained Krystina Fuge, owner of Maritime Maids. Maritime Maids is an interior yacht cleaning company and concierge business. Fuge said in an email that the cleaning part of Maritime Maids “requires a completely different systematic approach on what to clean, how to clean it and what products to clean it with.
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1 month ago | 
wilmingtonbiz.com | Jenny Callison |Natalie English |Daniel B. Winslow |Jason Wheeler
Rare disease has shaped not only Drew Harrison’s life; it has become his career motivation and propelled his entrepreneurial journey. After an early career in the life sciences, in 2011 Harrison accepted a business development position with a prominent clinical research organization (CRO). His primary interest was in the nice financial returns it offered, but also, he said, he wanted to explore the industry. “I started in an entry-level position,” he said. “It was a great experience.
