Rickie Houston

1 week ago | wilmingtonbiz.com | Rickie Houston |Robert T. Burrus |McAuley Hollis |Luke P. Wheeler

More than 20 locals gathered Thursday evening at a community meeting to discuss a potential conditional rezoning for 2929 Market St., currently the location of the Azalea Inn & Suites. If developers succeed in getting a zoning that allows multifamily development, "affordable" apartments could replace the motel, which was built in 1963, according to tax records. The property is currently zoned O&I, office and institutional, the records show.

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 | Rickie Houston |Rosalie Calarco |Robert T. Burrus |Girard Newkirk

Local substance abuse treatment centers offer an array of services to individuals in need, including substance use and mental health treatment, crisis intervention, nonmedical detox services, long-term recovery services and more. Among the several health treatment centers in town, Coastal Horizons and The Healing Place have worked relentlessly to meet community demand.

3 weeks ago | wilmingtonbiz.com | Rickie Houston |Katrina M. Knight |Daniel B. Winslow |Romondo McEachern

As part of its efforts to grow and raise capital, AI platform Skillmaker.ai has landed several contracts and partnerships, including its most recent partnership with Cape Fear Ventures. The startup accelerates the time it takes to train people to competency, according to Robin Cowie, Skillmaker.ai’s founder and CEO. “Currently, it takes two years for an auto technician to be trained for NAPA. We’re reducing that to 25 days,” he said.

1 month ago | wilmingtonbiz.com | Rickie Houston |Luke P. Wheeler |Gretchen Roberts |Robert T. Burrus

Frontier Scientific Solutions got its start in the pharmaceutical logistics space after CEO Steve Uebele discovered a problem that needed solving. “I started Frontier Scientific Solutions to solve critical gaps I saw in the pharmaceutical supply chain – especially in temperature-controlled logistics, regulatory inefficiencies and fragmented international distribution,” Uebele wrote in an email.