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1 week ago | wilmingtonbiz.com | Vicky Janowski |Janeé L Folston |Tully Ryan |Dave Orr

Bryce Dill started as manager of the Wilmington plant for the New York-based company, taking the role over from Russ Lopatka, who is now serving as Corning’s North America manufacturing manager for optical fiber. About 1,000 people now work at the Wilmington facility, which opened in 1966. The Wilmington facility, originally an electrical resistors facility in the 1960s, was converted over time into an optical fiber plant and continues to be a staple facility for Corning.

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.

3 weeks ago | wilmingtonbiz.com | Emma Dill |Tully Ryan |Amy Sullivan |Chris Coudriet

Wilmington leaders adopted a first reading of the city’s budget on Tuesday, which includes thousands of dollars in funding for local economic development initiatives and incentives. The budget, which totals over $306 million, was adopted through a series of ordinances by the Wilmington City Council on Tuesday. It will come before the council for a second reading on June 17 and, if adopted, would go into effect on July 1.

1 month ago | wilmingtonbiz.com | Emma Dill |David Rizzo |Tully Ryan |John Monahan

Local transportation leaders are set to vote, again, on keeping a toll on the table to help fund the replacement of the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge. The Wilmington Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (WMPO) board will consider a resolution at its meeting on Wednesday to support including the bridge replacement project as a toll facility in the N.C. Department of Transportation’s upcoming State Transportation Improvement Program, or STIP.

1 month ago | wilmingtonbiz.com | Emma Dill |Tully Ryan |Amy Sullivan |Janet Kane

A recently completed mixed-use development in Hampstead will host a grand opening event this weekend. Oyster Creek Landing is a new project from Double Dimension LLC, the owner of Progress Point, a mixed-use retail and office development on Military Cutoff Road in Wilmington. According to a news release, Oyster Creek Landing is Double Dimension LLC’s first project in the Hampstead area. The development features ground-floor retail spaces, with professional office suites above, the release stated.