Roper St. Francis Healthcare has moved closer to the construction of their new Mount Pleasant hospital by recently announcing Charlotte, N.C.-based BE&K Building Group as the project’s general contractor for its planned 85-bed facility.BE&K finished 12th out of 163 firms in Southeast Constructio
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06/04/2007
The creators of CoolPeopleCare.org, a philanthropic Web site based in Nashville, announced today the expansion of the Web site to Charleston, SC. The addition is part of CoolPeopleCare's month-long initiative to expand the site into 30 new cities during the month of June. The initiative is called
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06/04/2007
Groundbreaking for a 248-unit senior residential community called Somerby took place last month in the heart of Mount Pleasant’s Park West community.Somerby will be located on 20 acres along Basildon Road, just north of the intersection of Park West Boulevard and Grey Marsh Road.The campus-style,
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06/03/2007
Make sure you visit Charleston’s newest sustainable “community:” GoGreenCharleston.org.It’s a great new online community for all things green and sustainable here in the Charleston area. Kudos to Chad Norman and his crew for putting together a beautiful site with great analysis and community-buil
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06/03/2007
I’ve become addicted to blogging – there I’ve said it. My teammate politely listens to my musings, but I know she doesn’t understand the pull I feel. My beloved web designers have started teasing me calling me the “Queen of Blogging”, and my husband just gets exasperated. My dog Chewbacca on the
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06/03/2007
Today South Carolina residents will begin paying for the largest tax cut in state history through a sales tax increase. The state’s sales and use tax rate will increase from 5% to 6%, with the 1% increase credited to the Homestead Exemption Fund for the purpose of reducing property taxes.Rising h
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06/03/2007
Amid the sound of battle cries and machine gun fire, the stories of the nation's war heroes are now being told in a renovated museum aboard a moored aircraft carrier.The refurbished $1.5 million Medal of Honor Museum opened Memorial Day weekend aboard the USS Yorktown on Charleston Harbor as a tr
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06/02/2007
The day before the start of hurricane season, the Senate took steps to shore up South Carolina's coastal insurance market.In amendments to a bill that passed the House earlier this month, the Senate proposed solidifying the wind pool expansion that took effect March 30. The expansion moved the li
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06/01/2007
The city of Charleston’s Board of Architectural Review on Wednesday voted 5-1 against preliminary approval of plans for Marion Square Hotel, a 185-room structure that would replace the former Charleston County Library at 404 King St.Downtown area residents, officials from preservation organizatio
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05/31/2007
It’s the show everyone is barking about. “Dogs: The Musical” premieres at Piccolo Spoleto this year. The show is an innovative work by South Carolinian Paddy Bell and features the musical wizardry of composer/arranger Dick Goodwin. Although this quest-like adventure follows the classical model of
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05/31/2007
