Address: 124 Verdae Boulevard - Suite 202 Greenville, SC 29607 Phone: 864.283.2300 | Email: development@upstatealliance.com
Upstate SC Alliance
124 Verdae Boulevard - Suite 202
Greenville, SC 29607
Phone: 864.283.2300
Email: development@upstatealliance.com
The clackety-clack of weaving looms has long given way to automotive and turbine manufacturing in Greenville, SC, but the little urbane city in the foothills of the Blue Ridge is also home to a growing tech community that's about to bust out.
Manufacturing jobs becoming more skilled and heavily reliant on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.
Newsweek Magazine reports that: the U.S. is better, stronger, and faster than anywhere else in the world.
The Greenville Area Development Corporation, charged with promoting and enhancing quality of life in Greenville County by facilitating job growth and investment, announced a record 3,092 new jobs in 2011, strong capital investment, and a 7-to-1 return in county revenues for each dollar invested at their annual Investor Appreciation luncheon Thursday.
Our CEO/President Hal Johnson was recently published in the Spartanburg Herald Journal (GoUpstate.com).
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The Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport hit its record high for passenger traffic from March 2011 to February 2012.
Greenville-based Michelin North America said today it will hire 500 people and invest $750 million in Anderson and Lexington counties to meet growing demand for the massive tires used on earth-moving equipment.
Plans for the nearly 3,500 acres of land surrounding the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport could help recruit manufacturers or large companies to the Upstate.
An SCRA-sponsored shipbuilding research program has been appropriated $2.5 million for new research and development projects, SCRA announced Monday.
The Alliance is proud to announce that we have added two to our investment recruitment team and promoted Jennifer Miller to Vice President.
The State reports: South Carolina is at the forefront of a surge in apprenticeship programs, and its approach, born in the technical college system, has become a national model for workforce development.
Anderson County leaders approved two incentives packages Tuesday night to encourage one company to expand in, and another business to come to, this part of the Upstate.
Anderson Indepedent reports: The South Carolina Department of Commerce has offered $7.6 million in incentives to try to lure a proposed Michelin expansion to this state and region, officials said Friday.
The South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics on Wednesday unveiled a statewide engineering program that will enable students to complete their first year of college while still in high school.
Seattle-based online retailer Amazon's $50 million investment in Spartanburg County is beginning to take shape.
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Blaming globalization - and not domestic factors for inequality and unemployment - could lead to protectionism.
Daryl Molliere of Oconee County stumbled upon his business idea 10 years ago when he was in Georgia and shot a deer. His business idea presented itself when he realized he had no feasible way of bringing the deer home with him.
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