| More jobs, more traffic to transform Orangeburg (The State) |
| ORANGEBURG — The Economic Zones World video said it all. “We turn forgotten fields into modern industrial and logistics parks,” the narrator said during a sleek video explaining the Dubai-based company’s plans for Orangeburg County. In other words, things are changing in this impoverished corner of South Carolina. Over the next two decades, warehouses and manufacturing plants will dot the ... |
| 11/12/2008 |
| DHEC fuel tank cleanup program falls short (The State) |
| The state’s environmental agency has known for years that leaking fuel tanks are the culprit in 80 percent of the polluted groundwater cases across South Carolina. But the agency consistently has failed to make cleaning up the mess a budget priority — in a state where one in four residents drinks from a well, records show. Only once since 1997 has the state Department of Health and Environmental ... |
| 11/20/2008 |
| Linking schools, housing: Developer says that’s key for new communities (The State) |
| Columbia businessman Don Tomlin is proposing a new way for developers statewide to do business: make sure large-scale residential projects have schools linked to them. Tomlin, who developed Lake Carolina in Northeast Richland, among other projects, pledged that he would never again spearhead a major residential project without making schools a centerpiece of the planning. He urged others to do ... |
| 11/19/2008 |
| How DHEC's oversight of coal plants fell short (The State) |
| The Department of Health and Environmental Control says it can be trusted to oversee a $2.2 billion coal-fired electric power plant Santee Cooper wants to build in Florence County. But the agency’s past difficulties overseeing Santee Cooper’s coal plants have raised loud objections from conservationists and some doctors about whether DHEC would be a good a watchdog for health and the environment ... |
| 11/18/2008 |
| Company outlines plans for SC distribution center (The Trucker) |
| ORANGEBURG , S.C. — Hundreds of government and business leaders gathered Wednesday in Orangeburg for a glimpse of the biggest economic development project ever announced for the poor, rural county located about halfway between Columbia and Charleston. |
| 11/13/2008 |
| Dubai firm to employ 3,000 in rural (The Myrtle Beach Sun News) |
| Hundreds of government and business leaders gathered Wednesday in Orangeburg for a glimpse of the biggest economic development project ever announced for the poor, rural county located about halfway between Columbia and Charleston. The project, ultimately a $600 million, 1,300-acre distribution center and manufacturing park, will be built in five phases, wrapping up in 2032, said Steven Eames, ... |
| 11/12/2008 |
| DHEC under fire (The State) |
| EXCLUSIVE Imagine a state agency that helps developers build in fragile areas close to the ocean — at taxpayer expense. Imagine an agency that oversees homes for the disabled in which at least three people have died from neglect in two years. Imagine an agency posting one of the nation’s worst records for cleaning up leaks from underground gasoline tanks — in a state where more than a quarter ... |
| 11/15/2008 |
| Santee, Lake Marion ready to boom (The State) |
| Two new developments planned for Santee and Lake Marion would add thousands of homes and businesses to this rural slice of South Carolina that suffers from high unemployment. The developments aim to capitalize on the region’s growing popularity among retirees who want to live near golf courses and lakes. And, the developers will benefit from a massive industrial hub planned for the southeast tip ... |
| 11/13/2008 |
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