Briefs
by John Temple Ligon
      Whole new team The University of North Carolina at Charlotte has almost 22,000 students - with an additional 12,000 planned for the coming decade - and no football team. Estimates to start a team run from $12 million to $25 million and another $5 million a year to operate. The Panth...
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Green Diamond developers try again
By John Temple Ligon Temple@TheColumbiaStar.com
      In 1999, Columbia Venture LLC (CV) bought 4,474 acres of Richland County riverside property on the Congaree for a reported $14 million. It proposed a development project called Green Diamond near Heathwood Hall School with the potential of total development investments of $4 bil...
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Jeremy Wilson of Grub & Ellis Wilson/Kibler Star Profile
      By John Temple Ligon Temple@TheColumbiaStar.com Jeremy G. Wilson, CPM and CCIM, was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. His father was a Philadelphia stock broker, and his mother later was the comptroller for Crouse, the world's largest nuclear clean- up company.
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The Wade Hampton Sertoma Club presents awards
Contributed by The Sertoma Club
      The Wade Hampton Sertoma Club presented Ronald D. Mitchum with the Service to Mankind Award, the highest award the club gives to a non- member. Mitchum contributes to many community churches and civic groups. Epworth Children's Home, Carolina Children's Home, SC Commission ...
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Crescendo advertising moves office to Main Street
Contributed by Davis Public Relations and Marketing, LLC
      Crescendo Advertising is proud to announce its new location in the historic Barringer Building on the corner of Main and Washington Streets in downtown Columbia. "We are thrilled to be in our new location on Main Street and especially about being in the historic Barringer Buil...
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Folks about town
      The SC State Fair received two awards of excellence for its agricultural and competitive exhibits programs from the 2006 International Association of Fairs and Expositions. The winning categories were Exhibitor Handbook on the Web and Program Designed to Correct an Issue or Problem Related t...
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