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April 11, 2022
B2B Stories

Mondays with Rick: Learning from the business model of The Masters

  Dr. Rick Franza, Dean of the Hull College of Business, discusses a different, timely business topic each Monday in this column. This week, he considers what local businesses can learn from The Masters business model. The interview has been edited for clarity and impact. ABD: Anyone who has attended an event at Augusta National during Masters Week knows it’s an amazing experience. What are some things The Masters does well? Rick: What we talk about in companies are the front room that faces the customer and the back room

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Gary Kauffman April 11, 2022 No Comments
B2B Stories

Historic plantation to become multi-use development

When developer Tracey Turner returned to his birthplace of North Augusta, it was like coming home in more ways than one. After serving in the Navy, Turner worked as a programmer for IBM, as a Project Manager for the Transportation Security Administration, and as a Project Manager for FEMA. Along the way, he rehabbed houses in Washington, D.C., and started a development company. The nation’s Capital became home to his company’s headquarters, but Turner had an eye on the potential for development back home in North Augusta. “I never thought

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Mitzi Oxford April 11, 2022 No Comments
Consumer Stories

The new restaurant evokes memories of grandmother’s house

If you can’t get to your grandmother’s house, there’s a new spot in North Augusta that serves as a good substitute. “I want it to feel like walking into your grandmother’s house and she’s in the kitchen cooking,” said Julie McNeely, owner of McNeely’s Place, a new restaurant on Georgia Avenue in North Augusta. “It’s Southern cooking like grandmother used to make.” McNeely’s opened on March 25 in a 107-year-old house just across the bridge from downtown Augusta. It formerly had been the location of another favorite restaurant, Davenport’s which

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Gary Kauffman April 11, 2022 No Comments