July 13, 2025

Consumer Stories

Old-time mercantile store opens on “the hill”

A local shopping center is celebrating its 70th Anniversary by leasing to a retailer from an era gone by. This new store is in part of the old Comcast building in the Daniel Village Shopping Center. The shop offers a mixture of timeless antiques and decor along with wine, floral arrangements, and much more. It’s adjacent to Truist and Cadence banks. In recent years, Daniel Village has gotten a facelift and added restaurants like Sunrise Grill and retailers like Ace Hardware to complement anchor tenants Food Lion and Walgreens. As

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$12 million investment in CSRA

A manufacturer of paper towels and toilet paper is set to move into a South Carolina plant once occupied by another manufacturer producing similar products. Barnwell Tissues Solution’s $12 million investment will restore 50 new jobs at 285 Midfield Road in Barnwell. That is the former home of the Cascades Tissue Plant. It’s also good news for Barnwell County, which has struggled with a 4.9% unemployment rate, compared to Aiken County with a 3.8% rate and Edgefield County, which is 3.4%. Cascades used to employ 300 workers. Cascades Tissue Plant

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Roadmap to development in the River Region and the state

Georgia makes it easy for companies wishing to locate in the state to find the perfect location with a simple search. The Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD) website has a page dedicated to guiding companies to a location that will check all the boxes on their wish list. The site selector map allows the user to search by multiple tools, including location, workforce, and demographics. “It’s kind of our best-kept secret, and it’s really on us to kind of spread that word honestly,” Bob Kosek, Division Director of Global

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