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Next year, construction will begin on renovating one of Augusta University’s libraries, according to Dr. Neil MacKinnon, the University’s Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. Improvements on the Greenblatt Library – located on the Health Sciences campus, will include a new café/coffee shop and a new entrance on Laney Walker Boulevard, as well as expanded student services. According to Dr. MacKinnon, construction is expected to be completed by September 2022.

Two longtime Columbia County service providers are taking the holidays off for the first time in decades. In today’s business video minute, Publisher Neil Gordon says it was just time for a change.

After 25 years in business, a local liquor store has been listed for sale for $1.9 million. According to a newsletter from the Beman Group with Blanchard & Calhoun Real Estate Company, the owners of Harvard’s Wine & Beverage, located at 110 Old Evans Road near the intersection of Bobby Jones Expressway and Washington Road, are ready to retire. The more than 9,000-square-foot store, which opened in 1996, carries a wide selection of alcoholic beverages, including wine, beer, and liquor. There’s also a second location at 145 Kings Grant Drive

Editor’s Note: Don Lawrence and his company have been helping Augusta Business Daily to sub-lease unused offices at the building we lease at 930 Stevens Creek Road. He’s leased three executive suites for us and I thought if he can help ABD, perhaps he can help your company! Have you ever walked around your CSRA office building and seen a lot of rooms with the lights off and no one there? Do you ever think that space is being wasted? Even after the pandemic, more employees are working from home

Early next year, Chad Harpley will move his company to a new 14,000-square-foot facility in Augusta, and 2,500 square feet of that space is currently available for lease. Harpley – President and Chief Executive Officer of Premier Networx – is relocating his information technology and cybersecurity firm from its current address at 4332 Wheeler Road #105 to 116 Cooper Drive off Riverwatch Parkway next door to Elegant Bridals. He says the building, which is currently under construction, is scheduled to open Jan. 3. “It’s a state-of-the-art cybersecurity center,” Harpley states.

After eight years in Evans and 20 in Martinez under the watch of “Buffalo Vince” Tedhams, the Buffalo Brakes brand just came to a screeching halt. Owners Becky and Larry Griffith made the difficult decision to close recently. “We are under contract (to a non-automotive business) and should close by the end of the year,” said Becky, who served as office manager of Buffalo Brakes for eight years— the last couple full-time. For the former beauty shop owner—the closing is emotional. ” The people of Columbia County were great. I

Each month, ABD will interview J. Brian King – our Business Attorney, about a business law topic. Yesterday, we asked him a few questions about leases for entrepreneurs. We think our readers will benefit from his legal insight and advice. ABD: What advice would you give a new entrepreneur about leasing a location for their business? Brian: First of all, do some research on the type of rental space you think you need in the market where you want to be located. Find out what the going rate is for

Death of a technology leader in CSRA Today’s “buzz” begins with the death of a respected former journalist and successful CSRA technology business owner Jimmy Bennett. He spent 20 years writing and editing for community newspapers in Statesboro, Eastman, Jessup and Canton. He became the editor of True Citizen newspaper in Waynesboro, GA before going into the computer business. Bennett died last week due to complications from Covid-19. My last email exchange with him showed me how much he still cared about local journalism. “Chuck Smith has joined the growing

From time to time Publisher Neil Gordon will share a Video business minute (or less) to update you on unique happenings. Today, a new development in a (very old) building in Aiken County.