Shipwatch Square will begin to see new life in the spring, when a restaurant wholesale store opens on the site. Restaurant Depot has bought 6.4 acres of land on the Meeting Street side of the Shipwatch site, which also is bordered by Rivers and McMillan avenues, with plans to build a 65,000-square-foot store. Rich Danieli, COO of Restaurant Depot, said the company has been looking for a Charleston-area location for a year and a half. Charleston is “a city that’s growing culinary, and as we do...

A West Ashley apartment complex is receiving a facelift after being acquired by an Atlanta-based real estate developer earlier this month. Radco purchased the Woodbridge Apartments on Ashley River Road for $23 million, and renamed the property Radius at West Ashley in an effort to rebrand as renovations begin to “reset the economic clock,” or bring things up to date, according to Radco CEO Norman Radow. “The bulk of the property is 1970s vintage,” he said. “It looks very pretty but behind the...

Smoothie King will soon expand its dominion with a new location in West Ashley expected to open this fall. “I like the direction of West Ashley,” said franchisee Jeff Conway. “You tell me if I’m wrong. ... I just think West Ashley is going to be a happening place in the future.” Conway said the location at Village Square Shopping Center was particularly intriguing to him because of the traffic on Sam Rittenberg Boulevard and the fact that the shopping center already has a dance studio and a...

Two collaborative research grants from the National Science Foundation will allow The Citadel to create and study professional development workshops in science, technology, engineering and math for teachers across North and South Carolina. The $2.4 million project will be conducted by The Citadel’s STEM Center of Excellence, Zucker Family School of Education and School of Science and Mathematics, in partnership with North Carolina State University. The Citadel's portion of the total, $1.54...

The State Fiscal Accountability Authority unanimously approved a 99-year lease between Patriots Point Development Authority and Patriots Annex LLC, clearing the way for the latter to begin development on 60 acres adjacent to the USS Yorktown. Over the next 15 years, Patriots Annex LLC is expected to invest more than $350 million into the first phase of the mixed-use development, including restaurants, shops, office buildings, an amphitheater and a hotel named the Grand Patriot. The agreement...