Manufacturing and Supply Chain Report for March 3, 2021

Columbia warehouses sell for $7.25 million

The Sunbelt Court buildings total 136,000 square feet and were 96% leased at the time of the sale with an average tenant occupancy of 13 years. Colliers South Carolina facilitated the transaction. Tenants include TopBuild, Campbell Soup Co. and Carolina Wholesale Floors. (Columbia Regional Business Report)

Leatherman Terminal receives final cargo equipment

Six more rubber-tire gantries have arrived at the S.C. Ports Authority, bringing the final count to 25 for the new port. They will be commissioned by ZPMC before they’re put in service. (Charleston Regional Business Journal)

Upstate team designs bridges, light poles from turbine blades

Wind farmers face a colossal quandary that is only growing with the size of turbine blades, some that are now the length of a football field. An international team in partnership with Greenville's Logisticus Group is developing a creative solution blade by blade. (GSA Business Report)

PPP application opens for smallest businesses

The U.S. Small Business Administration opened an exclusive PPP loan application for businesses and nonprofits with fewer than 20 employees. The 14-day exclusivity window gives sole proprietors, independent contractors and the country’s smallest businesses a head start in the race for additional PPP funding. (GSA Business Report)

Carolinas Project Center Featured Projects

The Carolinas Project Center from SC Biz News updates daily with construction bids, government bids, service contract bids, and other opportunities in the Carolinas.

Radio communications and mass notification system
Contracting agency: N.C. State Ports
Scope of bid: C-1544 Radio communications and mass notification system, including tower and equipment construction project, at the Port of Wilmington and Port of Morehead City.
Get more information on this project at the Carolinas Project Center

Delivery of 6-inch bypass pump
for Florence, S.C.
Contracting agency: City of Florence, S.C.
Scope of bid: Florence is accepting sealed bids from qualified vendors for the purchase and delivery of one 6-inch bypass pump. The bid will be awarded to the lowest bidder that best meets the city's specifications.
Get more information on this project at the Carolinas Project Center