New Castle County Chamber of Commerce named Liz Scott, co-executive director of Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation and mother to founder Alexandra “Alex” Scott, as the keynote speaker for its 26th Annual Entrepreneurial & Business Women’s Expo. Registration is open for the expo, scheduled for 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Nov. 17 at the Chase Center…
BALTIMORE — Corrigan Sports Enterprises announced it has acquired the Discover Bank Delaware Marathon and Running Festival. The annual event consists of numerous concurrent distances, including the Discover Bank marathon, Patterson Schwartz Real Estate half marathon, Horizon Services four-person relay, Michelob Ultra eight-person relay, and a 1.2-mile fun run. The 14th annual Discover Bank Delaware…
By Kim Hoey Special to Delaware Business Times Ellen Barrosse goes straight to the organic meat section of the store when she wants to buy chicken. She’s made chicken broth with organic and non-organic chickens and has seen the difference. When you refrigerate broth made with non-organic chicken, the fat floats to the top and…
Since early 2015, the Downtown Development Districts program has helped finance major new private development in the original districts in Seaford, Wilmington and Dover, with $14 million in state grant funding leveraging more than $290 million of private investment. Below is a list of the large projects from the first Downtown Development Districts that are…
By Kim Hoey Special to Delaware Business Times For 20 years, groups in Milford formed, came up with ideas to re-invigorate the 170 acres that is downtown Milford, and then seemed to disappear. While there were pocket areas that took off for a while, the going was slow and spotty. With the city being named…
By Sam Waltz A Chester County, Pa.-based national lender in the private club industry called the purchase of the University & Whist Club by entrepreneurs John Hynansky and Thomas Hatzis “in principal the best of all possible outcomes.” “The truth is that private clubs across the country have been suffering for a decade, perhaps longer,”…
By Sam Waltz Founding publisher In what could be a nationally historic event, a City of Wilmington site once proposed to be the United States Capitol — now a preeminent fine-dining private membership club — has been sold to two prominent local businessmen. The University & Whist Club, 805 N. Broom St., a three-story mansion…
By Alex Vuocolo Special to Delaware Business Times Wilmington voters will choose from no less than eight Democratic candidates for mayor in the Sept. 13 primary election. Among the contenders are a city councilmember, a state senator, a nonprofit professional and a former police officer. We asked each of the candidates two questions about how…
(Washington, D.C.) — Kiplinger has released its ranking of the best and worst states for taxes. Kiplinger’s fourth annual Tax Map — reveals income taxes, sales taxes, gas taxes, “sin” taxes (for products such as alcohol and tobacco) and other tax rules and exemptions across all 50 states and Washington, D.C. “Where you live can…
The Baton Rouge Area Chamber and the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (LABI) have teamed up with other regional business organizations to create a fund specifically designed to help small business owners affected by the flood quickly get back on their feet. The two groups announced the creation of the Louisiana Small Business Rebirth…
