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The cost of spreading the word about the brand-new, big-ticket culinary extravaganza in Charleston was hefty enough to warrant a footnote in the latest financial statement for one of the backers. IAC Inc . penciled in a $3.
3 million increase in print-related marketing expenses for its Dotdash Meredith publishing business for the July-September period, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission . The publicly traded holding company said in the quarterly update that the higher “spend” was primarily related to its promotion of the inaugural three-day Food & Wine Classic Charleston . Famed Aspen food festival to host inaugural Charleston event in 2024 New York-based IAC, which owns the magazine that lends its name to the event, organized the Sept.
27-29 festival with Explore Charleston , the region’s tourism agency, and other partners, including Southern Living and Travel + Leisure . The gastronomic gathering was described as the first spinoff of the long-running Food & Wine Classic in Aspen , which is now in its fourth decade in the Colorado ski resort town. The Lowcountry version included a tasting pavilion at the Charleston Visitor Center along with a slew of cooking demonstrations and seminars at several venues.
The talent lineup included NBC “Today” weatherman Al Roker , talk show host Tamron Hall and chefs such as Sean Brock and Rodney Scott . Attendance was capped at 2,000 weekend passes, which cost $1,950 to $2,450. Food & Wine Charleston has announced its return for a second helping in 2025, but it will be held later in the year, Nov.
14-16 . Pricing and most other details have not been released as of this week. A rendering shows the Summerville Logistics Center to be built along U.
S. Highway 78 by Atlanta-based developer Portman and the CapitaLand Ascendas real estate investment trust of Singapore. Investors from the Southeastern United States and Southeast Asia are teaming up on the Charleston region's latest mega-warehouse project.
Portman Holdings of Atlanta and Singapore-based real estate investment trus t CapitaLand Ascendas R EIT are constructing two buildings totaling 549,000 square feet at the Summerville Logistics Center along U.S. Highway 78 near Interstate 26.
Berkeley County's Camp Hall business park drawing interest from developers The project is expected to wrap up by the end of 2025. The first building will measure 313,000 square feet while the second will be 236,000 square feet. John Gaskin , managing director at Portman, described the Charleston region as "one of the high-growth markets" along the East Coast.
The Summerville development is about 9 miles from the Peach State firm’s 188-acre campus within the Camp Hall Commerce Park , where the company has built four buildings totaling more than 2.1 million square feet. Portman’s local real estate portfolio now includes 228 acres and 2.
7 million square feet of space that's either completed, under construction or in the design phase. “With the success we have seen at Camp Hall, we knew that this market was hungry for more premier industrial development,” Jessica Freese , Portman's vice president of development, said in a written statement. Nexton is among the big suburban housing developments in the Summerville market.
Summerville is a suburban standout. So says moveBuddha , which ranked the self-proclaimed Birthplace of Sweet Tea No. 1 on its list of Hottest Booming 'Burbs in the U.
S. for 2024. Retired baby boomers are pouring into South Carolina.
'Gray tsunami' is washing over the land. The household relocation service said its research found that for every move out of Summerville, there are 3.76 searches by potential future residents looking to move in .
Flowertown's volume is 38 percent higher than the second-place suburb, also in South Carolina: Conway in Horry County. Beverly Hills broke the Palmetto State streak by taking the No. 3 spot, but Bluffton came close with a sixth-place finish.
Nine of the top 10 spots were in the Carolinas and Florida. Charleston International Airport saw an 11 percent increase in traffic over the seven-day Thanksgiving holiday travel period last year. The annual holiday travel rush is just around the corner, and the annual scramble for parking could be particularly trying through the end of the year at Charleston International .
The new wrinkle for 2024 is a multilevel garage that's now being built on the site of a recently shuttered surface lot near the main terminal. Spike in Christmas travel is icing on the cake as Charleston airport tops off record year To help balance out the supply and demand, the " Economy B " area at CHS has been expanded to handle 300 more vehicles. Another 600 became available by relocating parking for airport workers off-site.
In addition, the remote shuttle-served seasonal overflow lots have been reopened. Airport CEO Elliot Summey said he doesn't anticipate running out of spots this holiday season, but he noted that some travelers will have to park farther away than in years past. He also urged drivers to arrive early and to pay attention to airport road signs, as detours and traffic patterns could change week to week.
Summey said by Thanksgiving next year, the airport will have an additional 2,500 parking spaces, with the completion of the first phase of the new $342 million garage. In 2023, traffic at CHS climbed 11 percent during the seven-day Thanksgiving travel window. Nationally, AAA is projecting a 2 percent increase to 5.
84 million passengers flying domestically from Nov. 26 through Dec. 2.
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