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The Thrive Beaufort Blog
Stories of people and their businesses thriving in Beaufort County, South Carolina.
Beaufort County Economic Development Corporation Welcomes CS INSTRUMENTS
CS INSTRUMENTS expanding North American headquarters in Beaufort County. $3.6 million investment will create 13 new jobs Beaufort County, S.C. – CS INSTRUMENTS, a manufacturer of compressed air measuring technology, recently announced it is establishing its North...
Kelli Brunson Honored with SCEDA Sloan W. Gable Scholarship for University of Oklahoma EDI
The Beaufort County Economic Development Corporation (BCEDC) proudly announces that Senior Project Manager, Kelli Brunson, has been awarded the 2025 South Carolina Economic Developers Association (SCEDA) Sloan W. Gable Scholarship. This scholarship provides Kelli the...
Beaufort County Economic Development Corporation Welcomes TL+CO Business Solutions
On Friday, April 11th, TL+CO Business Solutions held a ribbon cutting to unveil its new state-of-the art 15,000 sq. ft. facility in Seabrook in Beaufort County. The company was created from a shared vision by a core group of senior-level business professionals with a...
The General and His Legacy
In April 2024, the Technical College of the Lowcountry (TCL) broke ground on the second building at the New River Campus. This building, named the Arthur E. Brown Regional Workforce Training Center, will offer new and expanded programs in manufacturing, logistics,...
2025 CONVERGE Summit – Globally Aligned. Locally Focused.
The sixth-annual CONVERGE Lowcountry Economic Development Summit will be held on Friday, January 17, 2025, at Sun City’s Pinckney Hall. The event will feature two respected leaders, Harry Lightsey, Secretary of Commerce at the South Carolina Department of Commerce...
Igniting Growth: The Impact of the Don Ryan Center for Innovation
The Town of Bluffton is a key partner to Beaufort County Economic Development – specifically through the Don Ryan Center for Innovation (DRCI). Originally, DRCI began as a partnership between Clemson University and the Town of Bluffton. Clemson, as a land grant...
Passing the Torch: BCEDC Board of Director’s Leadership Shifts from Ashley Feaster to Joel Braun
For over five years, Ashley Feaster, Community Affairs and Economic Development Officer for the Palmetto Electric Cooperative, served as the Chair of the Beaufort County Economic Development Board. Ashley Feaster grew up on the gulf coast of Florida and attended...
Angel Kern: A Cybersecurity Trailblazer
It is 2021. What does a community do when it receives a Department of Defense grant for $1.3 million dollars to create a cybersecurity hub? You engage the University of South Carolina Beaufort (USCB) to manage the grant and hire the top cybersecurity professional in...
Jess O’Brien and the Beaufort Digital Corridor: Bringing the Tech Industry to Beaufort
“We moved to Beaufort not for the job. We came for the scenery. We came for the lifestyle. And when we got here, we had to figure out what we were going to do. I knew I wanted to become deeply involved in the fabric of the community and see what I could to make it...