BMW Plant Spartanburg celebrates 25 years

With vehicles rolling off the assembly line at a rate of about one per minute, most of the workers building BMWs at Plant Spartanburg couldn’t pause to celebrate 25 years of production.

MUSC receives grant to fight opioid addiction

The Medical University of South Carolina has received $833,190 from the National Institutes of Health’s Helping to End Addition Long-term Initiative to help reverse the national opioid crisis.

J. Davis Construction opens new office

The firm has opened a corporate office along Interstate 85 in Anderson County; a ribbon cutting will be this month, according to a news release. The company also has a facility in Westminster.

New parking garage opens in West Columbia

The free parking adds 105 public parking spaces in the Brookland mixed-use development near the Riverwalk Amphitheater. The Brookland Public Parking Garage opened this weekend.

Life Cycle Engineering awarded $50M Navy contract

Charleston-based information technology and engineering consulting firm Life Cycle Engineering has been awarded a five-year contract by the U.S. Naval Ship Repair Facility and Japan Regional Maintenance Center to provide the Navy with technical planning and engineering services.

Technical colleges enjoy the limelight

The president of the 16-school S.C. Technical College System says it’s a new era for the system, which educates and trains more than 175,000 people each year, including about 110,000 who are enrolled in credit programs.

News from across South Carolina

• Local lawyer assumes leadership role
• New Foot Locker coming to Columbia
• Furman names finalists for WhatWorksSC Award