Surry Business

Northern Hospital of Surry County will begin its $22-million Surgical Services Relocation Project in January. A 58,000-square-foot addition will go up at the south end of the hospital’s main campus on Rockford Street in Mount Airy. The building will be the future home of Inpatient and Outpatient Surgery, Day Surgery, GI Endoscopy, Pre-Admission Testing, Anesthesia, […]

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Two growing retail businesses in downtown Mount Airy will expand on Main Street after the first of the year. Cybergear, 437 N. Main, will more than double its space when it takes over an adjacent store formerly occupied by All In A Basket at 439 N. Main. The building’s owner will open the wall dividing […]

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The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area is accepting nominations for its annual “40 Leaders Under Forty Awards.” Candidates from within the 12-county Piedmont Triad, including Surry County, must be successful in their field and also bettering this region through their civic and philanthropic efforts. Nominees must be over the age of 21 and […]

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John S. Clark Company, LLC of Mount Airy has formed a new Triad Commercial Division to better serve the changing needs of the Piedmont Triad area’s commercial-construction marketplace. The division will be based at the company’s downtown Greensboro office, 516 W. Friendly Ave. Company President and CEO Jim Walker said 28 project managers, superintendents and […]

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Winston-Salem Regional Association of Realtors wasted little time posting results of sales activity in November, perhaps because there were fewer sales to count than in October. The Piedmont Triad Multiple Listing Service reported 497 houses, condos and townhouses were sold last month, almost 7 percent fewer than November 2006. Almost all of the decline was […]

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Even if you live in Surry County, you may not have heard of Jantec Neon Products — like United Plastics, CK Technologies and others we could name, Jantec has a bigger national reputation than a local one — but you’ve almost surely seen Jantec’s work. Jantec manufactures and markets the neon signs that light the […]

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Carol Hiatt has opened Shopper’s Paradise at 317 S. Franklin Road, a 4,000-square-foot former mill and warehouse across the road from Calvary Baptist Church of Mount Airy. Shopper’s Paradise’s merchandise includes “thousands of furniture, decorative and household antiques that make up Carol’s vast collection,” according to an article by Brooke R. Corwin in the Dec. […]

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Ticketmaster, the world’s leading ticketing company, plans to open 58 Ticketmaster retail ticket centers in Lowes Foods stores in North Carolina. Fifteen Piedmont Triad-area Lowes Foods Ticketmaster locations will begin selling tickets on Saturday, Dec. 15, and the remaining locations will follow in early 2008. Ticketmaster said tickets to events at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex, […]

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The outlook for hiring in the Winston-Salem Metropolitan Statistical Area is the worst since 1996, Richard Craver reports today in the Winston-Salem Journal. Previewing a Manpower Inc. Employment Outlook quarterly report, Craver writes, “Just 7 percent of employers in (Davie, Forsyth, Stokes and Yadkin counties) say they plan to add staff in the first quarter…. […]

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As predicted, home sales fell in October, according to the Winston-Salem Regional Association of Realtors. The number of units sold fell by more than 10 percent from a year ago and total dollar volume was down 16 percent from October 2006. Sales dropped in all sizes in single-family homes — two bedrooms or less, three […]

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