Surry Business

The N.C. Secretary of State’s office registered 20 businesses and limited-liability corporations in Surry County last month and has registered 17 in February with a week to go in the month.

Here are the companies registered in January (we’ll post February’s report on March 7):

• Bucky’s Fudge LLC, registered by Michael Curtis Lowery of 153 Chilton Road, Ararat.
• Cave Real Estate Inc., registered by Joyce Watson Cave, 102 Watson Lane, Dobson. Cave is associated with Carolyne Anne Branch at Suite 104, 154 N. Renfro St., Mount Airy. Cave Real Estate previously was registered as an LLC.
• Clayton King Inc. registered by Clayton King, 512 Massey Road, Mount Airy. King’s business interests include heating, air conditioning and plumbing and repairing restaurant equipment including refrigeration systems.
• Double TT’s Conversions & Signs LLC, and registered by Thomas Umstead of 328 Hay St. and Tommy V. Sechrist of 308 E. Norman Road, Mount Airy.
• Fabrica Development Inc. registered by Tom Webb, 1219 W. Lebanon. Fabrica Development is the principal developer of the Borden Lofts project in Goldsboro that will convert the former Borden Manufacturing building (a structure on the National Register of Historic Places; it’s also known as the Goldsboro or Wayne Cotton Mills) into 65 condominiums. Webb’s other business interests include Old North State Winery and Scuppernong’s Restaurant in downtown Mount Airy.
• Granite REI Holdings Inc., registered by Monty K. Venables and Granite/Mayodan LLC, registered by R. Craig Hunter, both at Suite 200, 210 Airport Road, Mount Airy. Venables and Hunter are associated through Granite Development Inc.
• High Country Boats Inc., registered by James M. Robbins, 1887 Eldora Road, Ararat. The incorporator is attorney Hugh B. Campbell III of Mount Airy.
• Hillbilly Country Bar & Grill, 617 N. South St., registered by Kay and Glenn Boyles of 215 Johnson Creek Road in Ararat, Va. Remodeling work at the nightspot — formerly JT’s Sports Bar and more recently South Street Grill and Games — is under way. No opening date has been announced.
• Jessup’s Floor Covering and Interiors Inc. registered by Gilmer R. Jessup, 3170 Cook School Road, Pilot Mountain.
• Lynch Grading LLC registered by Ronnie Lynch, 225 Mountain Loop Road, Pilot Mountain.
• Niland Plumbing LLC at 1415 Fancy Gap Road registered by Josh Cox, 154 Jewell Court, Mount Airy. Cox’s partners include Ronald Niland, 300 Folly Farm Circle, and Robert P. Demcio, 306 Folly Farm Circle.
• PC-Mentor LLC registered by Phillip Fullerton, Unit 2, 119 Royal View Drive in Pinnacle.
• Pruitt Insurance Agency and Pruitt Land Company, both registered by Glenn S. and Wendy Pruitt, 181 Pruitt Farm Lane in Pinnacle.
• Ramey Investments LLC registered by Thomas Dewayne Ramey of 1008 Ramey Creek Road in Lowgap.
• Renaissance Environmental LLC registered by Robert Douglas Holyfield, 4844 Rockford Road in Dobson.
• Richmark Ventures LLC registered by Mark T. King, 571 Carson Road in Pilot Mountain, and Richard H. Layne of 903 Dodson Mill Road in Pilot Mountain.
• Silver Oak LLC registered by Michael Lee Harrell, 286 Farm Brook Road in Mount Airy, in association with Mark E. Randolph of Suite 205, 3288 Robinhood Road in Winston-Salem.
• The Healing House of God, 1214 Paynetown Road in Mount Airy, a religious corporation organized by Sandra and John E. Ford Jr. of 1718 Asherton Drive in Winston-Salem and Qushanta Ford of 301B Windsor Manor Way in Kernersville.