Surry Business

Richard Vaughn of Mount Airy, chairman and CEO of John. S. Clark Company Inc., has received the Distinguished Citizen Award from the Old Hickory Council of Boy Scouts of America. The council gives the annual award to an individual from northwest North Carolina who best exemplifies the ideals of Scouting through contributions to the community, […]

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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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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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The loss of textile, apparel and furniture manufacturing in North Carolina has left the state littered with vacant industrial facilities, but there’s growing interest in adaptive reuse and repurposing of those buildings for residential housing. Landmark Asset Services, a division of The Landmark Group, turned one such building into Globe Tobacco Lofts at 838 S. […]

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John S. Clark Co. in Mount Airy will build a $10.6-million athletic and aquatics center for Brunswick Community College in Supply, N.C. The contractor’s Wilmington office will supervise the project. Jerry Winegar is the project manager, Tom Beach the estimator and Sam Pace is the construction superintendent. The complex was designed John Sawyer Architects and […]

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Mount Airy-based Granite Development LLC, a Surry County real-estate and commercial development company, has started building a shopping center in front of the Wal-Mart off Peters Creek Parkway in Winston-Salem, the Winston-Salem Journal reports. “The shopping center will be named Parkway Village and will be anchored by SunCom, Quizno’s Subs and Burger King,” the newspaper […]

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Surry County has issued $11 million in building permits, Editor Andy Matthews reports in the Mount Airy News. The projects include several we’ve reported before, including the first phase ($1.4 million) of Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital’s $48-million expansion and improvement project in Elkin. “Elkin is actually undergoing a ‘mini-construction’ boom,” Matthews reports, “with the hospital […]

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Only two years after completing a $20-million project that added surgical space and imaging equipment, Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital in Elkin has started a three-year-long, $48-million program that will renovate and enlarge the hospital’s emergency room and intensive-care unit, put an addition on the cardiology center, upgrade the comprehensive cancer unit, improve the medical/surgical nursing […]

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Pike Electric Corp. (NYSE: PEC) in Mount Airy, N.C., has added a “2007 Video Annual Report” to the Investor Relations section of its web site. This new feature shows viewers the highlights of Pike Electric’s accomplishments in fiscal 2007. It includes an overview of Pike Electric and the company’s strategic initiatives. The short documentary also […]

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Goodwill Industries will open its new 13,000-square-foot facility at 1986 Rockford St. (on U.S. 601) in Mount Airy at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 7. The building has 9,000 square feet of retail space, 1,000 square feet for future workforce training and development services and much more room for processing, repairing and storing donated items. The […]

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