L-R: Brent Nash, Phillip Baker (both with Nash Building Systems); Brad Knight, Robby Brown (both with Onslow Bay Boatworks), Mayor Anita Dingler, and Susan Edwards (JOED Chairman). In early August, the Town of Holly Ridge hosted a ground breaking ceremony at Camp Davis Industrial Park for its newest business, Onslow Bay Boatworks. The construction of [...]
JOED Announces Winter Custom Yachts moves to Onslow CountyWinter Custom Yachts was launched in 2006 in Apex, NC. But Tim Winters’ passion for boats and fishing began when he was a youngster growing up in Eastern NC. His family fishing outings led to sketching boat designs and building skiffs in the family garage. In high [...]
Onslow Bay Boatworks has been manufacturing high end fishing boats since 2005 for tournament fisherman. Founder Brad Knight is a second-generation boat builder and avid competition angler. He started Onslow Bay with a very specific goal – to build the best tournament center consoles on the water. He was successful in his design of a [...]
ContactUS Communications celebrated its new Jacksonville, NC center with a ribbon cutting on June 20th. The company brings new life to a vacated office space in West Park Shopping Center. Like its two other centers in Columbus, Ohio and Grindstone, Pennsylvania, this new center will provide ContactUS’ suite of omni-channel contact center outsourcing solutions, including [...]
The JOED Board of Directors extends its thanks to guest Tom Looney for his presentation at last week’s board meeting. Mr. Looney discussed a new initiative, Driving Sustained Economic Development in Coastal NC with Oyster Mariculture. As a member of the North Carolina Coastal Federation’s Board of Directors and President’s Council, Tom emphasized that oyster [...]
Photo: Tracy Gable of US Workboats and Harold Thomas, NCDOT Ferry Division Director, discuss future Passenger Ferry construction phases. This month NCDOT officials gathered at US Workboats (Formerly Armstrong Marine) in Hubert to celebrate the “Keel Laying” construction phase of the first NCDOT passenger ferry. According to Wikipedia, “Laying the keel or laying down is the [...]
Onslow County reached an important goal recently, with the completion of Shell Building #2 located at 723 Luther Midgett Road, in Burton Business and Industrial Park. At yesterday’s ribbon cutting ceremony, Onslow County Commissioners voiced unanimous recognition that this building will serve as an important recruitment asset for new business locations or expansions into Onslow [...]
Last week, Onslow County manufacturers hosted facility tours for Onslow County high school students. Students observed the connection between their class work and its implementation in a work setting. They also saw how new technologies are replacing some of the older, more laborious, techniques in the manufacturing sector. They were amazed to learn that many [...]
JOED co-hosted a North Carolina East Alliance (NCEA)-led event last week at the Onslow County Government Center. The program included an overview of Pollution Prevention (P2) grant activities, NC Department of Environmental Quality services, animal waste to energy and heat efforts, and services available through the Small Business & Technology Development Center. The workshop brought [...]
(Triangle Business Journal) Despite the controversy surrounding House Bill 2, North Carolina has been named the top spot in the country for economic development by Site Selection magazine. North Carolina tied with Texas for the first-place ranking in 2016 after having won the award in 2015. The Prosperity Cup award is based on several criteria [...]
