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Durham opens new South Regional Library

Durham County cut the ribbon Wed., July 28, to a brand new South Regional Library on S. Alston Ave. The library stands on the historic Old Lowe’s Grove School site, a local landmark for regional education. Celebratory activities included ventriloquists, boxing demonstrations, yoga, Only Burger and ice cream trucks, and historians documenting [...]

The American Underground Opens in Durham

Exciting announcement from American Tobacco yesterday – the American Underground will debut this fall!  Explaining that the campus will have the energy of a start-up campus and all the amenities of a world-class business campus, Jim Goodmon, Rick Weddle and other state and regional economic development leaders announced the anticipated opening of the 26,000 [...]

Cultivating Entrepreneurialism

The Durham Chamber of Commerce held its first Economic Development Summit Wednesday at the Millennium Hotel. The event consisted of two sister sessions: the first a panel discussion of entrepreneurship in the Durham region, the second a keynote analysis of where Durham needs to go to reach its venture capitalist goals. Bob Pickens, CED’s [...]

Launching Durham

Calling all Triangle Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists and Startup Junkies!

You are invited to attend and participate in the first-ever Launch Days Durham. Launch Days Durham will be an inspiration-packed day where rising new business models are presented and an audience of learned peers offer constructive, collaborative input and vision. Attendees can expect to spark [...]

Google Fiber for RTP Communities

Google has launched a new “Google Fiber for Communities” project, planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. Google will deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home [...]