Surry Business

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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For the third consecutive year – and for the sixth time in seven years – North Carolina ranks first in Site Selection magazine’s annual state business climate analysis. Fifty percent of each state’s total score is based on the magazine’s survey of corporate real estate decision makers and 50 percent comes from data associated with […]

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Southern Community Bank and Trust has four new employees. Maria Sierra is a new teller in Mount Airy where Southern Community has two offices: 2010 Community Drive (off Rockford Street) and downtown at 255 E. Independence Boulevard. Sam Luster joined the northern region commercial banking group in Yadkinville as a commercial banker; Christen Woodard is […]

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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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Wayne Farms LLC, the fourth-largest vertically integrated poultry producer in the United States, has once again earned the Vendor Improvement Process (VIP) Cornerstone Award from Gordon Food Service, North America’s largest privately held food-service distributor. The award is the highest honor Gordon gives to its vendors. “The VIP Cornerstone Award is one of the most […]

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Three days of rain last week moved Surry County into the category of “moderate drought” (D1) on the weekly State Drought Monitor map posted Thursday by the North Carolina Drought Management Advisory Council. More than half of the state’s counties remain locked in the D3 (extreme drought) or D4 (exceptional) categories on the newest Drought […]

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The Surrey Bancorp Board of Directors has approved a special cash dividend of 15 cents per share of common stock. The dividend is payable Jan. 2, 2008, to shareholders of record as of Dec. 10, 2007. This is the first time the Surrey Bancorp board has declared a cash dividend. Edward C. “Ted” Ashby, president […]

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Benny L. East’s Mayberry Campground no sooner opened for business just outside Mount Airy off Interstate 74 in Surry County than it picked up a glowing recommendation on RV Park Reviews. “We were one of their first campers,” said an experienced motor-home traveler whose other campground reviews span the nation from California to Pennsylvania and […]

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The Olympia Restaurant in Mount Airy has moved into its new building at 550 Riverside Drive, next to its former location across Linville Road from Renfro Corp. The locally owned restaurant, particularly popular for breakfasts and lunches and well-known for its homestyle cooking (turnip greens, macaroni & cheese and cornbread are daily fixtures on the […]

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