Business & Real Estate

Front Porch: New stores followed early success

Like other successful businesses on the Outer Banks, the Front Porch Cafe enjoyed growth, and with it expansion. All of these owners view expansion not merely as means to increase revenues, but a necessary component to retain exceptional employees. Seeing their employees as family translates into a stable work force. To keep those employees, opportunityfull story »


Luxury cat builder picks Wanchese

Gunboat Co., a maker of high-end sailboats, plans to invest $1.8 million to set up shop in Wanchese Seafood Industrial Park.


“Milepost” magazine to be featured in The Voice

“Milepost” fills a long-vacant void in local, lifestyle publications.  It covers far more than where to eat and what to do. The Voice will be featuring stories from “Milepost.”
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N.C. secretary named to national tourism advisory board

Linda Carlisle, Department of Cultural Resources secretary, was sworn in Thursday as a member of a tourism advisory board to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce.
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Southern Bank to close four Currituck and Dare locations

Former Bank of the Commonwealth branches in Moyock, Powells Point, Kitty Hawk, and Waves will be closing at the end of February.
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Chamber warns of real estate scam

The Outer Banks Chamber of Commerce recently warned members about a scam that uses Craigslist and has impacted several rental properties in the area.
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Front Porch Cafe – Beginnings

Paul & Susannah Manning, co-owners of the Front Porch Cafe, exhibit the entrepreneurial style that separates successful businesses from the rest of the pack.
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Fooled! Two must-read books for business

A review of a pair of books by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, focusing on why the world of business so often misses the mark, especially when super-rare events appear out of nowhere to wreak havoc.
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Sun Realty congratulates Agent of the Year

Michael Davenport has been named the 2011 Agent of the Year by the real estate company.


Banks are finding business on OBX

With the plethora of banks on the Outer Banks, many wonder how they manage considering the state of the economy.
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Coalition bucks real estate trends

A developer, a bank and Currituck County put the pieces together to build and sell 10 houses in Corolla.
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Southern Bank plans realignment of local offices

Southern Bank and Trust Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of Southern BancShares (N.C.), Inc., has announced a realignment plan for branches in Hampton Roads and the Outer Banks.
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