Elizabeth "Lilly" Egan

Reporting on real estate, retail and sports business for @TriadBizJournal | 📩 [email protected] | more @_ElizabethEgan

[Elizabeth "Lilly" Egan @TriadBizLilly]

I am excited to have recently joined the Triad Business Journal as a reporter covering real estate, retail and sports business!

If you have any tips or stories ideas, I would love to hear from you — you can DM me or email me at [email protected].
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Yesterday I had the chance to talk with Winston-Salem legend @CP3 about the expansion of his healthy snack brand Good Eat'n into over 1,000 Walmart stores around the country.

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Marty Kotis' plans for the first Publix in Greensboro are no longer in the works.

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Yesterday the Carroll Cos. broke ground on the first phase of the $150M Parkside project, which will include an AC Hotel and the first rooftop restaurant downtown.

Details below:
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Friendly Center owner and operator CBL has finally confirmed the Triad's first LEGO store will be coming to Greensboro, along with multiple restaurants and other stores.
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What makes your workplace great? Whatever your secret sauce is, you still have time to nominate your workplace as one of the Best Places to Work in the Triad before the deadline this Friday.
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A major Charlotte developer is expanding its presence in the Triad with a project that is the first of its kind in the region — a $50 million build-to-rent townhome community.
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Despite strong opposition from neighbors, the Greensboro Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously approved Cone Health's request to rezone the current site of Centenary Methodist Church.

Read more in my article below 🔽
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While Greensboro may be smaller than other cities known for sports tourism, it is showing it can stack up to more well-known metro areas with its recent hosting of the AAU Junior Olympic Games.
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The annual Wyndham Championship, held in Greensboro last weekend, engaged fans despite delays due to Tropical Storm Debby.
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I recently made my second visit to the NC Zoo in Asheboro to report on its 50th anniversary and plans for expansion, which include construction of two new continent exhibits and maybe even a convention center.
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Yesterday, I reported that HanesBrands announced it would be selling its headquarters to Carolina University and moving its headquarters to downtown Winston-Salem.
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The developers of the Westin Hotel in downtown Greensboro say plans are still in progress after the February One Parking Deck opened earlier this month.

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New housing could be coming to Stokesdale after its planning board recommended a rezoning request to allow for a subdivision on a 45-acre parcel.

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I spent Tuesday evening at the Jamestown Town Council meeting, where homebuilder D.R. Horton withdrew its application to turn the site of an equestrian center into almost 100 townhomes after many residents spoke against the project.

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N.C. Transportation Secretary Joey Hopkins said the economic impact of Future Interstate 685 "cannot be overstated," and that the highway will increase safety, mobility and connectivity in the state.

Read more from my coverage of the unveiling of the Future I-685 sign below:

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The celebration of the designation of part of U.S. Highway 421 as Future I-685 comes after an announcement last month that another corridor of the highway could become Future Interstate 777. https://t.co/9Fimo061JG

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In my story for the front page of this week's
@TriadBizJournal I dove into a new North Carolina building permit law going into effect in July — and what else about the process developers and planning officials say can be improved.

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The entire staff of the Town of Summerfield resigned Sunday evening, citing the treatment of the town manager, whose contract the council voted to let expire, leaving him without severance pay.

Read more below in my latest article 🔽

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The resignation of the staff also comes as Summerfield could have almost 1,000 acres de-annexed for the development of David Couch's potential major mixed-use project Villages at Summerfield Farms. https://t.co/PTTiFksTlF

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@SportingMads @NewhouseSports Congrats, Madie!!

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A hotel near PTI recently changed hands in a multi-million dollar transaction — my latest for TBJ, read more below.

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The hotel, which was previously a Best Western Plus, re-opened as a Clarion Pointe amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in April of 2020. https://t.co/BNuMtcSUxl

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Great to speak with Buddy Lyons, president of LeoTerra Development, Inc., on the company's upcoming $30 million concrete reinforced pipe plant in East Greensboro, driven by a lack of supply in the market and desire to fill the gap.
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