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Restaurants, retail and residential, of course, were popular with local readers in 2024. But it was an office exodus and drama around a luxury estate that fascinated Triad readers the most.
Restaurants and retail again remained popular with Triad Business Journal readers in 2024, but the topic that garnered the most attention centered on a particular luxury home. More specifically, a dispute between two of Greensboro’s most accomplished business leaders, over that home.
Triad Business Journal looked back through the analytics for the top articles of the year in terms of visits, and three of the 24 involved the acquisition, and subsequent demolition, by billionaire developer Roy Carroll of the 21-room estate at 710 Country Club Drive in Greensboro from Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, the founder and CEO of Greensboro’s Pace Communications.
While Wells Fargo’s exit of a whopping 700,000 square feet of office space in Winston-Salem garnered the most visits as a single story, those three articles on the Carroll-McElveen Hunter transaction collectively drew more attention, as two were in the top eight in visits and another wasn’t far behind at No. 13. As noted earlier this month, TBJ also picked their squabble as one of the most notable news stories of the year, though our newsroom ranked it 17th.
Of course, Carroll’s prominence as a developer means most everything he does is going to resonate with our readership, so it’s not surprising to see that Carroll Cos.’ plans for the $210 million housing project, dubbed The Madison, was also on the list of readers’ favorites.
Our readers showed us in clicks that they were also deeply interested in where they spend money, with seven different restaurant stories making the top 24. Retail was also popular, with three different Food Lion-related stories and another one on a long-awaited Publix making our list. Residential real estate was also very popular, both in terms of luxury home listings and the development of homes, whether subdivisions, apartments or even build-to-rent houses.
See the list below to see where certain stories ranked, and — if you missed them previously — click on the headline to learn more. Continue to scroll to see our newsroom’s picks of the year’s top stories.
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No. 1 — Risant Health completes acquisition of Cone Health
No. 2 — Atrium, Cone reach settlement on Greensboro hospital
No. 3 —The Grounds, $150M, 100-acre development, coming to W-S
No. 4 — ProKidney backs out of Guilford deal, invests in W-S
No. 5 — Ryan Cos. backs out of N&R project, building torn down
No. 6 — Ross Dress for Less picks Randolph for $450M facility, 1,400 jobs
No. 7 — Hanesbrands sells Champion brand for $1.2B. Wall Street approves.
No. 8 — IQE to invest $350M in expansion of Greensboro chip-making facility
No. 9 — North Carolina’s first Buc-ee’s is coming to Mebane
No. 10 — Hanes sells HQ to Carolina U., moves downtown Winston-Salem
No. 11 — N.C. A&T Chancellor Harold Martin retires
No. 12 — State of the Triad office market
No. 13 — More than 1,500 Triad workers laid off in 2024
No. 14 — GA de-annexes David Couch’s 900-acre Summerfield property
No. 15 — Topgolf Greensboro opens, development follows
No. 16 — Boom celebrates opening of Superfactory, talks of adding more
No. 17 — Carroll’s purchase of McElveen-Hunter’s mansion leads to squabble
No. 18 — Toyota ‘ripple effect’ making waves across Triad
No. 19 — International manufacturing surges in Triad
No. 20 — High Point University opens law, dental schools
No. 21 — Homegrown Core Technology expands into $28M facility
No. 22 — UNC-Greensboro cuts 20 programs in money-saving move
No. 23 — Foster plans to become $500M company after move to W-S
No. 24 — National homebuilders gobble up Triad land
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