About 40 to 50 Nature Conservancy workers are expected to have relocated to downtown Durham’s American Tobacco campus by the end of the month, according to a news release Tuesday.
Durham County home sales were up 21 percent in December compared with sales in the month in the prior year, according to data from the Triangle Multiple Listing Service.
The nonprofit Boys and Girls Homes of North Carolina has opened a satellite office in Durham to serve Durham, Wake, Johnston, Orange, and Alamance counties.
A mobile laboratory rolled onto Bayer CropScience’s Research Triangle Park site last week to show off the science behind products that company officials say can be used in organic crop production. The company acquired the line through the purchase of a California-based business last year.
BASF is consolidating its U.S. non-crop herbicide, insecticide and fungicide businesses into a single department. About 30 jobs will be moving to the Research Triangle Park as part of the change.
Building permits filed in the last six months with Durham City-County Inspections allow for 123 percent more residential units in the city and county compared to what was filed for in the same period last year.
Delta Air Lines will expand its service between the Raleigh-Durham International Airport and Los Angeles to a daily service April 8.
A New Jersey-based company that provides vacuum bags, belts and filters has closed a plant in Oxford, affecting 35 workers.
A New Jersey-based restaurant and hotel franchise operator is planning to open a Zinburger Wine & Burger Bar at The Streets at Southpoint.
Durham County had the fourth-largest year-over-year decrease in average weekly wage among large U.S. counties in the second quarter of 2012, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The county’s average weekly wage fell 3.6 percent to $1,180 in the second quarter of 2012 compared with the same period in the prior year, according to preliminary data released by the bureau on Tuesday.
A spokeswoman for the parent company of Rockfish Seafood Grill said the restaurant in Durham at The Streets at Southpoint closed Monday since it was the only location for the company outside of Texas.
Medicago, a Canada-based company working to develop influenza vaccines produced using tobacco leaves, announced a contract on Monday that officials said could potentially mean jobs for the company’s local plant.
Durham-based Tryton Medical Inc announced Monday it has closed on $24 million in equity financing.
Hatteras Venture Partners, a Durham-based life sciences investment firm, reached its $125 million fundraising goal for its fourth investment fund with the support of a federal capital investment program.