Building expansion plans for bringing a Dick's Sporting Goods to Target Center won Beaufort County Development Review Team last week.

In the last week we saw some big stories break about the vacant properties that hundreds of people have told us they'd love to see filled.

Girls Scouts across Colorado this weekend start selling cookies in front of stores, libraries and other spots.

Dick's Sporting Goods will open an approximately 50,000-square-foot store at Seminole Towne Center in Sanford , taking the top floor of the old Belk department store.

Police are looking for Carlton Ardrey, who is accused of shooting Gregory Tillery in the Northlake Mall parking lot.

Downtown New Bedford Inc. is throwing a party for Elaine Lima who retired after 35 years as owner of The Black Whale.

A Hibbett Sports employee assists a customer. Birmingham had one of the highest percentage growth rates for retail employment in 2011.

One of the three companies that are majority owned by Kynetic, the Conshohocken company led by entrepreneur Michael Rubin , is establishing a beachhead in Silicon Valley, the Philadelphia Business Journal reports.

"I see a lot of empty stores, but I also see a lot of potential," says one shopper a Jubilee Square.

If you are looking for a small, lightweight, reasonably priced and very basic emergency kit, then Adventure Medical Kits has one for you with the SOL Survival Medic .