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Restarting nuclear plants and new development in S.C.

By Mike Switzer

Published January 27, 2025 at 6:30 AM EST

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Mike Switzer interviews Alan Cooper, founder and editor of three online business news websites in South Carolina: MidlandsBiz, UpstateBizSC, and LowCountryBizSC. Alan talks about Santee Cooper exploring the re-opening of the nuclear plants in Jenkinsville, S.C., USC building a new School of Medicine in Columbia’s Bull St. District, Charleston breaking ground on a new pedestrian/bicycle bridge, and Greenwood, S.C. planning a golf tourism project.

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Mike Switzer

After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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