The Triad Business Journal

Reynolds American Inc. will acquire Lorillard Inc. in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $27.4 billion.

In what transportation officials have been planning for decades, construction is underway in northwest Guilford County on an expensive stretch of interstate highway that holds the promise of further boosting the Triad's growing aviation industry.

Earlier this month the more than 1,800-acre megasite in Chatham and Randolph counties received official state certification, making it the largest site in North Carolina with the designation and the only certified Megasite.

Wisconsin-based Ashley Furniture Industries Inc. announced in 2012 that it would open an $80 million distribution and manufacturing facility in Davie County that would create 550 jobs. But a series of delays and obstacles prevented the project from moving forward for a year.

Wake Forest Baptist is showing off the latest addition to Innovation Quarter on Friday, June 13, with the grand opening of its renovated 525@Vine complex. The former RJR buildings in Winston-Salem were brought back to life by Baltimore-based Wexford Science & Technology, a firm that's become the major landlord within the research park and is helping plot its course in the future.

In this week's Business Report, a team of reporters from the Triad Business Journal is taking a closer look at the possible merger between  Reynolds American & Lorillard Tobacco Co. and the impact the merger could have on the Triad.

By almost any measure, the story of High Point University in the past decade under the leadership of University President Nido Qubein, has been one of unparalleled growth and change.

NewBridge Bank Park, home of the Single-A Greensboro Grasshoppers, is now in its 10^th season. Year after year, the ballpark ranks among the top teams in its league for attendance even if the Grasshoppers are losing. Yet while the ballpark has been an economic success for the team owners, it's harder to tell if it has had a similar impact on downtown Greensboro.

Greensboro-based Allen Industries is one of the nation's largest makers of high-profile commercial signs.

Each week, WFDD contributor Justin Catanoso interviews a reporter from our media partner, the Triad Business Journal. This week's Business Report focuses on a major player in the state's healthcare industry: Winston-Salem-based Novant Health.