Magazine awards SC the 2013 Silver Shovel

Area Development magazine, a national, leading economic development publication, has awarded South Carolina with its 2013 Silver Shovel award for the state’s economic development efforts last year.  Area Development magazine recognizes states in four population categories that have recruited the highest quality and most jobs per capita, which have broken ground in the previous year. This year marks the eighth year of the awards. South Carolina was the Silver Shovel winner this year in the 3 to 5 million-population category. This year marks the fifth Shovel Award South Carolina has collected from Area Development. In 2011 and 2012, South Carolina was awarded a Gold Shovel for its economic development efforts, and had previously been awarded a silver shovel in both 2009 and 2010.