Pittsboro, NC – The Town of Pittsboro seeks to form a Downtown Pittsboro Advisory Board to serve as an advisory committee for the Town’s downtown efforts. This includes assisting in the administration of the Town’s Main Street affiliate program. A…
Siler City, NC – The Central Carolina Community College Small Business Center presented seven participants from the spring 2022 SPARK entrepreneurship program with certificates on Tuesday, May 3, at the CCCC Siler City Center. One participant was awarded $5,000 in…
Pittsboro, NC – The Malcolm Bryant Corporation, Mosaic @ Chatham Park, and Sanford Contractors will participate in a groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday April 21 at 11 am for The Pittsboro Hampton Inn & Suites located at 324 Freedom Parkway. Madison…
By Theresa Opeka Raleigh, NC – A Vietnamese automaker has announced plans to build a $4 billion electric-vehicle assembly and battery-manufacturing plant at Triangle Innovation Point in Moncure, about 30 miles west of the Triangle. To attract the newly formed…
Raleigh, NC – VinFast, the Vietnamese auto manufacturer building a new line of electric vehicles, has selected North Carolina for its first North American automotive assembly and battery manufacturing plant, creating 7,500 jobs. The company intends to invest up to $2…
Raleigh, NC – The North Carolina Railroad Company (NCRR) is one of several partners named in the recent announcement that Vietnam-based VinFast, a private automotive manufacturer, will construct its first U.S. based electric vehicle (EV) assembly and battery manufacturing facility…
Pittsboro, NC – VinFast, an electric vehicle company headquartered in Los Angeles, California, announced Tuesday that it will establish a new facility in Chatham County. VinFast is part of Vingroup, the largest privately held company in Vietnam. The facility will…
Siler City, NC – The Central Carolina Community College Small Business Center, Chatham Chamber of Commerce, and Mountaire Farms have partnered on a new entrepreneur-development program that will introduce prospective and new business owners in Chatham County to the concepts…
By Donna King Raleigh, NC – The $846 million subsidy deal that North Carolina struck with Apple just topped the “year’s worst” list of a nonpartisan economic think tank. The Center for Economic Accountability selected the 39-year agreement to put…
By John Hood Raleigh, NC – As they witness rapidly escalating costs for building, buying, and maintaining homes, the vast majority of North Carolinians clearly want their leaders to do something about affordable housing. What that something ought to be,…