By Everett Pitts Raleigh, NC – Four years after North Carolina leaders celebrated VinFast’s promise to build the state’s first automobile assembly plant in Chatham County, the state is now suing the Vietnamese electric-vehicle maker, alleging it failed to meet…
Pittsboro, NC – The Chatham Economic Development Corporation is accepting applications from businesses for its Chatham Loan Fund – COVID-19 program. The Chatham Loan Fund helps entrepreneurs and small business access capital by providing collateral towards loans. Through the updated…
Pittsboro, NC – Chatham Economic Development Corporation (EDC) is partnering with the Small Business Administration (SBA) and SCORE for a small business workshop on Wednesday, November 14, 2018 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at the Chatham Park Conference Center in Pittsboro.…
Raleigh, NC – The Triangle Business Journal has selected Kyle Touchstone, president of Chatham Economic Development Corporation, as one of the winners of its “40 Under 40” Leadership Award. The award recognizes 40 of the most influential and highly accomplished…
Siler City, NC – The Town of Siler City was awarded a $1.5 million grant through the Community Development Block Grant – Economic Development program, which is administered through the North Carolina Rural Infrastructure Authority (RIA). The grant, based on…
PITTSBORO, NC— Chatham County will receive public comments at its August 15, 2016 session on one-time incentives for a proposed 100-room hotel in Pittsboro, vital to positioning the new Agriculture & Conference Center as a site for conventions and other…
Pittsboro, NC – At its April 18 meeting, the Chatham County Board of Commissioners approved an option for purchase of the Chatham-Siler City Advanced Manufacturing (CAM) site west of Siler City. The county would only be obligated to purchase the…
Siler City, NC -The United States Army Corps of Engineers signed off on an approved jurisdictional determination for the Chatham-Siler City Advanced Manufacturing Site in mid-November. The delineation and verification services were completed by ECS Carolinas, LLP, a geotechnical and…
Pittsboro, NC – Chatham Economic Development Corporation (EDC) chair Chris Ehrenfeld announced Wednesday that Kyle Touchstone will lead the organization as its next president. Touchstone will begin February 1, 2016 and will succeed Dianne Reid, who is retiring at the…
Pittsboro, NC – Chatham Economic Development Corporation announced that its President Dianne Reid will retire at the end of February 2016 after more than eight years with the organization. “It has been an honor and a privilege to serve the…