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7656
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Sandon Dennis made wine as a hobby in 1997. When the local Lutheran Church in Albemarle began using it for communion, parishioners started to meet Dennis in the parking lot after the service to buy bottles. In 1998, Cornell University researchers discovered the wine had the fourth highest levels of the antioxidant resveratrol that they had ever tested. Dennis soon left his job in computer consulting to become a full-time winemaker. Dennis Vineyards produces 26,000 gallons of wine a year, all produced from the sweet Muscadine grape native to North Carolina.
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This special NORTH CAROLINA magazine community profile supplement features Stanly County. Although the county is generally rural, with farms, mountains, streams, and small towns, urban amenities are less than an hour away in Charlotte. The county has nine incorporated towns, with Albemarle as the county seat. Textiles brought prosperity to the county in the late 1890s, and today the textile industry remains the third largest private employer. Retail sale increased over the last five years, and the county is developing as a regional shopping area. The county school system had the state's highest K-12 test scores in 2005. The county has boundless tourism opportunities, including Morrow Mountain State Park.
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7070
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Graham Denton began his banking career in 1971 with Bank of America. Today he is president of the Bank of America in Charlotte. The bank is the nation's largest retail bank. Denton is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine executive profile.
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7129
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Executives do not always have time to take full-fledged MBA courses. For businessmen who are time-pressed, North Carolina's colleges and universities offer a wealth of options to upgrade business skills. The article lists all of the state's MBA programs and includes the schools, enrollments in the program, types of programs offered, websites, and distinctions earned by the program.
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Educational opportunities are on the rise in Charlotte's metropolitan area. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte is building a $30 million uptown classroom building that will swell enrollment from the present 650 students to 7,500. Wake Forest is moving its Charlotte MBA program from South Park to an uptown, 30,000-square-foot building in 2008. Johnson & Wales, which opened in 2004, expects enrollment to reach 5,000 in 2008.
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Charlotte's business community has an international flavor with foreign companies looking for new places to locate and Charlotte-based companies looking for new areas abroad. Currently 700 foreign companies have installations located in Charlotte. Of these, German companies total 165, the highest German investment area in the country.
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This special NORTH CAROLINA magazine community profile supplement discusses Cabarrus County. Although the county has a diversified economy, two plants that were pillars of the economy closed recently and dealt the county a blow. Pillowtex shutdown completely, and Corning, Inc., halted production and furloughed 800 employees. However, retail growth, an airport that is the state's fourth busiest, and being a mecca for motorsports is helping the county rebound. County residents enjoy ample opportunities for education and outstanding healthcare.
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In 2000, the North Carolina General Assembly passed legislation that allowed the state's public universities to develop research parks. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte created the Charlotte Research Institute, which occupies one hundred acres on campus. Since its creation, research dollars from foundations have increased and the university has become more widely recognized for its work in such areas as optics, precision metrology, and bioinformatics. UNCC's long-range goal is to become a full research university, much like UNC-Chapel Hill.
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Charlotte, the nation's fifth-largest urban region and second-largest financial center, is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine's “community profile.†The city boasts tall buildings; the Carolina Panthers NFL team; the Carolina Bobcats NBA team; places for eating, shopping, living, world-class entertainment; and a wide choice of educational opportunities, including UNC-Charlotte, Central Piedmont Community College, which serves 70,000 students, and Johnson & Wales University, famous for its culinary and business schools.
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North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 62 Issue 11, Nov 2004,
p29-30, 32-34, 36-38, 40, 42-48, il, map
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5817
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North Carolina, the sixth most visited state in the country, attracts over 43 million tourists each year. The tourism industry pumps $12.6 billion a year into the state's economy and creates 194,000 jobs. It is also the state's second largest industry.
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A number of cities are building convention centers to boost their local economies. Wiiliams-Tracy discusses some of these cities, including Greenville and Charlotte, that have opted for this approach.
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Central Piedmont Community College, located in Charlotte, received a $500,000 grant from Congress to start an academy to train seasoned law enforcement officers in criminal forensics. Forensics is the practice of applying science to law.
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This special NORTH CAROLINA magazine community profile supplement discusses Montgomery County, the state's geographic center. Williams-Tracy describes the county's awesome beauty and welcoming business climate, two features that make the area a unique place to work, live, and play.
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In the fall of 2004, Johnson & Wales University, the nation's premier hospitality and career college, will open a campus in uptown Charlotte. This is a big economic success for the city. The university will bring 3,000 students and employees into the central business district. J & W will spend $82 million to build the university. At full enrollment in 2007, it will have a $60 million impact on the city.
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With six stories and 600,000 square feet of floor space, the Loray Mills in Gastonia was once the South's largest textile mill. Now owned by Preservation North Carolina, the old mill is being restored. The project calls for 240 condominiums, restaurants, office space, retail space, and a possible hotel. Developers plan to begin work on the project in 2001.
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