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Changes now taking place in downtown Raleigh will transform the city's skyline in the spring of 2006. A public/private investment of over $1 billion in development will include a redesigned Fayetteville Street and a new, state-of-the-art convention center. Planners want more restaurants and activities downtown to appeal to locals as well as the individuals the center will bring in.
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Alamance Community College in Graham pioneered specialized biotech training. The program started in 1985, and for seventeen years it was the state's only program. Alamance has graduated 165 people in the program since 1985, and the graduates have a 90 percent hiring rate in biotech jobs. Alamance is now part of the community college system's BioWorks program, although it retains its own curriculum.
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Since 2003, Alleghany County has experienced an economic downturn, and over 2,000 jobs have been lost in the rural area. To spur the economy, county officials are planning to build a $10 million teapot museum in Sparta. Projections from a national firm hired to evaluate the museum's prospects are that the museum would attract 61,000 people annually, add $7.5 million in tourist revenue, and increase local sales and occupancy taxes by $250,000. The schedule for the opening of 300,000-square-foot-building is 2008.
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4.Becoming A Major Force In Amateur Sports by Maurer, Allan North Carolina Vol. 63 Issue 1, Jan 2005
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Maurer discusses Cary's growth as a center for amateur sports in the state and nation. The state amateur games are scheduled there for 2005 and 2006. Over 12,000 athletes and coaches will come, plus hordes of spectators. USA Baseball is opening four fields in Cary to train players for the World Cup, Pan Am, and Olympic games in 2008. Other sports facilities and events include the SAS Soccer Park, the thirty-court Cary Tennis Center, the Jimmy V Celebrity Golf Classic, and cross-country running courses. Sporting activities have a huge impact on the city's economy, attracting people to hotels, shopping centers, and restaurants.
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North Carolina is investing $640 million in a ten-year plan that it hopes will propel it to the Number One position in the nation in biomanufacturing. Maurer and Aitoro discuss the plan and its director, Dr. Leslie Alexandre, who is president and CEO of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
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Biotechnology is the most coveted industry in the world, and competition to attract it is very high. For the past two years North Carolina has ranked third in the nation in biotechnology, trailing California and Massachusetts. Efforts to strengthen the state's industry are well underway. “Jobs Across North Carolina†is a strategic plan for spreading biotechnology statewide, and indications are that many of the plan's goals are being met. Goals include offering tax breaks and other economic incentives to bring new biomanufacturing businesses and help existing ones to expand. Maurer discusses a number of biotechnology operations throughout North Carolina.
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Biotechnology is the most coveted industry in the world, and competition to attract it is very high. In 2006, the N.C. Biotechnology Center completed its plan to increase the industry statewide by opening satellite offices. The Piedmont Triad, the East, Southeast, West, and Charlotte now all have their own biotech directors. Each of these satellite offices seeks to involve regional leaders in creating and implementing a biotech vision. Maurer examines developments in these satellite regions. The states ranks third nationally in biotechnology.
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North Carolina is becoming a biotech state rather than just a state with a biotech hub. This can be observed in the development of biotech research parks from Kannapolis to Harnett County, as well as marine research facilities on the coast. Maurer examines developments at some of the research parks.
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Cary is North Carolina's seventh largest city with 107,000 residents and 6,000 businesses. In 2004, MONEY MAGAZINE designated the town as the best place to live on the East Coast. Above average home prices, residents with above average incomes (median $75,000), and a high percentage of residents with college degrees (67 percent) were demographics the magazine selected in making their selection. Maurer discusses this city that chose smart growth and culture over urban sprawl and still doubled its population every decade since 1960.
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Business incentives offered by the state of North Carolina and local governments have been successful in bringing major new companies to North Carolina and in expanding current businesses. Besides the tax breaks, businesses are attracted by the state's trained workforce; strategic proximities to major highways, airports, and seaports; and lifestyle amenities. Maurer discusses the state's top ten economic development projects and the top five development projects in each of state's seven regional districts. The top economic development project is Fidelity Investments plan to create 2,000 jobs and invest $100 million to build a new facility in the Research Triangle Park.
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Methodist College (Fayetteville), North Carolina State University (Raleigh), Campbell University (Buies Creek), and Queens College (Charlotte) offer professional golf management majors aimed at preparing students at careers as golf professionals. The programs combine business, liberal arts, and golf course work. The Professional Golfers Association requires graduates to pass a player ability test since much golf management includes teaching golf lessons. All four programs have substantial internship requirements of sixteen months.
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North Carolina's fifty-eight community colleges prepare workers for jobs in existing industries and for the jobs of the future. There is a campus practically within a thirty-minute drive of every state citizen. The community college system had 158,000 students enrolled in distance learning programs in 2004, and another 800,000 students took at least one course on campus. Maurer discusses some of the more unusual course offerings, including aquaculture and marine science, aviation, court reporting and captioning, crime scene investigation, cyberscience investigation, culinary technology and hospitality, and nanotechnology.
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While business incentives created some controversy, they have been successful in bringing major new companies like Dell Inc. to North Carolina and in expanding current businesses. New facilities and jobs were created. Maurer discusses the state's top ten economic development projects and the top five development projects in each of state's regional districts.
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Dole Foods owner David Murdock, in partnership with the University of North Carolina system and others, will build a biotech campus in Kannapolis. The biopolis will encompass the 250-acre former Cannon Mills plant and the city's entire downtown area. The $1 billion investment will create over 5,000 jobs. The project will include an Institute for Advanced Fruit and Vegetable Science formed by Dole Foods and N.C. State University, one million square feet of office and laboratory space, and a UNC-Charlotte math and science high schools for girls.
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Bill Johnson, president and COO of Progress Energy Inc., is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine executive profile. Johnson has served the company in a number of capacities since 1992, including group president for energy delivery, president and CEO for Progress Energy Service.
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