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Wisconsin Tissue, a subsidiary of Richmond, Virginia-based Chesapeake Corporation, will build a $160 million paper plant in Halifax County. The new plant will produce napkins, place mats, and paper towels. Initially employment will be 155 and 800 when the plant becomes fully operational. The county is one of the state's thirteen most economically distressed.
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Charlotte's new Seventh Street Station is a nine-story, $20 million building, with parking for 1,600 cars. The garage, which responds with soft, melodic tones when people touch parts of the walls, was designed in part by Christopher Janney. Janney is also the creator of the Sonic Plaza at Joyner Library on the East Carolina University campus.
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Architect Charles Gwathmey of New York is the designer of the new 42,000 square foot St. John's Museum of Art in Wilmington. A $4 million gift from the Bruce B. Cameron Foundation and an eight-acre site worth $2 million, donated by the Cameron children, made it possible. There is still $4.5 million to be raised. Completion date is set for the year 2000.
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Carolina Tractor & Equipment Company, now in its seventy-third year, is one of the country's oldest Caterpillar dealerships. The Charlotte company has been run by the Weisiger family for three generations. Edward I. Weisiger, Jr., is the current president and CEO.
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After almost ninety years, Duke Power Co. is closing, in January, 1999, the last remaining twelve of its once sixty-three appliance stores. In a time when electric customers lacked outlets to purchase appliances, the stores, which were located mostly in the company's branch offices, were a convenience. With the coming of Wal-Mart and other megastores, the company can no longer compete pricewise.
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Greensboro faces a water shortage and has put mandatory water conservation measures into effect. The shortage affects economic developer's ability to sell the city to potential businesses. Even those with small water needs of 75,000 gallons are being turned down. One source of relief is construction of the Randleman Dam, first proposed in 1937, which would create a 48 million gallon reservoir.
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Lexington has always been famous for its old-fashioned southern barbecue, and during the annual Barbecue Festival in October, over 120,000 people fill its eighteen barbecue restaurants. Now two additional attractions have come to town, the Bob Timberlake Gallery and the Richard Childress Racing Museum. Both attract over 100,000 yearly.
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The state is rapidly becoming a mecca for retirees. Individuals will find a number of new communities and well-established ones to choose from. The southeast coast, southwest mountains, and northern piedmont are profiled in terms of housing options, costs, amenities, and quality of life, etc.
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Starting in the 1970s, the state has grown into a national banking center through the vision of bankers including Tom Storrs and John Medlin. Four banks-Charlotte's First Union and Bank of America and Winston-Salem's BB$T and Wachovia-are among the country's forty most powerful banks. Banking assets in the state are almost $1 trillion.
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In April 1999, the Magic Wings Butterfly House opens. Located at Durham's Museum of Life and Science, the house is the first of its kind in the region and will contain approximately 1,000 butterflies representing 200 species from all over the world.
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Heritage tourism, or visiting an area for cultural enrichment, is one of the fastest growing segments of the state's second largest industry, tourism. This kind of tourism is also receiving national and international attention. Among the cities that showcase their heritage are Hillsborough, Salisbury, and Spencer.
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Brunswick County is poised for growth and expansion. For example, already in place is a pro-business infrastructure. A major deep-water port is nearby, as is the growing University of North Carolina at Wilmington, plus five industrial parks that beckon to start-up companies or those thinking of relocating.
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Heritage tourism, or visiting an area for cultural enrichment, enables towns of any size to market their existing attributes. From tiny Milton, with 400 people, to Charlotte, with hundreds of thousands, each city has history and culture to showcase. Towns can offer such niche interests as flowers, dulcimer and banjo making, pottery, and glassblowing.
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Earl N. Phillips, Jr., chairman and CEO of GE Capital First Factors of High Point, is the new chairman of the North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry (NCCBI) for 1999-2000. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1962 and later from Harvard Business School.
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Meredith College, the Southeast's largest private women's college, will induct its first female president in the summer of 1999, when Dr. Maureen Hartford becomes the school's seventh president. The Charlotte native was vice-president for student affairs at the University of Michigan prior to accepting the Meredith position.
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