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The Kings Mountain Herald has announced that the governor is coming to town on Monday. The story goes on to say that it is assumed that this will be the formal announcement that the server farm is coming.
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ms perdue would never miss a ribbon cutting ceremony.
It's OK with me. The state, county & city have all worked on this. In fact they've all been working together on multiple projects to bring businesses in here.
It's OK with me. The state, county & city have all worked on this. In fact they've all been working together on multiple projects to bring businesses in here.
Does this have anything to do with the server farm Apple has up in Lincol county?
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Does this have anything to do with the server farm Apple has up in Lincol county?
Nope.
Funny thing is that Maiden (in Catawba County) & Kings Mountain are competing for these things. Maiden won round one (Apple) & Kings Mountain won round two.
One company in Atlanta has purchased land & a couple of existing buildings in each town & is marketing both towns. Kings Mountain is closer to CLT, & has 85 & 74 going through town, so if access to those is a factor, Kings Mountain wins, hands down.
The newspaper article said that the assumption is that this is why the governor is coming. However, the construction has also begun to rehab the old dept. store, downtown, for Old Stone Steakhouse & Jax Backstreet Tavern, so who knows, other than she's coming.
All of this is involved with stimulus money, because the governor has put most of that money into state funds that can be accessed for various projects that will result in jobs & rehabbing communities. (Of course we know about the stimulus money that was handed to Charlotte & frittered away on the temp jobs, & the weird thing that UNC came up with in the Raleigh area, but this is where most of that money is going, if towns or counties are being pro-active & looking to get in businesses.)
Funny thing is that Maiden (in Catawba County) & Kings Mountain are competing for these things. Maiden won round one (Apple) & Kings Mountain won round two.
One company in Atlanta has purchased land & a couple of existing buildings in each town & is marketing both towns. Kings Mountain is closer to CLT, & has 85 & 74 going through town, so if access to those is a factor, Kings Mountain wins, hands down.
The newspaper article said that the assumption is that this is why the governor is coming. However, the construction has also begun to rehab the old dept. store, downtown, for Old Stone Steakhouse & Jax Backstreet Tavern, so who knows, other than she's coming.
All of this is involved with stimulus money, because the governor has put most of that money into state funds that can be accessed for various projects that will result in jobs & rehabbing communities. (Of course we know about the stimulus money that was handed to Charlotte & frittered away on the temp jobs, & the weird thing that UNC came up with in the Raleigh area, but this is where most of that money is going, if towns or counties are being pro-active & looking to get in businesses.)
I'm strongly against competition among NC counties against each other. I don't think that is good idea. The areas are relatively close to each other (Catawba, Lincoln, and Western Gaston) that they could actually market the area as a collective unit. It seems Western NC is becoming a server farm area. If I could dream a little bit, it would be nice if they got into the actual manufacturing of these servers. Good to see Western NC getting better.
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I'm strongly against competition among NC counties against each other. I don't think that is good idea. The areas are relatively close to each other (Catawba, Lincoln, and Western Gaston) that they could actually market the area as a collective unit. It seems Western NC is becoming a server farm area. If I could dream a little bit, it would be nice if they got into the actual manufacturing of these servers. Good to see Western NC getting better.
Well I don't know what the fly in the ointment is, for regionalization. See, being the eastern bulge of Cleveland County, & overlapping into Gaston County, I'm aware of a certain amount of co-uperation between Kings Mountain & Gastonia & Gaston County. However I'm not privy to much when it comes to Lincoln County & that's between here & Catawba.
It's not so much that Catawba & Cleveland are doing battle or anything, but the same company now has properties in Kings Mountain & Maiden. They are marketing both simultaneously.
I got the impression from something that I read in the Kings Mountain Herald that Cleveland County wasn't all that co-operative with the Apple server farm & that tipped the scales to Maiden. I might not have interpreted that correctly, but that's what I got out of some statements. Keep in mind that Kings Mountain is a whole different ball of wax to most of Cleveland County & most people here will go to Gastonia to shop before going to Shelby. Kings Mountain is, basically, focused on Charlotte, while in the rest of the county, not so much.
Cleveland County has now realized that these server farms, while not a windfall for jobs, are a huge source of tax money, even with the incentives. These companies are looking for large chunks of land to build huge buildings or expand current ones. They can get it cheaply out here. My guess is that those companies which are looking for better access to Charlotte will pick Kings Mountain.
All of this is involved with stimulus money, because the governor has put most of that money into state funds that can be accessed for various projects that will result in jobs & rehabbing communities. (Of course we know about the stimulus money that was handed to Charlotte & frittered away on the temp jobs, & the weird thing that UNC came up with in the Raleigh area, but this is where most of that money is going, if towns or counties are being pro-active & looking to get in businesses.)
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What did UNC propose?
They got their hands on stimulus money for some weird project that involved taping dancers &, if I remember correctly, studying their movements frame by frame. It was weird & created an uproar.
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Well, the governor is making a day of it in our area on Monday. Her schedule has been updated.
She will be in Charlotte for a job announcement, Mount Holly to visit the middle school, Kings Mountain for a job announcement, & Gastonia to visit Freightliner.
This should keep the news people busier than a cat scratchin' on a hot tin roof.
Which job announcement in Kings Mountain is up for grabs.
New steakhouse coming to Cleveland County | kings, mountain, new - Local News - The Star Online : The Newspaper of Cleveland County (http://www.shelbystar.com/news/kings-51393-mountain-new.html - broken link)
Data center jobs could fill niche | jobs, kings, mountain - Local News - Gaston Gazette (http://www.gastongazette.com/news/jobs-51528-kings-mountain.html - broken link)
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