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I was offered and almost accepted a job in High Point a few years ago. It's a town that feels "old school NC" which I like.....but you can tell it had seen better days. It's trying to become more of a college town with HPU but that school's "resort" status seems out of place for High Point. Seems like its struggling to find an identity but I root for it.
Economic Diversity is Key for this place but it has tons of Water, I-95 runs right through it, and its a solo market no competition in for about an 1hr 15 mins away in all directions. The city could easily Peak to a Chattanooga size city in 30 years if the old NIMBYs would just pull their life support. Fayetteville has a endless brain power supply of soldiers ETS'ing out of the Army/Air Force plus 2 local colleges and another 20 minutes out from Fayetteville.
Wilmington
Only if the city can keep the retirees from up North out of the area because they are the new NIMBYs and they hate Wilmington Growth. If they can direct these clowns to nearby towns like Southport they will see tremendous growth but until then they will remain stagnant.
Forest City - it has a nice tree lined downtown with plenty of nearby on-street parking. You can tell they've been trying to keep things up, but there are many empty storefronts right now. It must have been prosperous in the past.
Economic Diversity is Key for this place but it has tons of Water, I-95 runs right through it, and its a solo market no competition in for about an 1hr 15 mins away in all directions. The city could easily Peak to a Chattanooga size city in 30 years if the old NIMBYs would just pull their life support. Fayetteville has a endless brain power supply of soldiers ETS'ing out of the Army/Air Force plus 2 local colleges and another 20 minutes out from Fayetteville.
Not sure if you mean that literally, but Fayetteville's population is 204,000 and Chattanooga's is 176,000.
For those that mentioned Greenville. A third $30 plus million dollar project is underway within its urban core. There are 3 more $30 plus million projects that will be starting in the next year in that same area.
Should keep the construction companies busy for awhile.
For anyone that has been to Greenville in the past, plan on going back in the summer of 2019 to see some amazing transformations....from the 10th St corridor, the Dickinson Avenue corridor, uptown Greenville and the football stadium.
Greensboro and Winston-Salem would fit the bill to some extent. They're pretty good places to live, but I feel that with the right leadership, they can do great things
Goldsboro.
With its close proximity to the Triangle and I-42 and I-795 both coming together, I can see Goldsboro adding quite a few people to the area.
Greenville is doing pretty well for itself but I agree with the posters that say it needs interstate access.
I'm a Triad native and I couldn't agree more. G'boro is more progressive than Winston likely due to the Jewish heritage and college-town atmosphere.
I'm an ECU alumnus and the town's steadily grown while I was there for five years and since I left about 12 years ago. I wouldn't hold my breath on interstate access, though. It's still in a very rural area. I'm just grateful you can get to there from Raleigh without going through Knightdale and Wilson.
Burlington about 25 miles east of Greensboro in the eastern edge of the Triad has potential. It's located between Greensboro and Durham and the city has a lot of retail and shopping establishments for a city it's size. I think Burlington could see more growth as development infills between the Triangle and Triad. Burlington city limits have even crossed over into Guilford County. Greensboro and Burlington are growing closer and closer together. I would liken Greensboro and Burlington to Charlotte and Concord
LabCorp, a major U.S. biomedical company is headquartered in downtown Burlington.
I'm an ECU alumnus and the town's steadily grown while I was there for five years and since I left about 12 years ago. I wouldn't hold my breath on interstate access, though. It's still in a very rural area. I'm just grateful you can get to there from Raleigh without going through Knightdale and Wilson.
AASHTO meets in November, so we'll know their answer then.
It wouldn't take much work to upgrade US-264 to interstate standards. It's already up to standard between I-95 and the Wilson/Greene County line. Also, if the Eastern North Carolina Gateway Act passes Congress, Greenville will also have future interstate access to the Hampton Roads metro region in Virginia (via the I-87 connection in Bethel), in addition to the interstate connection to the Triangle (and cross-country via the link to I-40).
Given that it's an election year, I wouldn't expect any movement on the bill until early 2017, where the bill will have to be re-introduced to a new Congress. It will likely be added as an amendment to a much larger transportation bill, similar to how the I-42 and I-87 bills were absorbed into the FAST Act that was passed last December.
The downside is that the bill doesn't have any federal funding attached to it.
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