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Charlotte confirmed as the East Coast headquarters of Fortune 500 #61 Centene with an information technology hub and the creation of 3,300+ jobs initially at an average wage of $100,000 on a 100+ acre 1,000,000 square foot campus in the University City neighborhood. The total investment by Centene will be $1 billion. The long term build out is to a total of 6,000 jobs.
So disappointed they decided to build a 1985-style sterile office park instead of a modern, mixed-use, transit-oriented development with connectivity.
Definitely agree. Great from an economic perspective for the city and it will provide good jobs for the area, but the development itself is definitely not forward thinking transit wise in a metro growing increasingly congested.
There's been a DGX in Raleigh for a couple of years now and it was surprisingly nicer than I expected it to be. Then again, my expectations were very low. I wouldn't expect to do my grocery shopping there on a regular basis but they will have some things to pick up to tide city residents over in a pinch. All in all, getting one of these stores is bit of a coup for a city the size of Wilmington. The concept is pretty new and there aren't that many of them at the moment.
14 stores nationwide, with a goal of adding 20 more this year. In places like Nashville, Cleveland, and Indianapolis.
But Wilmington has that urban environment and has tried to get a grocery store downtown for years. Store is in such a prime location that it will be used by both residents and tourists.
14 stores nationwide, with a goal of adding 20 more this year. In places like Nashville, Cleveland, and Indianapolis.
But Wilmington has that urban environment and has tried to get a grocery store downtown for years. Store is in such a prime location that it will be used by both residents and tourists.
Understood. getting full size grocers to commit to an urban location is a numbers game on their end.
There’s several articles from their CEO I think citing crime as a reason for relocating to Charlotte. He’s mentioned crime a lot.
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He says Charlotte, where the company is planning to build a regional headquarters, has its act together on such things as its airport, light rail system, city schools, crime and even the response to the coronavirus.
"You look at the totality of it," Neidroff told KMOX's Charlie Brennan and Amy Marxkors, "They had a little rise in crime, they jumped on it right away. The mask policy (instituted by North Carolina's governor). The things that are sound pubic policy. They really are thinking ahead. It's a very welcoming city. The whole time I've been there no one's asked me what high school I went to."
When asked if it's easier to recruit employees to Charlotte, Neidroff said, "There's no comparison." He cited his effort to recruit a senior person of color to St. Louis, "It was the weekend they announced the 13th child had been killed and they said, 'We're not coming to St. Louis.'".
Im actually surprised there aren’t more of these campuses. Lowe’s, Dimensional Fund, Honeywell and Lending Tree has very suburban campuses before relocating to high-rises in urban Charlotte.
Definitely agree. Great from an economic perspective for the city and it will provide good jobs for the area, but the development itself is definitely not forward thinking transit wise in a metro growing increasingly congested.
With all of the dense infill, congestion should be stable or even decreasing.
I don't know why y'all desire more and more compact density.
There's nary a tree in the first photo, and I think being integrated with the landscape, NC's main strong point, is ideal.
Y'all seem determined to become New York or something.
Or maybe you are trying to boost ridership on the light rail.
It's like the qualities and characteristics of large cities is most important to you.
You crave that atmosphere, but are not willing to enjoy it in other other cities, and especially the one place where it's seeming endless in size and scale, NYC.
That skyline shot is awesome and I love for people to guess the metro population from just looking at the picture.
Jaws would drop when you told them 2,9 million.
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