The impact of luring companies to a community can have a significant economic impact on a region via job creation, increased tax revenue, infrastructure upgrades, supplier clustering and many other positive effects. As a result, the economic development business has be...

PEMBROKE - Officials at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke see a bright future in a musty former furniture store on a side street in downtown.

They're looking past the old tile floor, the bald fluorescent lighting, the chipped paint and the dingy brick.

They're...

Industrial Appreciation Banquet

LUMBERTON — Despite restructuring at the state Department of Commerce and the revamping of the N.C. Rural Center, a top adviser to Gov. Pat McCrory says Robeson County will still get money it needs for infrastructure.

“We know how importan...

Manufacturers expanding in Robeson County, creating up to 40 jobs

Flo-Tite Valve Controls and a sister company, Titan Flow Control, will expand their manufacturing operations in Robeson County, state officials said today. Flo-Tite plans to create as many as 25 jobs and...

NJ company to locate in city by Bob Shiles Staff writer

RALEIGH — A New Jersey company will locate a distribution facility in Lumberton that is expected to create 45 jobs and invest $1.37 million over the next three years.

Gov. Pat McCrory and state Commerce Secretary Sh...

LUMBERTON — The CEO of a company expected to create 150 good-paying jobs and invest more than $15.2 million locally during over the next three years says Robeson County beat out eight other counties in two states to get his business.

David Hargitt, the CEO of Cape Fear...

LUMBERTON — Cape Fear Arsenal Inc., a manufacturer of ammunition products in the Southeast, will locate a facility in Lumberton that will create 150 jobs and invest more than $15.2 million in the community during the next three years.

The plant will be in a vacant 65,00...

PEMBROKE — The president and chief executive officer of a food company said Thursday that his company is locating a processing facility near Pembroke because of the coordinated efforts of local and state officials and agencies involved in industrial recruitment.

“They d...