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* Indicates not in attendance <br />Over the following month, some other service providers were contacted to also help <br />support the project, especially in disseminating a potential users' survey. These include <br />the following individuals: <br />Milele Archibald, Director Doris Schomberg, Director <br />Small Business Center Culinary Program <br />Alamance Communi Colle e Alamance Community College <br />John Parker Penny Hawkins, Owner/Chef <br />Good Work The Carolina Gourmet <br />The members of the advisory committee represent a broad cross-section of agricultural <br />and business service providers located throughout the four-county region, culinary <br />professionals, directors of two area farmers markets, and chief officers of two of the <br />largest local food retail outlets. The level of involvement from the community speaks <br />well of this project's inclusiveness, as well as the success in soliciting for surveys from <br />community members who might be interested in accessing a shared use food processing <br />center. <br />The region has a remarkably strong, diversif ed economy, as well as a strong food <br />infrastructure that is willing and able to support local value added food production. Two <br />major food retailers in the natural/local food market were active participants and provided <br />monetary support for the feasibility study. Decision makers at Whole Foods Markets and <br />Weaver Street Market expressed strong interest in sourcing products from local food <br />entrepreneurs and farms manufacturing at a value added food processing center. Dan <br />Thomas, the market manager of the Chapel Hill Whole Foods, met with the lead <br />researcher and was enthusiastic about sourcing high quality value added food items made <br />locally. Weaver Street Market assisted the project by giving researchers their. local <br />vendor list. Over 100 Weaver Street vendors .were mailed a potential users survey. <br />Other retail outlets including the new Chatham Marketplace in Pittsboro, and a planned <br />locally owned supermarket in Burlington, expressed interest in the project and assisted in <br />disseminating surveys to potential users. Area restaurants owners, most notably Andrea <br />Reusing of Chapel Hill's Lantern Restaurant, actively promoted the feasibility study <br />through word of mouth and informing other independent restaurants of the project. <br />Geographically, the four counties are not a distinct social or economic area. They are <br />instead a part of a much larger, mostly urban region usually identified with Research <br />Triangle Park (RTP), one of the largest high technology business parks in the country and <br />located in eastern Durham and western Wake counties. Raleigh, located just to the west <br />of RTP, is the state capital and the second largest city in the state. The North Carolina <br />Rural Economic Development Center reports that Wake County had a population of <br />786,522 in 2006. <br />15 <br />
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