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North Carolina Commerce Park — Regional <br />Partnership between Alamance, Mebane & Graham <br />✓ 1,200 acre Business Park (originally 30 -40 landowners) <br />✓ Less than 3 yrs to: <br />• Land Assembled, Zoned & Utilities Installed <br />• Landed "Project Swordfish" — Walmart DC with $100M & 450 jobs <br />✓ To Date: $240 Million in Investment & 950 new jobs created <br />• Mebane invested over $150,000 for easements / environmental work <br />prior to full partnership coming together <br />• Equitably share in costs ($12+ Million in infrastructure & utilities) and <br />benefits <br />✓ Leverage state resources such as road construction and economic <br />incentive funds <br />✓ Community leaders have a collaborative mindset <br />TIMMONS GROUP NAICarolanticRealty 53 ORANGE COUNTY <br />Cop},'ight ©20122018 <br />° —. ­° ,_. NORTH CAROLINA <br />Timmons Group AI I Rights Reserved <br />Study Recommendations <br />Reinitiate Discussions & explore developing a research park with LINC- <br />Chapel Hill and taking advantage of the research and entrepreneurial <br />culture of the Research Triangle Park (RTP). <br />Developing a relationship with UNC and developing a common goal to <br />create a research park could be an easy step to help the County and <br />University attract talent and industry to the region similar to other <br />Universities throughout the Country. <br />BUDGET. Staff Time <br />TIMMONS GROUP INWICarolantic Realty 54 ORANGE COUNTY <br />Copyright CCG2012- 2018 _ d���smwo w NORTH CAROLINA <br />Timmons Group All Rights Reserved <br />1/22/2018 <br />27 <br />