Commissioners, Mebane council train their sights on potential location for new cargo depot
New ‘transload’ facility would provide local rail access for industry
Alamance County’s leaders will make tracks to Mebane later this week to check out a site where area businesses may...
Precor files plan to close Whitsett plant, lay off 123 employees
Precor, an exercise equipment manufacturing company with a plant in Whitsett, has notified the state Department of Commerce that it will close its plant at 5704 Millstream Road in...
Mebane could get its own Tractor Supply
Mebane could soon be getting its own Tractor Supply store. There are more than 2,000 Tractor Supply stores nationwide; the stores specialize in products for home improvement, agriculture, lawn...
Commissioners go behind closed doors for incentives project; consultant hired to consider civic center;...
The first full week of March has delivered a fresh bloom of economic development activity to both Alamance County’s leaders and their counterparts in the city of Burlington.
For the...
Large warehouse project is not actually in Hawfields-area industrial park
A spec bldg. beside Amazon is half the size of
potential 788K square-foot bldg. across Kimrey Road
The brisk pace of warehouse building projects in and around Graham appears to be...
Former Sagebrush steakhouse renovations complete
Workers have completed renovations on the former Sagebrush restaurant at 800 South Main Street in Graham.
Owner David Morton said the property is getting ready to be put on the...
Could Walmart close east Burlington store due to theft?
QUESTION: Is the Walmart Supercenter on Graham-Hopedale Road in danger of being shut down due to problems with shoplifting?
ANSWER: The nation’s largest brick-and-mortar retailer has long been concerned about...
City offers LabCorp $2.2M to land $71M aviation center at Burlington-Alamance Airport
Burlington’s city council has approved $2.2 million in subsidies in order to smooth the proverbial runway for a new aviation center that the Laboratory Corporation of America plans to...
City council, commissioners go behind closed doors for economic development projects
While Burlington’s city council took action in an open meeting, and after a public hearing, on the LabCorp $71 million project at the Burlington-Alamance Airport – code-named “Project Sky...
Mebane Sheetz ready to re-open (next week)
The Sheetz in Mebane – closed since September for demolition of the previous store, built in 2005, and building an updated replacement – is almost ready to re-open.
The store,...
