Bladen County, North Carolina

23 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 12 we’ll pursue are going to involve housing.” A new housing development is currently at a standstill in Bladen County, where contractors are providing new construction services on an as-needed basis. The County’s tentative solution to the shortage of small- and medium-scale residential settings is to secure grant funding to match local investment to get road, water, and sewer into planned residential areas, both to lower site improvement costs and incentivize local and regional developers to build local stimulus. The County is also looking at people recruitment to fill vacancies in its industrial sector and is developing a recruitment strategy focusing on veterans. “We’re very close to Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune,” Peterson mentions. “We’d love to have those folks, as they exit the military, come and become members of our community. One of our approaches that have so far produced very good 2.5x4 > DUKE-ENERGY.COM