Sanford, North Carolina

Sweden, France, and North America, with 10,000 employees, worldwide. Kalyani Bharat Forge, a global leader in metal forming and the world’s largest forging company, is going to invest $175 million to make aluminum parts for automobiles, while hiring 465 local people. All of this new and potential expansion, with its concomitant creation of hundreds of new jobs, has increased demand for residential home construction, as well as the revitalization of some of Sanford’s legacy neighborhoods. Director of Planning & Development, Marshall Downey, reports, “We’ve had quite a bit of interest in having larger planned communities and neighborhoods with your traditional single- family homes, but also with opportunities for townhomes and multi-family, giving our citizens choices, should they want to live here in Sanford and work at Pfizer or at one of these industrial businesses. We adopted a land-use plan a couple of years ago and have now positioned ourselves so that we feel like we can accommodate a developer’s desire to do that type of thing.” “We’ve created about 1,500 jobs in the last two years, and we just don’t have enough new homes for sale - especially to accommodate the 765 jobs that we just announced that aren’t even here yet,” Mann explains. “So, we created