Lumberton, North Carolina

4 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 10 community, Brandon Love, Deputy City Manager quips, “I’ve told people, Lumberton is the biggest small town you’ve never seen.” As the county seat, Lumberton is home to the Robeson County School District, a major source of employment to the city, along with UNC Health Southeastern, a 452-bed hospital with specialized heart and cancer treatment facilities. “There is a lot of employment within healthcare, education, and other professional sectors,” explains Horne. “We also have a large commercial base of businesses and restaurants that gravitate around the interchange of I-95. We’ve got five major interchanges here, and we’ve seen a lot of growth.” With the University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP) and Robeson Community College, as well as 28 hotels along the interstate, Horne asserts, “There are a lot of opportunities here. Our population is a little over 20,000, but our service area here is about 60,000 people. We serve as a regional shopping center. So, there’s a lot of job opportunities in the retail trade business also.” Anticipating major growth in the industrial sector, work is ongoing in the development of Lumberton’s industrial park. As Horne describes, “We do have industrial sites here, but we didn’t have a true industrial park. So, several years ago we started working on that concept and went to the state for some funding. After a lot of hard work and due diligence, we will have close to $8 million in development in this park.” Situated on I-95 and I-74, a 400,000 square foot Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Inc. distribution center is currently under construction in the industrial park. Horne reports, “Zurn is a large plumbing manufacturing company. Elkay is the largest stainless steel sink manufacturer in the U.S. This is going to be their southeast distribution center.” As the city works to install infrastructure ahead of the construction, Horne Supplying Canada and the world as the leader in the Industrial ball valve industry. Flo-Tite is a preferred vendor of choice in Lumberton, NC WWW.FLOTITE.COM • SALES@FLOTITE.COM Our valves are in over 400 of the Fortune 500 companies. Campbell Oil Company was started in 1948 and is a 4th generation family owned business. We provide a full line of petroleum products to residential and commercial consumers in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. To learn more about our wide range of services and oerings, please visit our website: campbellfuelsandlubricants.com Customer Satisfaction is Our #1 Priority 800 -247- 6026 LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROL INA