Business View Magazine | February 2019

public-private partnerships.We expect that’s go- ing to go a long way to improving Kinston and seeing more investment in our downtown. And we wanted to ensure that the project was going to last for a really long time, so we had the vision to go in and do all the water and sewer lines on Queen St.– some were over a hundred years old. So we solidified that project as something that is going to last well into the future.We’re not going to have to come back and do street cuts to repair sewer lines down the road.” Sears reports that in addition to major infra- structure projects, Kinston has changed some of its zoning laws to encourage people to live downtown in second and third floor loft apart- 192