Business View Magazine | September 2020

251 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2020 STANLY COUNTY , NORTH CAROL INA Charleston and Wilmington. Stanly County also has a robust industrial base. “We’ve had three really nice announcements in the first half of the year,” says Candice Boyd Lowder, the Director of the County’s Economic Development Commission. “Fiberon, located in New London, announced a $20 million expansion in May. Charlotte Pipe and Foundry, which is currently headquartered in Charlotte, will be relocating their foundry operations to Oakboro - that’s a $325 million, 400-job project, which will be a transformational project for western Stanly, and Albemarle-based, Nabell USA, also announced in May they would be adding 15 jobs and investing an additional $2.9 million in their existing facility.” Nabell USA Corporation is a leading manufacturer of custom bellows and protective covers for a variety of applications including: optical, medical, machine tool, material handling, clean room, semi- conductor, amusement, and many others. “In terms of industrial properties, we have several industrial parks – a couple are privately- owned, and two are publicly-owned,” Lowder adds. “The Albemarle Business Center (ABC) is a 282-acre park the City of Albemarle has developed for large industrial projects.” The publicly-owned, master-planned manufacturing and distribution ABC is conveniently located adjacent to North Carolina Routes 24/27 and U.S. Route 52. The site is well served by water, sewer, natural gas, electric, and broadband fiber access. “The County also has its own Riverstone Industrial Park, located in Stanfield,” Lowder continues. “We’re focusing our efforts on the front 42 of 76 acres. The County has invested over $1 million in infrastructure at Riverstone – water, sewer, and an entrance road. We have a full infrastructure that is available and ready to connect; and we’re aggressively marketing the park for manufacturing projects.” When it comes to incentivizing businesses to locate in Stanly County, Lowder explains, “We can fully evaluate the needs of each project, Director of Economic Development Commission, Candice Lowder