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[rjp212]

I was thinking that as well, but if you google ACS moving to Charlotte, NC there are a lot of articles claiming it all over the nation.

[norm21499]

Well.....the article does contain direct quotes from the CEO saying "charlotte" multiple times. So unless the CEO is confused about where he is relocating his company to....or maybe it really is just bad reporting. I dont know......

[norm21499]

I suppose they might put jobs in Charleston since that might be where their products would leave to sea from port? I dont know! LOL!

[Rufus]

Doesn't Charlotte have an inland NC port office? May make it easier to ship to Wilmington or even to Charleston, Norfolk, or Savannah.  Plus it helps to have a major airport in your backyard.

[Urbanity]

A Dec 9th article in the Charleston Post and Courier states:

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Shipping lag times to and from Albuquerque, N.M, were hamstringing Cargo Composites' growing international business, so company president Tom Pherson went in search of a new headquarters for his airplane container manufacturer

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Owned by Advance Composite Structures LLC, Cargo Composites is renovating 32,000 square feet of space in Cainhoy Park off Clements Ferry Road and plans to open by the middle of January. The facility will house corporate offices as well as the company's engineering, aluminum machining, final assembly and shipping functions

I would think this means that Charleston got the headquarters...

Edited by Urbanity, 01 January 2012 - 09:15 AM.

[Windsurfer]

I can't find a 4th Ward thread, and I'm not sure this has been noted yet, but looks like an "artisan bakery and coffee house" is about to open in the old Gerard Tire building on North Graham. Pretty cool building for such a venture. I hope it takes off....and I hope they have room for a reading room.

[dubone]

That is great news!  I had noticed a sign for something but hadn't gotten to see what the plans were.  Fourth Ward has a strange dirth of these places.

[kermit]

An interesting twist to the PNC acquisition of RBC: PNC is now hiring in Charlotte for their Asset Management Group.No details about how many jobs. Nevertheless its good to see other banks continue to soak up some of our surplus banking talent.

The brief discussion is in the second portion of this CBJ article: http://www.bizjourna...e.html?page=all

[Third Strike]

7-Eleven is coming back to Charlotte, by converting 55 Sam's Mart stores. The conversion will be done this year!

http://www.charlotte...-area-sams.html

[dbull75]

I'm not sure 7-11 coming here is good news, but ok I guess I never paid attention enough to not realize there wasn't one around. I'd prefer Wawa personally.

[cltbwimob]

AvidXchange, a Charlotte based software company, is looking to add 85 jobs in Charlotte.
Extended Stay will hire 60-65 in Charlotte.
7-11 will add 120 jobs as part of their acquisition of 55 Sam's Mart stores.

I don't know why this wasn't mentioned, but Diamler trucks is adding 1200 jobs at it's Charlotte area plants.  This should put them back to within a few hundred employees of their highest employment levels.

[dbull75]

China-based RATO, a manufacturer of engines and all-terrain vehicles, will open its North American headquarters in eastern Lincoln county. They will have 40 executive level employees and up to 600 new employees at it's temporary manufacturing facility by this fall. The company is currently scouting sites for a permanent location. They also want to bring R&D and distribution facility to the US. They are currently scouting the Carolinas and Georgia for that, so there's a possibility all of this could reside right outside of Charlotte (I think, the article was slightly confusing). Total employment could be north of 1,000.

http://www.bizjourna...n.html?page=all

[28202]

That East Lincoln area is getting huge interest from developers.  Several large parcels have been acquired and now that the Lincoln building moratorium is over development is getting back underway. Might be the front end of a western side of Lake Norman explosion.

[browngeo]

The west side of Lake Norman does look to explode with easy access to airport and new 16 is really opening it up.

[dbull75]

Novant, the parent of Charlotte-based Presbyterian Healthcare, will be hiring 150 employees as a part of an electronic medical records project. They will be investing $500 million in their Fort Mill facility. Most of the jobs will include Information Technology, clinical and other business functions. The number of jobs could eventually grow to 300 at the facility.

http://www.bizjourna...t-mill-for.html

[kermit]

Bev is coming to the Chamber today for a 'sizable' jobs announcement. The Chamber announced the 'announcement' this morning. Anyone have any early news?

[kermit]

^ The Chamber Press Release:

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XPO Logistics to Open North American Operations Center Creating Over 200 Jobs

North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue announced today that XPO Logistics, Inc. will open a North American Operations Center in Charlotte.  XPO Logistics, a third party transportation logistics provider, is headquartered in Buchanan, Michigan. The company will create over 200 jobs in the functions of accounting and finance, human resources, IT, brokerage, and carrier procurement and operations, with an average wage of more than $56,606 annually. The company is currently in lease negotiations for Charlotte office space.

[dbull75]

Not sure this falls in the "Good News" category just yet, but former Starbucks CEO Jim Donald has been named the new CEO of Extended Stay Hotels. As you know they relocated to Charlotte last year from Spartanburg, SC. They recently ramped up hiring at their Ballantyne HQ with a rebranding and an IPO supposedly in the works. For those that don't know, Jim has a history of aggressively growing companies. He pushed Walmart into the grocery business and Starbucks grew dramatically during his tenure with the company. Will be interesting to see what he does for Extended Stay Hotels.

[kermit]

Not big news but the Chamber has announced that a company called Tire Intelligence (they provided data to tire manufacturers and dealers) will rent 7,000 sq ft in 1910 South blvd (the building where LaPaz used to be I believe). They will hire 30.

While the number of jobs created is small, I thought that the office location was interesting (I would have assumed a company like this would have preferred Ballantyne). Now if they could only get some of the Southborough office space rented......

[kermit]

Vahterus (a Finnish heat exchanger manufacturer) will open its first North American office in Matthews. Initial employment will be trivial, but it appears they will set up a manufacturing facility in the area within three years. Just guessing here but I suspect that this is another potential brick to build the local energy cluster.

http://charlottecham...rus_Release.pdf