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More to come in downtown HS if the 120 N Main development gets off the ground. https://www.hollyspringsnc.us/2436/22-DP-02-PLDP202200021 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Dedicated thread for the smaller cities and towns around the Triangle. Had to run out to Clayton this past weekend for a car part, and drove through downtown on my way back.  Sad to see it so emp

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Sanford and Lee county seem to be the manufacturing hub for the Triangle with lots of pharma companies there but close enough to Cary and Apex for their execs to live.   I agree Lee County is coming m

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New German company setting up shop in Knightdale....

A German packaging company is opening a facility in Knightdale to be closer to the Triangle's booming pharma industry.

The company, called Optima, is made up of four business units, one of which focuses on the pharma industry and offers machine solutions for packaging products, like filling liquid medications into vials and syringes. The company already has sales and service personnel in North Carolina, but last year decided to build a physical location to be closer to its customers in the Triangle.

 

"The new service hub will bring us even closer to our customers and allows us to provide faster service along with enhanced spare parts availability," said Ulrich Unterriker, managing director of the Optima Machinery Corp., in a statement.

Optima operates subsidiaries around the world, including its U.S. office called Optima Machinery Corp. which is based in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and has been in operation for nearly 40 years. The service hub the company is opening in Knightdale sometime in the middle of this year will be its second physical location in the U.S.

Opening a facility near Raleigh will provide a hub for service and support personnel and a place where the company can meet with customers. The site will also stock spare machine parts, which will allow the company to react quicker to nearby customers, Unterriker told the Triangle Business Journal.

With the opening of the facility, the company also plans to increase its number of employees in the Triangle and throughout the U.S. In its statement, the company said it has more than 50 sales and service employees who provide on-site support to pharmaceutical customers in the U.S.

Optima, the parent company, employs more than 2,650 people — mostly based in Germany — according to an annual report the company released in April 2021. Additionally, the report said the company's consolidated revenue in 2020 was more than 420 million euros — about $455 million at the existing exchange rate.

 
Aside from pharma, Optima's other business units focus on packaging machines for consumer products like food and cosmetics; paper hygiene products and life science products, like wound dressings, according to the company's website.

Optima is one of a number of pharma or biotech service providers who are moving into or expanding in the Triangle as the pharma and biotech industries continue to grow.

In December, a Canadian contract vivarium organization called Mispro Biotech Services announced its plans to build a 6,000-square-foot facility in Research Triangle Park. This is in addition to an existing 10,000-square-foot facility the company operates. The company offers biotech firms rental space to conduct their own preclinical research studies involving rodents.

Last month, Florida-based biomedical firm Cryo-Cell International (NASDAQ: CCEL) unveiled its plans to continue growing its Triangle presence with a 56,000-square-foot facility in Durham. This facility will be the site of the company's new service called ExtraVault, through which it'll offer its biostorage services to biopharmaceutical companies and health-care institutions.

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Outer ring city but Pinehurst will now be the home of the relocated World Golf Hall of Fame (coming from Florida)\

""The World Golf Hall of Fame is relocating from Florida to Pinehurst, the United States Golf Association announced Wednesday.  The hall of fame will be part of the previously announced Golf House Pinehurst project, which will include office space for the USGA, a state-of-the-art research and innovation facility and a visitor center.  The hall of fame's relocation represents the latest example of Pinehurst and Moore County officials angling to make the Sandhills the hub of golf in the U.S.  "There's no better connection to golf's past, present and future than Pinehurst, and no organization that works harder than the USGA to preserve the history of this great game," said Mike Whan, CEO of the USGA. "We look forward to celebrating the greatest moments, and golf's greatest athletes, by including the World Golf Hall of Fame as an important part of our new Pinehurst home."""

https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2022/07/20/world-golf-hall-of-fame-pinehurst.html

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