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Grants Awarded | 2006-2007 Economic Catalyst Awards
 The Golden Leaf Foundation is pleased to announce that the
following North Carolina
non profits and government entities have been awarded economic catalyst grants during the current grant cycle.
Click on the North Carolina map icon for each grant recipient to obtain a map of the counties
served by that grant.
| Grantee | Anson County |
| Contact | Mr. Andrew Lucas
114 North Greene Street
Wadesboro, NC 28170
Tel: (704) 694-2796
Fax: (704) 694-7015
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| Project Title | Hornwood Sewer Project |
| Grant Amount | $300,000 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this grant is to assist with the installation of 10,000 linear feet of gravity sewer line and a new pump station to create a sewer capacity needed to serve an expansion at a local textile manufacturing plant where 30 new jobs will be created and 288 positions retained. This sewer expansion project will serve Hornwood Incorporated, two other businesses and the Town of Lilesville. |
| Service Area |
Anson
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| Grantee | Beaufort County Committee of 100, Ltd. |
| Contact | Mr. Tommy G. Thompson
705 Page Road
Washington, NC 27889
Tel: (252) 946-3970
Fax: (252) 946-0849
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| Project Title | Carver Machine Works |
| Grant Amount | $1,000,000 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this grant is to acquire manufacturing equipment that will be leased to Carver Machine Works at fair market value. The equipment will be incorporated in a 50,000 square foot manufacturing facility that Carver Machine Works is building at their current 7-acre site just outside the City of Washington. The new facility will allow Carver Machine Works to retain 65 jobs and create 50 new jobs over three years. |
| Service Area |
Beaufort |
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| Grantee | Beaufort County Committee of 100, Ltd. |
| Contact | Mr. Tommy G. Thompson
705 Page Road
Washington, NC 27889
Tel: (252) 946-3970
Fax: (252) 946-0849
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| Project Title | Industrial Building Upfit--Impressions Marketing |
| Grant Amount | $1,128,000 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this grant is to assist the Beaufort County Committee of 100 with upfit of a 387,000 square foot manufacturing facility that will be purchased by this economic development agency and leased to Impressions Marketing Group to facilitate a planned expansion. This project will enable the company to retain 162 jobs and create an additional 120 jobs over the next three years. |
| Service Area |
Beaufort |
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| Grantee | Bladen County Hospital |
| Contact | Mr. Jay Leatherman
501 S. Poplar Street
Elizabethtown, NC 28337
Tel: (910) 862-5149
Fax: (910) 862-5129
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| Project Title | Bladen County Hospital |
| Grant Amount | $515,880 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this grant is to support the procurement of clinical equipment, training, and marketing activities that target improvements at Bladen County Hospital. The project will allow the hospital to increase revenues by enabling the facility to provide services currently not available and increase patient retention by avoiding patient transfer to other facilities outside the county. The project will increase health care services offered in the emergency room and surgical suite and establish a new pediatrics unit. This grant will assist with the retention of 300 full and part-time jobs at the facility. |
| Service Area |
Bladen |
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| Grantee | City of Goldsboro |
| Contact | Mr. Joe Huffman
City of Goldsboro
P.O. Drawer A
Goldsboro, NC 27533
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| Project Title | City of Goldsboro Infrastructure |
| Grant Amount | $1,500,000 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this grant is to assist the City of Goldsboro with improving the City's water and sewer infrastructure in order to support and promote industrial and commercial development in the City and in Wayne County. |
| Service Area |
Wayne |
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| Grantee | City of Kings Mountain |
| Contact | Ms. Marilyn Sellers
PO Box 429
Kings Mountain, NC 28086
Tel: (704) 734-0333
Fax: (704) 734-4619
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| Project Title | Community Boat Hoist |
| Grant Amount | $200,000 |
| Project Description | This grant will be used to assist the City of Kings Mountain with the construction of a boat lift at Moss Lake on property owned, controlled and maintained by the City. This boat lift, rated to 50,000 lbs. capacity, will be used by the Project Float manufacturer to test boats and demonstrate boats for dealers and distributors and to increase public access to the City's recreational facility. Over a five year period, this company is planning to invest over $18 million and create 640 jobs as part of this project. |
| Service Area |
Cleveland |
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| Grantee | City of Rocky Mount |
| Contact | Mr. Peter Varney
PO Box 1180
Rocky Mount, NC 27803
Tel: (252) 972-1111
Fax: (252) 972-1232
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| Project Title | Project Logs |
| Grant Amount | $125,000 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this grant is to extend public sewer service to allow an existing local log home manufacturing business to expand its operations by adding customer service and marketing services at its Nash County facility. This project is expected to create 50 new jobs and retain 112 positions over 3 years. |
| Service Area |
Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash |
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| Grantee | City of Wilson |
| Contact | Mr. Barry G. Parks
PO Box 10
112 North Goldsboro Street
Wilson, NC 27894
Tel: (252) 399-2300
Fax: (252) 291-9267
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| Project Title | Reclaimed Water Extension Bridgestone/Firestone |
| Grant Amount | $175,000 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this grant is to assist the City of Wilson with the extension of water lines by approximately 9,000 feet from the reclaimed water main on Firestone Parkway. |
| Service Area |
Wilson |
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| Grantee | Handy Sanitary District |
| Contact | Mr. Ron Niland
P.O. Box 987
17403 S NC Hwy 109
Denton, NC 27239
Tel: (336) 858-2553
Fax: (336) 859-3504
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| Project Title | Sewer Expansion Project |
| Grant Amount | $250,000 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this Golden LEAF grant is to assist with installation of a 3.5 mile sewer line past Loflin Fabrication Company and the Denton Farm Park to the Denton sewer pump station. The project will positively impact the economy in southern Davidson County in two major ways: by allowing Loflin Fabrication to expand its operations and stimulating agri-tourism in southern Davidson County. |
| Service Area |
Davidson |
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| Grantee | Lenoir County |
| Contact | Mr. Mike Jarman
PO Box 3289
Kinston, NC 28502
Tel: (252) 559-6450
Fax: (252) 559-6454
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| Project Title | Project Stretch |
| Grant Amount | $1,150,000.00 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this Golden LEAF grant is to assist Lenoir County with public infrastructure improvements associated with the expansion of an existing industrial facility in the county. The project will retain 33 jobs with an average salary of $57,173 and create 66 new jobs which pay an average salary of $57,960. |
| Service Area |
Lenoir |
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| Grantee | McDowell County |
| Contact | Mr. Charles R. Abernathy
60 E. Court Street
Marion, NC 28752
Tel: (828) 652-7121
Fax: (828) 659-3484
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| Project Title | McDowell Industrial Park - Site 3 |
| Grant Amount | $120,000 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this grant is to assist McDowell County with the construction of a public road in the McDowell Industrial Park. The road will serve three sites as well open up developable property at the rear of the park. An identified company locating in the Park will create 17 jobs. |
| Service Area |
McDowell |
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| Grantee | Nash County |
| Contact | Mr. Robert M. Murphy
120 W. Washington Street, Suite 3072
Nashville, NC 27856
Tel: (252) 459-9800
Fax: (252) 459-9817
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| Project Title | West Nash Corporate Center and Project Middlesex |
| Grant Amount | $300,000 |
| Project Description | This grant will assist with the design and construction of a roadway that would provide Project Middlesex and others in the industrial park more direct access to US Hwy 264. Project Middlesex will initially build a 200,000 square foot distribution and light manufacturing facility which will employ 212 people within three years and invest $10 million. The average wage of the jobs is $38,000 per year. |
| Service Area |
Nash |
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| Grantee | Robeson County |
| Contact | Mr. Kenneth N. Windley, Jr.
701 N. Elm Street
Lumberton, NC 28358
Tel: (910) 671-3022
Fax: (910) 671-3010
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| Project Title | Robeson County Landfill Methane Gas Project |
| Grant Amount | $690,000 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this grant is to assist Robeson County with the installation of a landfill gas collection system. A company will lease the site from the County and use the system in the production of ethanol. The plant will create 17 new jobs and will be located in the St. Paul's area of Robeson County. The company also intends to purchase its corn locally. |
| Service Area |
Wayne |
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| Grantee | Town of Ayden |
| Contact | Mr. Adam Mitchell
221 West Avenue
PO Box 219
Ayden, NC 28513
Tel: (252) 746-7031
Fax: (252) 746-7075
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| Project Title | 2007 Commercial Park Water & Sewer Improvements |
| Grant Amount | $101,205 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this project is to extend public infrastructure, water and sanitary sewer, necessary to serve a new industry locating to Minges Corporate Park and creating 165 jobs over a three year period. Expansion of public infrastructure will serve other tenants at the industrial park and benefit the Towns of Ayden and nearby Grifton. |
| Service Area |
Pitt |
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| Grantee | Town of Holly Springs |
| Contact | Mr. Daniel Weeks
PO Box 8
Holly Springs, NC 27540
Tel: (919) 552-6221
Fax: (919) 552-5569
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| Project Title | Project Novartis |
| Grant Amount | $1,250,000 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this grant is to assist the Town of Holly Springs with the completion of the sewer force main and gravity line that is part of the public infrastructure improvements needed for Project Novartis. This supplemental award is made in support of the Town's infrastructure commitments to attract Novartis and create a minimum of 350 jobs for area residents. |
| Service Area |
Chatham, Lee, Wake |
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| Grantee | Town of Lawndale |
| Contact | Ms. Paula Chewning Walls
PO Box 256
Lawndale, NC 28090
Tel: (704) 538-3146
Fax: (704) 538-2145
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| Project Title | Thunder Valley Raceway - Lawndale |
| Grant Amount | $200,000 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this grant is to supplement resources from the NC Rural Center's Critical Needs Program and the Town of Lawndale to complete infrastructure so that effluent can be pumped to and treated by Shelby's wastewater treatment facility. The sewer line extension will serve the Thunder Valley Raceway, which has expansion plans that will result in the creation of seventeen jobs and the retention of three. The sewer infrastructure is also essential to potentially locating a warehouse operation to the area that would hire an additional 40 employees. |
| Service Area |
Cleveland |
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| Grantee | Town of Scotland Neck |
| Contact | Mr. Robert Partin
1310 Main Street
PO Box 537
Scotland Neck, NC 27874
Tel: (252) 826-3152
Fax: (252) 826-2107
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| Project Title | Carter & Mayes, Inc. Dye Pit Renovation |
| Grant Amount | $62,550 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this grant is to make needed improvements to the public sewer system which will facilitate the creation of 115 jobs at Carter & Mayes, Inc., a manufacturing plant in Scotland Neck. Funds will be used to renovate the existing dye pit and install new sewer lines to reconnect the pit to the public wastewater system. Current commitment is 10 jobs. |
| Service Area |
Halifax |
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Golden LEAF Foundation
301 N. Winstead Avenue, Rocky Mount, NC 27804
252-442-7474 phone 252-442-7404 fax 888-684-8404 toll free
www.goldenleaf.org
email: info@goldenleaf.org
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