Let's Talk About North Carolina
North Carolina has a lot going on. From a focus on technology and research & development as well as being home to not only a major U.S. financial center – but a number of Fortune 500 firms also call North Carolina home. Over 75% of the NASCAR industry’s employees and drivers are based within 2 hours of Charlotte. The Wright Brothers were here. It has a rich manufacturing base and work force to go with it. Logistics wise one can easily access a number of key suppliers in the Southeast.
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I think NC is a logical choice for Carbon Motors for many of the reasons you've already given. I have some work experience in NC in the Raleigh/Durham area. Think also about employee retention when picking your new home. As an aside, I have a real interest in becoming intimately involved with Carbon Motors either now or at the earliest opportunity and have many work experiences to assist you. Thanks for your time Bill. Hope to be a part of Carbon Motors in the near future.
The E7 is definitely generating interest throughout the country as an innovative & crutial product that will serve not only the financial interests of local & federal governments, but will serve public safety & general public concerns as it changes the face of law enforcement in our society. Great job by Carbon Motors for introducing this vehicle, & especially for involving the very people who will use it every day. Charlotte will welcome the company & would be honored to have the world's first specialty auto maker of this kind. There is no shortage of talent within the Charlotte MSA to build up & sustain the many opportunities with the company, talent that will help drive the company beyond current plans.
I think you should look at Rowan and Cabbarrus Counties in North Carolina. Mid way between Charlotte and Greensboro. Has a lot of employees from factories that have gone away. Has tremendous factory workers from Freightliner and Cannon Mills plants with Interstate 85 running through the middle of it.
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Think -North Carolina and Virginia Combination. A great combination would be the Va. ports, Ford manufacturing plants and workers, other auto part makers in the Tidewater aand Nc area and the great new testing and design facility of NCCAR on I-95 in North Carolina near the Va. border. The strength of the combination of two states.
North Carolina is also home to many small manufacturing companies, such as our company, Toner Machining Technologies, which designs and manufactures custom tooling, fixtures, gages, and machines for a wide variety of industries. With companies such as ourself, Carbon Motors will have the dedicated, high-tech supplier base needed to accomplish their goals. Feel free to check us out at www.tonermachining.com As far as educational "firepower" is concerned, I beleive that many states would struggle to compete with NC State, UNC, Duke, Wake Forest, UNC-Charlotte, Appalachian State, WCU, ECU and the many other local colleges that are turning out quality graduates. Thank you,
North Carolina is the capital of high performance automotive technolgy manufacturing. The Charlotte region is brimming with talent and the educational resources to keep Carbon Motors on the leading edge. Every spoke of success resides within the region. Every other state you are considering are great places but the Charlotte Region wraps everything together to assure business operating success. Edifice, Inc. provides design/build services to get you operating as quickly as possible, whether you choose an existing building or a greenfield site. We are ready!
Move out of the big cities. One word to cover Atlanta, Charlotte, Detroit, etc: TRAFFIC! Get outside of the trouble areas and allow the workforce to be unhindered in their daily commute. Consider and area around Asheville for instance. Not far from Charlotte, but it seems EVERYBODY wants to live there!
STATUS IN NORTH CAROLINA AS OF 28 Mar 2009: I had a chance to visit Charlotte 'undercover' and it certainly has potential. My team tells me the subsequent formal meetings went well and some of the potential locations are very promising. Unfortunately, we have not received a formal reply back from Governor Bev Perdue. As I have mentioned in the past, in order for this to work, the private sector must work hand-in-hand with the local community, state officials, and the federal government. Without the leadership of the governor that equation will not pencil.
Please consider this as only one person's personal perspective. However, I believe that you will find my experience to be a common one of "transplants" from the northeast and midwest to the Charlotte are. As a resident of Fort Mill, SC, and an employee of a company that moved from Charlotte to Fort Mill within the past year (just across the state border). After accepting an offer to relocate from Chicago, my wife & I then faced choosing where to live. We considered all the possibilities that the two areas present. The Fort Mill/Rock Hill corridor has all of the benefits of being 15-20 minutes from Charlotte-Douglas airport, 20 minutes to downtown Charlotte, access to Major League Football, minor league baseball, NBA basketball and all that a large city like Charlotte has to offer, including a diverse talent base, both blue & white collar. Fort Mill represented the positives, without the onerous taxes, crime & city school problems that Charlotte/Mecklenburg presents. Fort Mill scools are consistently ranked among the best in the area, and as a transplant from the Chicago suburbs, I cannot begin to enumerate the benefits that the climate, cost of living, reduced commute time and relative relaxed living style have made the transition from Chicago a tremendously positive one. From a business perspective, the Fort Mill area lies between 2 Free Trade Zones, one in lower Charlotte, and another near Columbia, SC (approximately 1 hour away), and the area has strong and established world-class IT infrastructure systems and supply chains that suppost design, service and manufacturing bases. All in all, the area has many benefits, and I hope that the SC RFP has clearly outlined these and that you will strongly consider the area for such an interesting and necessary business like Carbon Motors. Best Regards, Ryan Campbell
STATUS IN NORTH CAROLINA AS OF 03 May 2009: I have since spoken to both Secretary Crisco and Deputy Secretary Dale Carroll and we have agreed to spend some time this month further exploring the possibilities in Charlotte - which will take an extra-ordinary effort on both of our parts - all the other other US States are months ahead in the process. Looks like the Carbon E7 (aka "The Machine") may be making a stop in Charlotte on 20 May 2009. Stay tuned!
STATUS IN NORTH CAROLINA AS OF 03 May 2009: I have since spoken to both Secretary Crisco and Deputy Secretary Dale Carroll and we have agreed to spend some time this month further exploring the possibilities in Charlotte - which will take an extra-ordinary effort on both of our parts - all the other other US States are months ahead in the process. Looks like the Carbon E7 (aka "The Machine") may be making a stop in Charlotte on 20 May 2009. Stay tuned!
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