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73 new jobs possible City mulls two potential employers for incentives BY PAUL B. JOHNSON ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
HIGH POINT – The city of High Point is considering incentives for a pair of employers that could create at least 73 new jobs, add more than $3.7 million to the tax base and fill two vacant commercial buildings. An innovative furnishings product and design company, The Phillips Collection, is considering a relocation from E. Kivett Drive to the for-
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The High Point City Council will consider authorizing incentives for a pair of companies at back-to-back public hearings at 9 a.m. Thursday at City Hall, 211 S. Hamilton St. Council members will consider authorizing up to $100,000 in incentives to The Phillips Collection to establish a business incubator and for the relocation and expansion of the company to the former Rose Furniture retail building in south High Point. mer Rose Furniture retail building on Finch Avenue off of Surrett Drive at Interstate 85 Business Loop. Phillips, which relocated to High Point from New York nine years ago, not only would move its
The council also will consider authorizing up to $94,500 in incentives for a still-unnamed company to locate in north High Point. The Guilford County Board of Commissioners will consider authorizing up to $89,500 in additional incentives for the still-unnamed company. The commissioners’ public hearing will be 5:30 p.m. Sept. 16 in the commissioners’ meeting room on the second floor of the Old County Courthouse, 301 W. Market St., Greensboro.
showroom, office and distribution center to the former Rose retail building, but would establish a business incubator for start-up companies, according to the High Point Economic
Development Corp. High Point City Council will consider up to $100,000 in incentives for Phillips and its incubator Thursday. The other project is for a still-unnamed company
Archdale seeks grant. 1B that would fill a building on National Center Drive in northernmost High Point. The company, referred to by the EDC as Eagle II, would establish its U.S. divisional headquarters and light manufacturing operations. If the company picks High Point, it would create 68 jobs and add $3.5 million to the tax base, said EDC President Loren Hill. The City Council also on Thursday will consider authorizing up to $94,500 in incentives for
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Donna Brown Daniel Idol, 78 Helen Johnson, 82 Johnny Kennedy, 57 Barbara Marsh, 49 Linda Tate, 63 Theodore Williams, 61 Obituaries, 2B
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Staci Berry, pharmacist at McLarty Drug, reaches for a bottle to fill a prescription. placed behind the fountain. “We are offering all the services we previously offered, focusing on our free delivery to High Point
and the surrounding area. All in all, we are hoping this site offers us the tools we need to offer a better customer experience,
with easier access and room to meet their prescription and home health care needs,” Beavers said.
Housing Authority zeroes in on pick for top job HIGH POINT – High Point Housing Authority leaders have set their sights on who they want to fill the agency’s top job. The housing authority’s Board of Commissioners’ Personnel Committee has picked a chief executive officer candidate from the four prospects who were interviewed. The committee will forward its recommendation to the full board, which won’t consider taking action to make an official offer until next week at the earliest. “We’ve made a recommendation, but we haven’t worked out any terms and nothing has been signed,” said board Chairman Bob Davis. “The board still has to vote
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STAYING IN SCHOOL: County ranks high nationally in black male graduation rate. 1B
Downtown drug store has new home
BY PAT KIMBROUGH ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
Dr. Gopal Badlani, professor of urology and the department’s vice chairman for clinical affairs at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, was named the 2010-11 secretaryelect of the American Urological Association.
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MCLARTY MOVES HIGH POINT – An institution in downtown High Point has a new home, not much farther from its former location where McLarty Drug Co. did business for more than 50 years. McLarty recently relocated from its longtime Church Avenue location to the shopping center at Main Street and Sunset Drive near Montlieu Avenue. The family-owned, local pharmacy has served High Pointers since 1938, and had been on Church Avenue since 1956. McLarty moved to 819 N. Main St. in the Main Street Square Center to enlarge the space of the store, said co-proprietor Brad Beavers. “The move was meant to give us much-needed space to show our full line of products, as well as to provide easier access for our customers. The site is much more visible than our previous location, and we have received a lot of positive feedback,” Beavers said. The new location will feature the quaint touches of McLarty’s former home. The business relocated its original soda fountain from the old store, complete with marble counters and antique fixtures that are
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‘We’ve made a recommendation, but we haven’t worked out any terms and nothing has been signed.’ Bob Davis Chairman, High Point Housing Authority on it in open session. Until that’s done, I wouldn’t want to (name the candidate). It would probably hurt who we’re tying to deal with.” The new CEO will take over for Robert L. Kenner, who resigned in
May after seven years on the job. The authority received about 30 applications for the job, and the committee narrowed the field to six. The commissioners were given opportunities to rank them. The four finalists were drawn from that list and interviewed by the board. Davis said the heaviest concentration of candidates was from South Carolina, Georgia and other parts of the Southeast. The search has been national in scope and handled by the authority without the use of an outside firm to “save us some money,” Davis said. “We had some good candidates, had good responses,” Davis said. “We had responses from as far away as Los Angeles.” Kenner’s replacement will take over an agency with an $18.1 million
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budget and around 70 employees that administers about 2,680 public housing units and rental assistance contracts throughout the city. One of his successor’s first orders of business will be guiding the Clara Cox Homes redevelopment project to completion. Last month, the authority secured financing for the project. Work has started on the site, which is across from the authority’s offices on E. Russell Avenue. A groundbreaking ceremony is planned for later this month for the mixed-income community, which will be located on the site of a former housing project and is seen as a key in the planned revitalization of the area, which is near the Macedonia neighborhood. pkimbrough@hpe.com | 888-3531
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