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March 18, 2010
Better Your Business Seminar
11:30 PM; Create Raving Fans with Your Customer Service
Lunch Provided
Center for Business and Industry, Room 111, FTCC
Call to Register

March 23, 2010
Chamber Open House
4:30 PM; New Chamber Office
1019 Hay Street

March 24, 2010
Ribbon Cutting
10:00 AM; Play Date
232 Westwood Shopping Center, Fayetteville

March 25, 2010
Business After Hours
5:30 PM; Holiday Inn Bordeaux
1707 Owen Drive, Fayetteville

March 30, 2010
MAC Command Performance Breakfast
7:30 AM; Crown Hospitality Ballroom
1960 Coliseum Drive





Cancellation Policy
Registrant must cancel 48 hours prior to event in order to receive refund or credit to account
.  Failure to cancel renders registrant responsible for payment.

 
   
Infrastructure

Energy

Public Works Commission
PUBLIC WORKS COMMISSION
The Public Works Commission (PWC) provides water, wastewater and electric utilities to industrial, commercial and residential customers with highest levels of reliability and service.

Progress Energy
PROGRESS ENERGY
Cumberland County is fortunate to be centrally located on the Progress Energy system, and the county is bisected with transmission lines, including 500 KV, 230 KV and 115 KV. Numerous substations provide distribution power in the county. Progress Energy’s peak demand of 11,000 MW through a combination of nuclear, coal, and natural gas fired generating plants throughout the states of North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida. The Progress Energy transmission system is interconnected with neighboring utilities at 33 locations. The owned generating capacity and transmission interconnects provide for an extremely high reliability of service for Progress Energy customers.

South River Electric Membership Corporation
SOUTH RIVER ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION
South River Electric Membership Corporation's comprehensive economic development program is a combination of networking, special commercial and industrial rates and special low-interest loans.

Our expansion and relocation team, together with our professional engineers and support staff, can custom design an energy management program for incoming organizations. We can also provide new industry with other important data to help them make the best choices for expansion and location.

In the past couple of years, South River EMC has been working overtime to improve the quality of life in our communities by working with several new and existing industries.

Since 1995, North Carolina's electric cooperatives have helped bring more than 14,600 jobs and $903 million of economic investment to the state.

We provide a wide array of support for businesses seeking to start, expand, or relocate to the Tar Heel State. These include:

    * assistance with site and building identification (also visit www.sitesacrossamerica.com)
    * energy audit services
    * assistance with market research
    * flexibility in rate design
    * power quality services
    * loan and grant assistance
    * demographic analysis

Lumbee River Electric Membership Corporation
LUMBEE RIVER ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION
Lumbee River EMC is a member-owned business, offering service to more than 40,000 customers in Cumberland, Robeson, Scotland and Hoke counties.

Water

Public Works Commission
PUBLIC WORKS COMMISSION
The Public Works Commission (PWC) provides water, wastewater and electric utilities to industrial, commercial and residential customers with highest levels of reliability and service.

Natural Gas

Piedmont Natural Gas
PIEDMONT NATURAL GAS
Piedmont Natural Gas is an energy services company primarily engaged in the distribution of natural gas to one million residential, commercial and industrial utility customers in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, including 62,000 customers served by municipalities who are wholesale customers.

Telecommunications

Embarq

EMBARQ
Embarq Corporation offers several communications services, consisting of local and long-distance voice and data services and high-speed  DSL Internet access to not only the local area but the surrounding counties as well. Embarq also offers wireless phone services through a partnership with Sprint Nextel.

Ports

NC Ports
NORTH CAROLINA STATE PORTS AUTHORITY
North Carolina's port cities are Wilmington and Morehead City plus inland terminals in Charlotte and in the Piedmont Triad at Greensboro. Fayetteville is located 89 miles from of the Port of Wilmington and 138 miles from the Port of Morehead City. North Carolina's ports offer improved cost-effectiveness, support services and their strategic location.
Port of Wilmington's port cities are Wilmington and Morehead City plus inland terminals in Charlotte, NC and in the Piedmont Triad at Greensboro, NC. Fayetteville is located 89 miles from the Port of Wilmington and 138 miles from the Port of Morehead City. North Carolina's ports offer improved cost-effectiveness, support service and their strategic location.






 
 
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