Burlington Reporter

Five Triad localities will benefit from the latest round of North Carolina Rural Infrastructure Authority grants.

Gov. Roy Cooper (D-NC) recently announced that nearly $3 million will be divvied up among 14 localities across the state to bring jobs and private investment to the respective areas.

“When we use these infrastructure grants to help rural North Carolina thrive, we improve our whole state’s economic competitiveness,” Cooper said, according to the North Carolina Department of Commerce. “We are strengthening local communities by making strategic investments in facilities and sites that will host good jobs.” 

The funding will be used to invest in the reuse and redevelopment of structures across the Triad.

This $2.9 million wave of grants adds on to the $42 million the state had doled out earlier in 2022. This round of funding will lead to the creation of almost 500 jobs, and the projects should bring in nearly $300 million in private investment.

There are several affected projects mentioned by the North Carolina Department of Commerce.

A sum of $500,000 will go through the city of Burlington to help Alamance Foods expand and improve a 220,000-square-foot building the company would use for manufacturing and cold storage. 

The city of Lexington will get $130,000 to expand the fermentation building occupied by Childress Winery.

The city of Thomasville will receive $155,000 to help A.M. Haire Manufacturing and Service Corp., which plans to expand its existing facility. It makes truck bodies for the dry freight industry.

And Randolph County will receive $100,000 to help Mid-State Trailers add 26,000 square feet to its plant in Denton.