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Friday, March 6, 2009

News Finally, some good news for the unemployed!

Posted By on Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:30 PM

And, you can thank NASCAR's recent layoffs...

The Charlotte region is on a short list for Carbon Motors Corp.’s planned 1,300-employee, $350 million headquarters, where the startup company plans to make a futuristic police cruiser.

Company executives were here this week to look at sites, says Jeff Edge, senior vice president of economic development for the Charlotte Chamber. “Part of our pitch is the fact that roughly 1,000 folks have been disengaged from the motorsports industry in the last year,” Edge says. Those workers have the engineering and assembly skills that could be utilized by Carbon Motors, he says.

Read the rest of this Charlotte Business Journal article here.

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