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What North Carolina’s #2 Business Ranking Tells Apartment Investors, by the Numbers
North Carolina ranks #2 for business and #1 for economy, but #35 for cost of living, down from #23. Record in-migration and a 764,000-unit housing gap build the case for apartment investment in North Carolina.
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$2 Billion, 2,000 Jobs: What Genentech’s Holly Springs Expansion Means for Triangle Real Estate
Genentech raised its Holly Springs manufacturing commitment from $700 million to approximately $2 billion eight months after the original announcement, with construction already underway. The facility, Genentech’s first East Coast plant, will support 500+ high-wage manufacturing jobs at an average salary of $119,833 and 1,500 construction positions. Here is what a $2 billion biomanufacturing anchor…
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What It Means for Real Estate When NC Builds the Glass That Powers AI
The AI buildout runs on glass fiber, and North Carolina makes most of America’s supply. In May, NVIDIA committed up to $3.2 billion to expand Corning’s U.S. manufacturing, part of a wave of advanced-manufacturing investment landing in Catawba County’s fiber corridor. The data centers grab the headlines, but the durable real-estate story is the workforce…
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Amazon and Corning Bring 1,000 Manufacturing Jobs to North Carolina
Amazon and Corning have struck a multibillion-dollar agreement to make the fiber-optic cable that runs Amazon’s data centers — and it’s adding 1,000 advanced manufacturing jobs at Corning’s North Carolina plants, most of them around Hickory. For real estate investors, the story isn’t the cable. It’s where 1,000 new workers will live, and what steady…
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Siemens Adds 350 Jobs in Raleigh and Wendell to Power AI Data Centers
Siemens is investing more than $165 million across the Carolinas to manufacture the electrical hardware behind AI — and 350 of the new jobs land in Wake County, split between Raleigh and the fast-growing town of Wendell. The headline is the jobs. The part worth watching for real estate investors is what durable, high-skill payroll…
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Morinaga’s $136M Mebane Plant and What 204 Manufacturing Jobs Mean for Orange County
Morinaga, the Japanese maker of HI-CHEW candy, has opened its second factory in Mebane, a $136 million investment creating 204 jobs in Orange County and roughly doubling its U.S. production capacity. The plant goes fully operational by October 2026. For real estate investors, the story isn’t the candy, it’s what a second decade of steady…
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How flyExclusive’s Raleigh Move Adds to NC’s Demand Stack
flyExclusive (NYSE: FLYX), a top-five U.S. private jet operator headquartered in Kinston, is growing its Raleigh corporate office to ~125 employees at One North Hills Tower by June 2026. The 95-job add isn’t a headline factory announcement, but it’s the kind of quiet move that strengthens the demand environment around the Triangle markets where NCCG…
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One Year Later: Ralliant’s North Hills HQ Is Open, and the Triangle Thesis Is Holding
Ralliant (NYSE: RAL) cut the ribbon on its global headquarters in Raleigh’s North Hills on March 5, 2026, with 150 of the 180 promised jobs already filled. The $2 billion precision-technology company chose Raleigh over Beaverton, Oregon a year ago. With 83% of the announced positions in place, the Triangle thesis is moving from forecast…
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North Carolina’s Corporate Tax Just Dropped to 2%
On January 1, 2026, North Carolina’s corporate income tax dropped from 2.25% to 2.0% — the next step in a statutory phase-out scheduled to reach 0% by 2030. The rate is real. The path is contested. Here’s why the recruiting machine the rate keeps feeding matters more for NC housing and retail demand than the…
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11.7 Million by 2030: What NC’s Population Curve Means for Real Estate Investors
North Carolina is on track to surpass Georgia and Ohio and become the 7th-largest state in the country by the early 2030s. The state added 146,000 residents in the past year alone — third-largest gain nationally — and is the only state in the country ranking top-three by both raw population added and percentage growth.…