Tag: Workforce Housing
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North Carolina Population Growth and Household Income: What the State’s Innovation Report Shows
North Carolina’s population grew 39.2% from 2000 to 2025, the 8th fastest rate in the country, and most of that growth is in a small number of metro counties. Median household income is 91% of the U.S. average and rising faster than it. We look at what the state’s 2026 innovation report shows, and where…
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1,885 Announced Jobs in Wilson County, and 411 Housing Permits
Johnson & Johnson will build a second manufacturing facility in Wilson County, adding up to 500 jobs to the 420 it committed in October 2024. That makes five large manufacturing announcements in the county since March 2024, 1,885 jobs between them. Wilson authorized 411 new private housing units by building permit last year, down from…
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Capital Group’s 600 Uptown Charlotte Jobs and the Workforce Housing Demand That Follows
Capital Group leased 196,940 square feet at One Independence Center in Uptown Charlotte, the largest office lease signed in the metro in the second quarter of 2026, for an East Coast hub of 600 jobs averaging $194,141. Twelve days later SMBC Group announced 2,000 more Charlotte jobs. The workforce housing and daily-needs retail demand that…
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How a Steel Plant Reshapes Hertford County’s Housing Demand
A corner of the state that rarely draws big private capital just landed a second major steel employer. US Forged Rings will build a specialty steel plant in Cofield, in rural Hertford County, pledging up to $875 million and 625 jobs, according to the North Carolina Governor’s office. Those jobs are the input. Workforce housing…
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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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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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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.…
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Lumentum to Add 400 Manufacturing Jobs at Its New Greensboro Plant
Lumentum Holdings (NASDAQ: LITE) will establish its largest U.S. manufacturing facility in Greensboro — a 240,000-square-foot indium-phosphide laser plant on Piedmont Triad Parkway. The retrofit is underway, production ramps mid-2028, and the project will preserve and create more than 400 advanced manufacturing jobs. Here’s why Lumentum’s announcement is another multi-year leg for Triad workforce-housing demand.