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Article: Working together will boost the east: roads, broadband Internet and other infrastructure would help. So would getting the state to see beyond the Triangle.(EASTERN ROUND TABLE)
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- Business North Carolina
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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Eastern North Carolina must promote itself better--not only around the world but inside the state. But it will take a regional effort to tout far-flung assets such as the North Carolina Global TransPark in Kinston and the state ports in Wilmington and Morehead City. That was one of many opinions expressed during a round table on the region's economy sponsored by Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog LLP, a Raleigh-based law firm. Participants were Frank J. Albetta, a partner in the firm's Wilmington office; John D. Chaffee, CEO of North Carolina's Eastern Region, an economic-development agency that represents 13 counties; Phil Hodges, president of Metrics Inc., a drug researcher in ...