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It has been quite a year for Moore County's neighbor to our south down in Richmond County, NC. First, in the spring, the roar of racing returned to the historic Rockingham Speedway as The Rock welcomed back NASCAR to the famed one-mile oval. Then, in the summer, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the largest business deal in North Carolina history with a $10 billion plan to build a data center campus near Rockingham.In this episode of Paradise in the Pines, economic developer for Richmond County, Martie Butler, talks about those two major news stories and the impact they will have on the Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Aberdeen area.
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It has been quite a year for Moore County's neighbor to our south down in Richmond County, NC. First, in the spring, the roar of racing returned to the historic Rockingham Speedway as The Rock welcomed back NASCAR to the famed one-mile oval. Then, in the summer, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the largest business deal in North Carolina history with a $10 billion plan to build a data center campus near Rockingham.In this episode of Paradise in the Pines, economic developer for Richmond County, Martie Butler, talks about those two major news stories and the impact they will have on the Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Aberdeen area.