The state has approved a $5,000,000 grant for HCL America, a company that provides technology consulting and various other services, to create 513 new jobs. The jobs are to be created over 5 years and pay average wages of $47,000/ year.
“These are the kinds of job we want in [...]
Fayetteville Street, Raleigh ca 1910
Fayetteville Street, Raleigh ca 1977
Fayetteville Street, Raleigh today
The State of North Carolina created Raleigh in 1792 to be the capital city or North Carolina. Prior to the state choosing to build the capital city here, the area encompassing present-day Raleigh was known as Wake Crossroads. Wake Crossroads [...]
Regulators gave conditional approval for Duke University Hospital’s proposed expansion. According to the Duke University officials, the addition would add over 500,000 square feet and could create nearly 1,000 new jobs. Costs of the expansion are estimated at $596 million.
The hospital plans to break ground by fall 2008.
Read more here: State OKs $596M Duke hospital expansion in the Triangle [...]
Wake County has gained notoriety as one of the most desireable places to live and work in the United States according to recent surveys in national magazines.
Wake County’s population is expected to top 850,000 this year, within about 50,000 of the state’s most populous county, Mecklenburg. In just five years, Wake should reach 1 million people. Read Triangle growth cools, sizzle to simmer.
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I was a North Raleigh kid. I graduated from Millbrook High School in 1989 and I have seen a lot of changes in North Raleigh over the years. I recall when the 540 outer belt was little more than an adolescent dream Raleigh aspired to and Falls Lake was considered far from town. Another thing I [...]
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