News & Events

Golden LEAF awards $8 million in funding to support projects in 16 counties

December 08, 2022

Sampson County received $265,112 from Golden Leaf's Site Development Program for site prepping for a [future] 60,000 SF industrial building off Armory Rd. in Sampson Southeast Business Center, Clinton's industrial park. ...

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One year on: Garland factory alive

October 22, 2022

In 2020, the Garland Shirt Company shuttered, leaving a void in the town and hundreds of residents without work, dimming a longstanding manufacturing behemoth. The next year, Garland Apparel Group stepped in and acquired the former site of Brooks Brothers, officially reopening the doors in October 2021. A year on, the factory shines like the beacon it once was....

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County eyes acquisition of I-40 property

April 12, 2022

NEWTON GROVE — Moves to acquire a large mass of land off Interstate 40 in the Newton Grove area were approved during the recent Sampson County Board of Commissioners meeting....

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Montauk Ag Renewables Eyes Turkey

December 21, 2021

Montauk Ag Renewables, LLC, a subsidiary of publicly-traded Montauk Renewables, Inc., has chosen to open a facility in the county, the Sampson County Economic Development Commission and county officials announced this week....

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Sampson gets state grant to aid demolition

November 03, 2021

Sampson County has been awarded a $22,098 demolition grant from NC Commerce which will aid in further prepping a large plot of land purchased by the county last year for industrial development....

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