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Economic developers at the local and regional level do a lot of the unglamorous work to get sites ready – industrial parks, standalone properties, and empty buildings that could be rehabbed. This is known in the trade as “product,” and if your product lacks electricity, natural gas, water and sewer lines and road access, companies aren’t going to come. There’s no use talking about workforce or incentives if there’s no building site available and prepped to handle a new factory....

Sampson County has been awarded nearly $1.3 million from the North Carolina Department of Commerce’s Industrial Development Fund, the first IDF grant ever awarded to the county, local officials announced on Friday....