June 30, 2017

Triangle Business Journal -

Kannapolis, a city once marred by the shuttering of textile mills, is set to become a leader of the emerging food manufacturing sector thanks to a $5 million budget provision and the research of the agricultural program at North Carolina State University.

The budget, approved Wednesday after the General Assembly overrode Gov. Roy Cooper's veto, provides $4.4 million to equip the Food Processing Innovation Center. The center will be housed at the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis, and will also receive $700,000 in recurring funds for leasing costs. N.C. State's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services are taking the helm in the creation of the center — set to open in 2018

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