Google moves to Lenoir, NC
March 15, 2007 · Filed Under Real Estate News
The New York Times has published an article highlighting Google’s announcement it will be opening a server farm in the much embattled area of Lenoir, North Carolina. Lenoir much like our own Southside (Danville, Martinsville) has seen a great slide in furniture manufacturing with companies closing their plants the past few years.
Google says it hopes laid-off furniture workers, most of whom never graduated from high school, will be among the 250 employees at two facilities on the 215-acre site, much of which was once a lumberyard.
The real estate market in Lenoir has already received a boost with properties long on the market now under contract as Google continues to build.
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The Google move is great news not just for Lenoir, but for the whole central piedmont area of NC. If Google finds success there, hopefully more companies like it will follow, and property values will benefit.