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Developing a green industrial park is a worthwhile project for Camden County, but not something the county can pull off on its own, according to the results of a feasibility study conducted by teams from the UNC Institute for the Environment, UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School and the UNC School of Government.

The details of the study will be announced at a public meeting Thursday (Aug. 28) in Camden. The study was funded by the Golden LEAF Foundation and has been bolstered by interest from Marc Basnight, President Pro Tempore of the N.C. Senate.  The results will be presented at 5:30 p.m. at the Camden Middle School, 248 Scotland Road. The presentation will elaborate on opportunities for development of an industrial park and will include an economic scan of the county, a model to predict costs, and concept images of the proposed facility.

 

“It’s going to require substantial financial assistance from the state and other sources to make this work,” said David Salvesen, deputy director of the Institute for the Environment’s Center for Sustainable Community Design and principal investigator for the project. Specifically, the county would need outside investment in infrastructure – water and sewer as well as green technologies – to attract firms to the green industrial park. 

 

A green park would include sustainably designed buildings that reduce material and energy use in a way that would prove financially attractive to companies and use infrastructure design and support services such as water capture and re-use and recycling programs to reduce the environmental impact of the site as a whole.

 

Center for Sustainable Community Design contact: David Salvesen, (919) 962-7045, salvesen@unc.edu 

Institute for the Environment contact: Danielle Del Sol, (919) 962-0965, delsol@email.unc.edu

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