Asheville Regional Airport gets $2.5 million for airfield construction
Asheville Citizen Times | 02.23.2026 The Asheville Regional Airport received substantial new funding for infrastructure when U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards presented a $2.5 million check during a Feb. 20 visit, according to his office. The airport plans to use the money to build a new taxiway, which planes use to move between runways, hangars and other…
Tax on tourists paying for police reaches state court
Center Square | 02.18.2026 Currituck County in northeastern North Carolina says a 2004 amendment contains language that allows the county commissioners to use their judgment in deciding what uses of the tax on tourist’s lodging and property taxes are related to tourism. Whether the commission can use that revenue to pay for police officers is…
Omni breaks ground on $360M Downtown Raleigh hotel with 600 rooms
Triangle Business Journal | 02.13.2026 Fencing is up and site work has begun on the upcoming Omni Hotel in Downtown Raleigh. Omni Hotels & Resorts of Dallas will officially break ground this month on its 600-room, 29-story hotel and is targeting opening toward the end of 2028. The site at 10 W. South St. (formerly parking lots)…
Here are the projects up for Wake County tourism money. Which would you pick?
News & Observer | 02.09.2026 Ballet studios. Cricket field renovations. Moving a 52-foot northern right whale skeleton called Stumpy. A record 20 nonprofits, businesses and towns pitched 22 projects they believe will fill hotel beds and draw visitors in hopes of receiving a portion of $23.5 million in tourism money from Wake County and Raleigh.…
NC’s private road and bridge repair program can only pay for about 10% of the projects
WFDD | 02.09.2026 North Carolina only has enough money to repair around 300 of the thousands of private roads and bridges damaged by Hurricane Helene, state officials said at a Monday meeting for the Governor’s Recovery Office of Western North Carolina. The state launched the $175 million program last year as a way to reconnect…
Wake County pursues $11 billion jobs pipeline
Triangle Business Journal | 02.04.2026 For Michael Haley, executive director of Wake County Economic Development, 2026 started with a bang: an announcement from Swiss biotech firm Genentech that it would double its investment in the region by pouring $2 billion into its manufacturing operations in Holly Springs. Haley is confident that more economic wins are ahead this year…
Busy year at CLT despite decrease in traffic
Business NC | 01.28.2026 If trips last year via Charlotte Douglas International Airport seemed busy, there’s a reason. The airport reported Wednesday it served 53.6 million passengers in 2025, the second-busiest year in CLT history. Total passengers decreased 0.37% from the record 53.8 million passengers in 2024, but increased 0.2% from the 53.5 million passengers in…
Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority sets new record with $1.2B economic impact
Charlotte Business Journal | 12.10.2025 For the second consecutive year, the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority set records for revenue and tourism-related spending in fiscal 2025, according to annual figures disclosed this morning at the organization’s monthly board meeting. Between July 2024 and June 2025, spending from events recruited and booked by the visitors authority and related operations…
NCDOT will spend $5 billion on Helene. Most of that money will go to 8 projects.
News & Observer | 12.08.2025 The N.C. Department of Transportation expects to spend close to $5 billion repairing and rebuilding roads and bridges damaged by the remnants of Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina. More than two-thirds of that money, about $3.2 billion, will be spent on eight rebuilding projects, according to estimates released last…