From the N&O — of all places — comes this skeptical look at the $1.5 billion research campus being built in Kannapolis. Turns out not everyone is convinced the project will be transformative:
Jeanie Moore, vice president of continuing education programs for the local community college, said residents still call the research campus offices wanting to know where the new Pillowtex plant will be. The giant textile mill, known by different names over the years, defined Kannapolis for almost a century before it closed in 2003.
“It’s like if you travel a block away from the research campus, it doesn’t exist in the hearts and minds of the people,” Moore said.
And those people would be the same taxpayers being asked to help pay for the thing.
