WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman G. K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) will make three stops in North Carolina’s First Congressional District on Tuesday, November 8.
Butterfield will join local and state officials at 10:00 a.m. to present a $2,002,088.00 grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration to Northampton Commerce Park. The funds are for the water and wastewater infrastructure improvements needed to serve the Northampton Commerce Park and the proposed Enviva wood pellet manufacturing operation. The project is expected to create 60 jobs and generate $60 million in private investment.
The Congressman will then have lunch at 12:30 p.m. with local elected officials, staff and students at the Kittrell Job Corps Center. The construction trade students will showcase the newly remodeled culinary arts underground café, which the students completed themselves.
Butterfield will finish his tour at Vance-Granville-Warren Small Business, Economy and Jobs Roundtable, where he will moderate a panel with U.S. Department of Labor officials on job creation and state employment trends.