
{"id":13587,"date":"2010-11-04T08:23:49","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T16:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=13587"},"modified":"2010-11-04T08:40:18","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T16:40:18","slug":"good-news-for-%e2%80%98food-preneurs%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/11\/04\/good-news-for-%e2%80%98food-preneurs%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Good news for \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfood-preneurs\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Margot C. Lester, Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The pickles must be out of the jar,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d quipped Orange County Board of Commissioners Chair Valerie Foushee as she called to order the groundbreaking ceremony for the Piedmont Food &#038; Agricultural Processing Center in Hillsborough last Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The food-centric remark got a laugh from the crowd of almost 80 on hand at 500 Valley Forge Road, the site of what will be a $1.2-million, 10,400-square-foot commercial kitchen for farmers and food entrepreneurs, particularly those within a 75-mile, 22-county radius. The center will open in March to the delight of local food-preneurs. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We know that there are some food entrepreneurs who travel to Asheville to utilize the processing center at Asheville-Buncombe Tech, and we are continually taking phone\u00c2\u00a0 inquiries form new prospects,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Brad Broadwell, director of Orange County Economic Development. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In our initial feasibility study I believe there were over 40 respondents who said they would utilize this facility.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>A few of them were in the crowd, including Richard Holcomb, owner of Coon Rock Farm, and Zely &#038; Ritz restaurant. Hillsborough Mayor Tom Stevens was beaming. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re one of the\u00c2\u00a0 few counties with a growing number of farms, thriving farmers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 markets and restaurants using local items. This facility provides a missing link to an important sector of our local economy. What a delight to have it in the happening town of Hillsborough.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The pickles must be out of the jar,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d quipped Orange County Board of Commissioners Chair Valerie Foushee as she called to order the groundbreaking ceremony for the Piedmont Food &#038; Agricultural Processing Center in Hillsborough last Wednesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13614,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13587\/revisions\/13614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}