Gov. Beverly Perdue said today that work will soon begin on a $56 million building in West Raleigh to house the National Guard, the Highway Patrol and the state Division of Emergency Management.
The project, which will be largely financed by federal stimulus money, would create up to 4,200 new jobs, Perdue said.
"This project is a big win for North Carolina," Perdue said in a statement. "It provides a state of the art facility that will better coordinate key state services and is ready to put people to work in much needed jobs."
Bidding on the project will begin next week and could start as early soon as early this summer. It could be finished in two years, Rob Christensen reports.
About $41.5 million in funding will become from the federal stimilus package. The remainder will come from general and highway trust funds that had been set aside for the project.
U.S. Rep. David Price, one of the House appropriation committee chairs, worked on helping getting funding on the project.
"Today's announcement comes at the end of a long and sometimes difficult process," Price said. "As the highest priority new construction project in the country for the National Guard, the Joint Force Headquarters is undisputedly deserving of this significant funding."
The new 237,000 square-foot facility will be located on an 18-acre site off of District Drive in Raleigh, near Wade Avenue.
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