Incentives Spark Jobs in Henderson County Industry
Henderson County approves 107,000 and 187,669 incentive payments for Mountain Home juice bottling and AGI Shorewood East Flat Rock packaging. The Shorewood expansion adds 50 jobs with $8.6 million investment, while Mountain Home gains 15 new positions. The editorial asserts incentives drive $270 million in investment and 1,007 jobs over five years, while stressing cautious, contract‑driven use and competition from other regions.
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Mountain Home
AGI Shorewood
East Flat Rock
Clement Pappas
Graham Packaging
Shorewood
Elka Met
Hendersonville
Mills River
Fletcher
Hendersonville Lightning
Indianapolis
Henderson County
Mexico
Philippines
China
Partnership For Economic Development
Henderson County Board of Commissioners
A Long Winter View On Asheville's Mountain Home
A reader recalls moving to Hendersonville near Asheville thirty two years ago for a corporate posting with Daniels Packaging. They swapped Northern Wisconsin for a sunlit 50 degree January, built a life, started a family, and chose to stay in a warm Southern Appalachian community rather than return north.
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Renaissance Inn
Plaza
Asheville
Wisconsin
Arctic
Hendersonville
North Carolina
Daniels Packaging
Tion
Dutch Inn
US 25 North
North Woods
Hendersonville natives Swanner and Lanning join UCBI mortgage team
United Community Banks adds Carolyn Swanner and Gwenn Lanning to its Hendersonville mortgage unit. Both boast over 50 years of local banking and lending combined, with Swanner starting at Home Bank in 1971 and Lanning nine years as a Mountain 1st Bank mortgage banker.
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United Community Banks, Inc
UCBI
Carolyn Swanner
Gwenn Lanning
Hendersonville
Swanners
Home Bank
NCNB
Bank of America
Mountain 1S Bank and Trust
Lanning
United Community Bank
Mountain 1St Bank and Trust
Mountain Bank
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Hendersonvillelightning.com
Bill Moss
Midwest
Blue Ridge
Smokies
Southern
Appalachians
Bill Humleker
Swanner, Lanning
Mortage