County buying 23 acres for $960,000

The land, at the corner of N.C. 16 and N.C. 150, will be used for economic development, County Manager Mick Berry said at Monday’s Catawba County Board of Commissioners meeting.

There are no specific plans for the land except that it will be used to create jobs and economic growth in the area, Berry said. The county is in talks with developers on how the property could be used...

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