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Economic Slowdown a Stranger to Mocksville

MOCKSVILLE, NC-Activity continues to be brisk in this small but booming area (Pop. 4,000), 60 miles northeast of Downtown Charlotte and 20 miles south of Winston-Salem, NC. Growth, however, is beginning to outpace water and sewer capacity.

By David Wilkening | Updated on April 18, 2001

MOCKSVILLE, NC-The economic slowdown may have touched down in far larger Charlotte, 60 miles northeast of here, but there’s no letup of economic activity in this small but fast-growing area.

“We haven’t felt it here at all,” Terry Bralley, town manager of Mocksville and chairman of the Davie County Economic Development Council, tells Globest.Com. “There hasn’t been any slowdown at all in our area in the past 12 months.”

Mocksville has 4,000 residents and the entire county of Davie has only about 34,751 people, but the area has been growing so fast, residentially and commercially, that it has created fears of water and sewer shortages.

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