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ACTION ALERT: WHAT TAX MODERNIZATION ISSUES DO YOU THINK WILL IMPACT YOUR BUSINESSES? PROVIDE YOUR FEEDBACK NOW As part of our renewed emphasis on advocating for your bussinesses, the Fayetteville Regional Chamber in conjunction with the North Carolina Chamber is studying tax reform and the impacts on your businesses. North Carolina is one state, among several, looking at ways to make its tax ...read more

Your Fayetteville Regional Chamber is excited to announce a great new way for us to connect with you, our members. In partnership with CityView Magazine, we'll be launching "Engage" magazine in April. Engage will serve as a quarterly print newsletter magazine. You'll get lots of great Chamber information, as well as business tips, photos from our events and much, much more! Best ...read more

One of the most important missions of your Fayetteville Regional Chamber is to support and promote local businesses through our advocacy programs. The Chamber fulfills that mission in a variety of ways, including political representation, business-to-business networking, marketing and a variety of others. But the Chamber is about to embark on one of its most important missions. With America still ...read more

By Doug Peters President & CEO I've had a slew of people approach me recently and thank me for the Chamber's visible return to the public policy arena. I've told each that no thanks are necessary - that serving proudly as the voice of business is a fundamental responsibility of any Chamber that's worth its salt. But it has made me think a bit about why we do what we do, and ...read more

The Fayetteville Regional Chamber announced today the creation of Connect!, an orientation program providing the region's incoming executives, medical professionals and military leadership with an interactive overview of the Fayetteville region. The program will serve as part of the Chamber's current Leadership Fayetteville program, which features a nine-month full community immersion ...read more

The Fayetteville Regional Chamber would like to congratulate all of our wonderful members who were named to the 2012 Fayetteville Observer Reader's Choice Awards . The following is a list of those winners. Make sure to check out the entire Reader's Choice package here , and visit all of our member's Chamber pages as well! Luigi's - Dinner, Italian, Steaks, Out of town guests, ...read more

"Leadership is influence. Leadership is making things happen. Leadership is about influencing people toward accomplishing an objective or task. Good leadership means the followers 'want' to do what the leader wants them to do. Leadership is inspiring people to do more than they think they can. True leadership encapsulates all that is good about leadership. True leadership glorifies ...read more

The North Carolina Department of Transportation has ordered a new economic analysis of the Interstate 95 tolls project, according to The Fayetteville Observer. The Observer reported that NC Transportation Secretary Gene Conti spoke to their editorial board Tuesday. The state had approved tolling of Interstate 95 based on an earlier study, but many elected officials and business groups felt the ...read more

Click here to see this year's State of our Chamber presentation. A renewed focus and some improvements in brand identity were the core of the message presented Tuesday at the Fayetteville Regional Chamber's "State of Our Chamber" luncheon. The event, held at the Embassy Suites Fayetteville/Fort Bragg, marked the launching of two key changes for the Chamber. First up was the ...read more

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Chamber of Commerce Endorses City of Fayetteville's Parks Bond Fayetteville, NC – The Fayetteville-Cumberland County Chamber of Commerce has announced its unilateral support for the City of Fayetteville's Parks Bond levy. The endorsement came through the Chamber's Government Affairs Committee adopting its Critical Few Objections for the spring. The Board ...read more

CHAMBER ANNOUNCES COMPLETION OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY REPORT The Fayetteville-Cumberland County Chamber of Commerce announced today the completing of an economic development strategy for Cumberland County. The report and strategy, completed by Garner Economics LLC of Atlanta, GA should be vital in helping Cumberland County gain a competitive advantage in business development and economic ...read more

"It ain't real until there's steel." Reality has set in for Michael Nagowski, the CEO of the Cape Fear Valley Medical System. That reality sits in a campus going up on the border of Hoke and Cumberland counties. It sits off Ramsey Street in the development of the Health Pavilion North. And it sits in a number of other different growth areas for the hospital as well. Nagowski ...read more