Crown Event Center Project holds outreach event
Cumberland County will host a second outreach event for subcontractors, suppliers and vendors that are interested in participating in the Crown Event Center project.
TA Loving/Metcon, which is the Construction Manager at Risk for the project, will host an outreach event Thursday, Aug. 1, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the FSU HUB, located at 1073 Murchison Road, Fayetteville. The outreach event is intended to provide information related to bidding on the project.
The Cumberland County Board of Commissioners has approved a budget of $145 million and a building program of 134,000 square feet for the Crown Event Center, which will be located in Downtown Fayetteville in front of the Judge E. Maurice Braswell Cumberland County Courthouse. The approved construction budget for the project is $117,864,211.
The County anticipates breaking ground on the new Crown Event Center in September 2024 for demolition and early sitework with the majority of construction beginning in early 2025.
The new Crown Event Center is scheduled to open in early 2027.
For more information on the upcoming outreach event, contact Rusty Welch at 910-521-8013 or rwelch@taloving.com.
For more information on the Crown Event Center project, go to cumberlandcountync.gov/crowneventcenter.

Transloading company operations will remove the equivalent of 3,000 trucks per year from local roads
Strategic Transload Services, LLC has announced the opening of a new subsidiary in Cumberland County. STS of Fayetteville adds the corporation’s eighth location in the Southeast.
Through the CSX Rail line, the company will provide direct rail connectivity from ethanol plants in the Midwest to the fuel depot located off Murchison Road, which supplies the vast majority of Fayetteville.
“Supplying the terminal with direct rail will displace two hundred and fifty trucks per month coming into the Fayetteville market, making this a safe and more secure process for fuel transportation,” said Von Friesen, Principal, STS. “The Fayetteville Cumberland County Economic Development Corporation staff was extremely helpful with securing the right location for our expansion”.
The property where STS of Fayetteville will operate is part of an idle landfill.
“We were able to repurpose a piece of land, add a new customer to CSX’s Class 1 Rail network, and create a more economical channel for ethanol customers,” stated Rob Patton, Executive Vice President, of FCEDC.
“We are pleased to welcome STS of Fayetteville to our community,” said Kathryn Cox, FCEDC Board Chair. “Their cost-effective procedure is a great fit and will continue to strengthen the rail business”.
Read about this exciting announcement on their website at https://bit.ly/4dpChCH