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Roush Racing World Headquarters Development Concord, Cabarrus County Roush Racing plans on relocating its world headquarters to Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina. Roush has purchased one hundred and five acres on Highway 29, South of Roberta Church Road. The headquarters will house our existing race teams, manufacturing center, product distribution, show car programs, merchandising operations, marketing and licensing units and museum. Additional facilities will be constructed for tenants within the industry, to make this site the pinnacle of racing in North Carolina. It is our intent to construct a total of fourteen facilities. The facilities to be constructed are: Phase I Seven, forty thousand square foot race shops; Two, thirty thousand square foot warehouse/storage buildings; One, forty thousand square foot manufacturing facility and one, twenty thousand square foot multi-tenant facility. Phas~ II One, one hundred and fifty thousand square foot museum. Phase III Two, four story, eighty thousand square foot office buildings. All of the facilities constructed will be within the same aesthetic theme utilizing, masonry, glass and standing seam metal roof, presenting a unified corporate park image, Of the one hundred and five acres, thirty-five acres are heavily wooded and will remain so, supplemented by additional plantings along the frontage of Highway 29 and the site interior. Access to the offices and race shops wilt be via a central boulevard off Highway 29 for the employees and public. Access to the rear of the shops for the car haulers will be via an access loop road. This loop road can also be utilized for shakedown work prior to a race. Roush Racing currently employs two hundred and forty persons. Approximately two hundred of those individuals are currently residents of the Greater Metropolitan Charlotte area. New employment opportunities will be filled by local applicants when possible.