The downside would be that folks just aren't used to thinking that way.

Sandy will bring an unparalleled level of professionalism to the High Point EDC.

In March, I visited the (World Wide Technology) facility in Austin (Texas) during our Piedmont Triad Partnership mission to call on Dell suppliers. Their operations are impressive. As we learned there, WWT warehouses products from more than 50 other suppliers to get those items to Dell as needed.

Dell has been positively impacting the High Point and Piedmont Triad economy ever since the site was announced last December,

It is an honor to win again this award for our annual report, which is our prime marketing piece. We are pleased that the judges agreed with us that the report does an excellent job in highlighting the many recent economic development successes of High Point.

It's one thing to buy existing buildings with existing showroom space, ... It's another to go through the expense of buying a building and converting it into new showroom space.