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CONCORD, N.C. — New lanes on Interstate 85 have made it easier to get to exit 49, the main access point for Concord Mills and the Charlotte Motor Speedway.

But once you get off the exit and onto Concord Mills Boulevard, traffic is a different story.

Exit 49 is the busiest in the state, averaging more than 40,000 cars a day.

U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson said businesses along the stretch generate nearly $1 billion to the state's economy and he doesn't want that to be stifled.

CONCORD, N.C. -- The Silverman Group broke ground Thursday on the construction of two new speculative buildings, adding to the inventory of large vacant commercial buildings the area has to market to potential employers.

“We need more facilities like we have here today, like we have starting here today,” said Patrick Coughlin, president and CEO of the Cabarrus Economic Development Corporation and Cabarrus Regional Chamber of Commerce. “You guys have opened up the floodgates.”

MONROE — Congressman Richard Hudson, R-8, visited Union Academy on Wednesday to tour the facility and talk to students, faculty and staff.

Hudson is a member of the Education and the Workforce committee and sits on the Workforce Protections and High Education and Workforce Training subcommittees.

CONCORD -- Exit 49 stakeholders continued their push for road and infrastructure improvements Monday, meeting with a U.S. congressman and warning that traffic gridlock could choke off the area’s economic success.

House Republicans demonstrated on Thursday their support for restoring funding to a U.S. military that could shrink to its lowest size in decades as global threats rise.