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It’s hard to remember a time when Pat Corso wasn’t trying to improve life and the local economy here in Moore County. Indeed, you’d have to go back more than 35 years, to when Bob Dedman Sr., then chairman of ClubCorp., had just made a fateful decision to buy the bankrupt, broken-down Pinehurst Resort and return it to glory. To do that, he hired Corso, then one of his young corporate executives, to lead that restoration. Corso hasn’t stopped building since. Sandhills Community College President John Dempsey is Corso’s longtime friend, golfing partner and Vito’s R...

Moore County has spent the better part of five years debating whether to raise the hotel occupancy room tax visitors pay, but the COVID-19 pandemic and its sweeping impact on local tourism has rekindled the tax discussion, this time with more urgency. “The key word is opportunity. It is an opportunity,” said Board of Commissioners Chairman Frank Quis, offering no promises or concessions in brief remarks during a meeting Thursday of the local Convention and Visitors Bureau. The “room tax”, as it’s better known, is currently set at 3 percent on a visitor’s hotel bi...

An exclusive look at where the semi-private airline, JSX, is expanding to next.

Pat Corso, Moore County’s lead economic development officer and executive director of Partners in Progress (PIP) since 2011, announced plans Tuesday to retire this spring. PIP is a two-person operation with a big mission. Its purpose is to increase economic prosperity and improve the quality of life for area residents through the creation of quality jobs and capital investment in our communities. Corso announced his pending retirement this May during a virtual meeting of the PIP board of directors on Tuesday morning. “We very much appreciate the effort you’ve put in over the ti...

“By the players ... for the players.”