A company plans to open a manufacturing facility in Gastonia that will make precast concrete products and reinforced concrete pipe, creating 125 new jobs over three years.

Fit Precast plans to invest $104 million by Dec. 31, 2026, according to state documents. The facility will be located near Forbes Road and U.S. 321 and will be annexed into Gastonia once it is built, said Donny Hicks, executive director of the Gaston County Economic Development Commission.

"I'm real excited about it, because what we've seen over the last couple years is that (U.S.) 321 corridor had aged, and you didn't have the same vibrancy down there that it had say when it was started in the '60s and '70s," Hicks said. "And now, over the last couple years, you see buildings that are selling for essentially three tim

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