High Point council approves $300,000 incentive for Project Ticket, clears street-abandonment requests and reinstates board members
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Summary
Council approved a $300,000 performance-based incentive for Project Ticket (Paragon/Electronic Data Magnetics) tied to a proposed $30 million expansion and 99 new jobs, set/approved two street abandonment items (including a 2,100-foot abandonment tied to landfill capacity), and reinstated three board members.
The High Point City Council voted to approve several agenda items after brief staff presentations and public hearings at its regular meeting.
Economic incentive for Project Ticket: Brantley Craft told council the company (Paragon, parent of an existing High Point firm) is proposing a $30,000,000 expansion in machinery and equipment, about $900,000 in building upfit, and would bring 99 new jobs with an average wage of $62,250. Craft said staff recommended a performance-based incentive of $300,000 over three years and asked that city officials be authorized to execute necessary documents. The county had approved incentives on Dec. 4, and no members of the public spoke at the hearing. Council moved and approved the staff recommendation.
Street-abandonment items: Council set a public hearing date of Feb. 16, 2026, on street abandonment case 25Dash02 (an unimproved 64-foot right of way east of Cashat Road adjacent to Guilford County parcel 158475), approving the resolution of intent to establish that hearing date. On street abandonment case 25Dash01, Herb Shannon, senior planner, summarized a City Public Service Department application to abandon roughly 2,100 feet of Kersey/Coursey Valley Road that bisects the municipal landfill so the two waste-storage cells could be combined to add about 19 acres of capacity; staff noted the reroute of the road opened earlier in the year and Planning & Zoning recommended approval. No one spoke at the public hearing and the council approved the abandonment.
Board reinstatements: Council reinstated Board of Adjustment member Noe Buie as a voting member; staff said reinstatement followed the removal of the attendance-related suspension and does not change the member's term, which is a three-year term. The council also voted separately to reinstate Planning & Zoning members Steve Galanti and Mark Walsh as voting members.
Votes and next steps: All motions reported in the transcript passed with the mayor calling for 'ayes' and affirmations recorded as "the ayes have it." Individual roll-call tallies were not recorded in the transcript. For the Project Ticket incentive, staff remains prepared to finalize documents; staff indicated the company is seeking a decision "by the end of the year." The street-abandonment case 25Dash02 now has a public hearing scheduled for Feb. 16, 2026.
Council adjourned after announcements and seasonal remarks.
