Pineville's Planned Growth: WCCB TV

Interview with Pineville NC Chamber President John Holobinko

July 17, 2024  Gary Brode – Video excerpts

PINEVILLE, NC — Pineville grew at a 6.4% rate in the last three years. “Pineville’s one of the last remaining areas within Mecklenburg County that has the room for growth,” said John Holobinko.

A town of just over 11,000 with a median age five years younger that the national average. “I don’t know if we’re trying to go younger, but it’s the way it’s evolving,” Holobinko explained. Part of that evolution is the rising number of family owned businesses. There are more than 1,000 businesses in Pineville both small and large. “Over 60% of the tax revenue is from businesses as opposed to residential, which is the opposite of most towns in this area,” Holobinko said.

Holobinko, the president of the Pineville Chamber of Commerce, embraces the town being a bedroom community. With Projects like the Miller Farm development, that’s beginning to change. Of course, more people, means more traffic.

The two main roads that run through, uh, through Pineville are not under the control of the town of Pineville at all. So that’s a challenge that the traffic issues associated with that clearly are,” Holobinko told WCCB’s Gary Brode.

Holobinko says there is a plan to divert traffic in the center of town to make it more accessible and walkable. That’s part of a larger project to move the post office and fire department currently located a street over from Main Street. That would turn another street downtown into a combination of condominiums, rentals and shops.

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