$2 billion campus and other speed reads

🩺 Hendrick Automotive and local businessman Rick Hendrick have donated 23 acres to Central Piedmont Community College adjacent to the school's Levine Campus in Matthews. The college will use the property to build a new first responder training facility. (WFAE)

💉 Eli Lilly has opened its $2 billion manufacturing campus called The Grounds at Concord, a 2,000-acre industrial park at the former Philip Morris plant site. The campus will house the manufacturing, assembly and shipment of injectable medicines to fight obesity and diabetes. (CBJ 🔒)

🚨 June is the deadliest month on North Carolina waters, and the waterway with the most fatalities between 2012 and 2023 was Lake Norman. (Observer 🔒)