{"id":109025,"date":"2025-08-01T01:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T01:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/109025\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T01:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T01:40:13","slug":"nascar-icon-dale-earnhardts-widow-in-30billion-battle-with-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/109025\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR icon Dale Earnhardt\u2019s widow in $30billion battle with neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Teresa Earnhardt, widow of <a title=\"NASCAR\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/us\/tags\/nascar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASCAR<\/a> icon Dale Earnhardt, is at the center of a bitter $30billion land battle with her North Carolina neighbors.&#13;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\nThe 66-year-old Earnhardt has angered locals in Mooresville with plans to build a huge data center campus on 400 acres of land she owns in the area. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>READ MORE:<\/b> <a title=\"NASCAR enforces mandatory change for ALL Cup Series teams\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/us\/f1-news\/1057475\/nascar-announce-driver-disqualification-verdict\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASCAR enforces mandatory change for ALL Cup Series teams<\/a><a title=\"NASCAR\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/us\/tags\/nascar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASCAR<\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n<a title=\"The proposed new Mooresville Technology Park\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mooresvilletechnologypark.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The proposed new Mooresville Technology Park<\/a>, courtesy of Denver-based developer Tract, drew immediate opposition from residents wearing \u2018No Data Center\u2019 stickers at a public meeting.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nThose opponents have now even gone as far as <a title=\"setting up a website to rally support against the project\" href=\"https:\/\/nodatacentermooresvillenc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">setting up a website to rally support against the project<\/a>.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Two sides at odds over $30bn plan<\/p>\n<p>\nEarnhardt is requesting rezoning for the 400-acre plot (which is now mostly trees), to allow the project to go ahead.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nDevelopers claim the new industrial park would bring 277 \u201crecession-resistant\u201d jobs, including some 195 paying $125,000 a year. They also claim it would generate hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue for Mooresville, Iredell County and local public schools over 20 years.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nLocals meanwhile say they have multiple concerns, including noise and light pollution and the potential for falling property values in the area.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe battle will move closer to a conclusion next week (Monday August 4) when the Mooresville Board of Commissioners will consider approving a new public hearing date. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n<a title=\"Per the Charlotte Observer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nascar-auto-racing\/thatsracin\/article311518497.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Per the Charlotte Observer<\/a>, currently that public hearing date is September 15, with a final decision on the rezoning request likely to come the same evening.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>READ MORE:<\/b> <a title=\"NASCAR icon will not congratulate Bubba Wallace for Indy win\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/us\/f1-news\/1057336\/nascar-cup-series-bubba-wallace-richard-petty-brickyard-400-reaction-congratulation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASCAR icon will not congratulate Bubba Wallace for Indy win<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teresa Earnhardt, widow of NASCAR icon Dale Earnhardt, is at the center of a bitter $30billion land battle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[15188,1463,1461,1462,69530,18450,1406,50,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-109025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-dale-earnhardt","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-formula-1","11":"tag-gpfans","12":"tag-graham-shaw","13":"tag-mercedes","14":"tag-nascar","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114950964820479869","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}