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Auto parts maker Holley picks to bring East Coast HQ here

MOORESVILLE, N.C. — An automotive parts manufacturer is headed to Mooresville Business Park East to occupy a speculative building that was announced earlier this year.

Bowling Green, Kentucky-based Holley said today it would establish an East Coast headquarters in Mooresville. The Mooresville Board of Commissioners approved incentives for the project yesterday.

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At the commissioners’ meeting, a presentation stated the project calls for $12.3 million in investment and that Holley would bring 80 existing employees to the operation. It would also add 40 new jobs at an average wage of $40,000, said Jenn Bosser, president and CEO of Iredell Economic Development Corp., at the meeting.

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