Concord
Named an All-American in 2004, Concord is a city of approximately 60,000 people. It is a community family which prides itself on being a good place to live, work and play. Growth in this area is zooming about as fast as the cars that go around Lowe's Motor Speedway, one of Concord's largest attractions. The other is the new Concord Mills Mall, North Carolina's second-largest mall at 1.4 million square feet with some 200 stores. The city is now home to a regional airport, a historic downtown, Barber-Scotia college--and thousands of new homeowners who have found the homes of their dreams on what used to be farmland. On NASCAR Winston Cup race weekends or the Coca-Cola 600--when fans also are shopping at the mall--I-85 traffic can come to a standstill.

Location
They enjoy direct routes to Charlotte via U.S. Highway 29 and N.C. 49, and to Lake Norman via N.C. 73. Hopping onto Interstate 85, neighbors can travel to points beyond. (An estimated 16,000 people daily commute from Cabarrus to Mecklenburg County.)