RANDOLPH COUNTY, N.C. — As you've heard, Toyota is in the process of hiring more than 5,000 workers locally.
Just outside the Triad, Wolfspeed will hire almost 2,000 people.
Randolph Community College wants to capitalize with a new training site near the Toyota Battery Manufacturing Greensboro-Randolph Megasite.
$1.5 million, that's what Randolph Community College is asking for from Randolph County Commissioners, all to create a technical training site.
"The reason companies come, they are looking for workforce, trained workforce, and that's the core at every community college's mission," President of Randolph Community College, Dr. Shah Ardalan said.
The college is in the process of buying 22 acres of land off HWY 421, only 5 minutes away from Toyota's Battery Manufacturing Plant in Liberty.
This would be the colleges first and only facility located in Liberty. District 3 County Commissioner, David Allen said the people of Liberty are excited.
"It means we get a little attention, sometimes Liberty gets a little bit isolated from the rest of the county, just naturally by geography, because of HWY 421, so it's easier to get to Greensboro in a lot of instances than to get over to Asheboro," Allen said.
Dr. Ardalan said if commissioners approve the funding, it could take three years to be completed.
The goal is to help create a pipeline from the college to Toyota, so that students don't have to look elsewhere for work and can already be trained here locally.
"This county is investing in this. The return for the county and every tax dollars is going to educating the students," Ardalan said.
"We want to make sure that the folks, the home-folks in Randolph County have a place to work, that is you know, a good employer, that provides good benefits and preferably provides them a good quality of life, an opportunity for that," Allen said.
Keeping the local workforce here, while also giving back to the local economy.
Randolph County Commissioners are set to vote March 4th. Allen tells WFMY News 2's Nixon Norman, it's likely to pass.