For all of us at AnsonEDP, the ongoing and ever-changing pandemic has played a significant role in the past 12 months, and likely will in the coming year as well. 2021 was a year of both concern and determination. While we have learned to adjust and change, one thing has remained constant: our commitment to improving the quality of life for the residents of Anson County. So much has happened at AnsonEDP since last December that it would be impossible to recap it all in one email—so let me focus on three major things I believe will have a lasting impact on the Anson Economy: Product Development: When Big Toys Direct acquired the former Walmart building in July, we celebrated a major win for the community, but we also lost our last marketable industrial building of more than 25,000 square feet. In fact, the day that deal closed, our active projects list decreased by nearly half because those projects were also considering that building. In today's world, a community without a viable