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ing would be much closer to Hay Street.
e existing Museum of the Cape Fear
would be razed and its site would be-
come parking. Visitors would use the
pedestrian walkway – which would
be covered – across the Martin Luther
King Jr. Freeway.
Former Governors James G. Hunt
Jr. and James G. Martin, the honorary
co-chairs of the history center's board
of advisors, will be at the ground-
breaking, along with board chairman
James R. Leutze, the former chancellor
of the University of North Carolina at
Wilmington.
Other notables are expected to par-
ticipate, including Rev. Aaron Johnson,
who was Gov. Martin's secretary of the
Department of Correction; Tony Rand,
who served more than two decades in
the state legislature, including eight
years as Senate Majority Leader, and
retired North Carolina Supreme Court
Justice Patricia Timmons-Goodson,
now a member of the U.S. Commission
on Civil Rights.
Fayetteville Mayor Mitch Colvin and
Cumberland County Commissioner
Chairman Larry Lancaster will help
with the ground-breaking. e city and
the county have each pledged to con-
tribute $7.5 million to the history center
and state legislators have so far allocat-
ed $5 million toward the project. An ad-
ditional $2 million has been raised from
private sources.
David Winslow, senior consultant to
the project, said organizers plan to seek
more money from the general assembly
next year and they are actively talking
to private donors.
e first phase of the project is fully
funded. Winslow said it's expected to be
up and running by June of 2019.
If funding for the second phase hap-
pens quickly, the two-story center could
be built in 2020 and open the following
year, Winslow said.
