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Economic Indicators .............................. 3 Publisher’s Note ..................................... 4 Commercial Real Estate ......................... 5 Achievers ........................................... 8, 9 Technology ...........................................11 Health Care .........................................12 In The News ...................................16, 17 Biz Leads .......................................20, 21
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Through faith and hard work, Brooks has successfully owned and operated two healthcare businesses.
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or 23 years, Dr. Connie Brooks and her family have made Fayetteville their home. Since coming to the area in 1999, Brooks has opened two well-known businesses. Brooks is a native of Lumberton, North Carolina and grew up with the aspiration to become a physician and help people in need. With a Lumbee Native American background, she received a scholarship through the Native American Association. For undergrad, Brooks attended Western Carolina University and then attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to obtain her master’s in Public Health. With the completion of the master’s program, she graduated from East Carolina’s
doctoral program. After moving to Fayetteville from New Mexico, where Brooks practiced medicine working with the Indian Health Service Payback, she made the move to open her first business in 2007. “I’m kind of an entrepreneur,” said Brooks. “I had helped open a business with my brother-in-law flipping houses before coming here, but in 2007 I was working for individuals and other hospital systems and then I just decided that I wanted to do this on my own.” The doors to New Hope Family Practice opened in January 2008. In the beginning, the practice started in an additional office space See BROOKS, page 7