When it was announced in 2020, it was the year's biggest economic development deal in North Carolina and the largest single job-creating project in the state's history: healthcare provider Centene's East Coast headquarters campus in Charlotte.

In 2020, the company said it planned to invest $1B in a public-private partnership to build a 1M SF regional headquarters campus and locate 3,200 of its workers in the Queen City. The project, undertaken by Centene and development partners Clayco and Rafco Properties, broke ground in 2021 for complex of six office buildings.

Today, the campus is almost ready for delivery—but Centene abruptly has changed its mind about moving into it.

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