The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce is the local chamber of commerce for the towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, and Southern Orange County in North Carolina, United States. The Chamber of Commerce's role has included working with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Athletic Department to promote visitor spending in the downtown area and helping businesses to relocate to Franklin Street and substantially vacant shopping malls, such as Meadowmont on the eastern edge of Chapel Hill. Along with UNC's Center for Global Initiatives, School of Social Work, and Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development, and Duke University's Center for International Development, the Chamber of Commerce is part of the Institute for Sustainable Development.
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“That’s where Time magazine lives ... way out there on the puzzled, masturbating edge, peering through the keyhole and selling what they see to the big wide world of chamber of commerce voyeurs who support the public prints.”
—Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)
“I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen:
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.
And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And ‘Thou shalt not’ writ over the door;”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and Boston Bay, you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;—and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not absent from the chamber where thou sittest.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)