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Tomas San Juan guides a 15,000-pound, 42-inch reinforced concrete water pipe as William Downing operates an excavator to lift the pipe Thursday at the site of the new Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse set to open this year on U.S. 258, next to River Oak Shopping Center. Both Tarboro men work for Barnhill Contracting Co., which is clearing and grading the land, installing drainage ponds and other tasks. James R. Vannoy and Sons Construction Co. of Anderson, S.C. is the general contractor and will be building the store, Barnhill superintendent Mitch Evans said. The project is expected to be finished Oct. 24. "This place will change in the next two to three weeks," Evans said. "You won't even recognize it.
T. J. ROYAL / Staff Writer