Starting A Small Business
ASSISTANCE AND RESOURCES
Moore County Chamber of Commerce
Address: 10677 Highway 15-501, Southern Pines, NC 28387
Phone: (910) 692-392
Website = www.moorecountychamber.com
Partners in Progress
Address: 10677 Highway 15-501, Southern Pines, NC 28387
Phone: (910) 246-031
Ray Ogden, Executive Director
Melanie Thompson, Administrative Office
Website = www.moorebusiness.org
Sandhills Community College Small Business Center
Address: 3395 Airport Road, Van Dusen Hall, Pinehurst, NC 28374
Phone: (910) 695-3938
Marilyn Neely, Director
Website = www.sandhills.cc.nc.us/sbc
SCORE (Counselors to America’s Small Business)
Sandhills Chapter 0364
Address: 10677 Highway 15-501, Southern Pines, NC 28387
Phone: (910) 692-3926
Website = www.sandhillsscore.org
Small Business Administration
Address: 6302 Fairview Road Suite 300, Charlotte, NC 28120
Phone: (704) 344-6563
Website = www.sba.gov/nc
LICENSING
North Carolina Business License Office
Department of Commerce
301 N Wilmington Street
Raleigh, NC 27601
Phone: (800)228-8443 or ((19)715-2864
Website = www.nccommerce.com/servicenter/blio
Moore County Tax Department
Tax Administrator/Collector
PO Box 457
Carthage, NC 28327
Privilege Licenses – Tax Collections – (910) 947-6385
Registration of tangible property – Tax Information – (910) 947-2255
Moore County Registrar of Deeds
Register of Deeds
100 Dowd Steet
PO Box 1210
Carthage, NC 28327
Business Name Registration – (910) 947-6370
Moore County Planning and Inspections
Zoning Ordinances – (910) 947-5010
Website = www.co.moore.nc.us
TAX INFO
State
Website = www.dornc.com/forms
Federal
Website = www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html
LOCAL JURISDICTIONS
Aberdeen
Planning and Inspections department – (910) 944-7024
Business Operation Licensing – Municipal Building – (910) 944-1115
Website = www.townofaberdeen.net/ececintro.htm
Pinehurst
Planning and Inspections department – (910) 295-2581
Website = http://www.villageofpinehurst.org/
Southern Pines
Planning and Inspections Department – (910) 692-4003
Utilities Billing / Water & Sewer Department – (910) 692-2206
Website = http://www.southernpines.net/

