Cum-Park Plaza

Cum-Park Plaza is a shopping center at 2290 North Church Street in Burlington, North Carolina, and was the first shopping center constructed in Alamance County.cite web| last=| first=| title="Events that shaped the county" | work=| publisher="The Times News" | date=2007-07-24 | url=http://www.thetimesnews.com/news/burlington_4265___article.html/many_new.html | accessdate=2008-06-20] Cum-Park Plaza opened in August 1963 with Roses as its anchor tenant. Twenty-seven additional stores and businesses were located in the shopping center.cite web| last=Wilder | first=Mike | title="'This was the place to shop': After 43 years, Cum-Park Plaza's owners sell Alamance County's first shopping center" | work=| publisher="The Times News" | date=2006-07-23 | url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-148543750.html | accessdate=2008-06-20]

Businesses and organizations in Cum-Park Plaza include Roses, Food Lion, Rent-A-Center, Mid-Carolina Bank, Rosita’s Jewelry & Fashions, Re-Store, and Mid-Carolina Powersports.cite web| last=| first=| title="Burlington bank robbed" | work=| publisher="The Times News" | date=2007-11-21 | url=http://www.thetimesnews.com/news/bank_7768___article.html/robbed_burlington.html | accessdate=2008-06-20] cite web| last=Abernethy | first=Michael | title="Benefit will help family hurt by fire" | work=| publisher="The Times News" | date=2008-03-24 | url=http://www.thetimesnews.com/news/benefit_11795___article.html/shoffner_jaeden.html | accessdate=2008-06-20] cite web| last=Rivas | first=Keren | title="About business: Hispanics are the new entrepreneurs" | work=| publisher="The Times News" | date=2007-08-27 | url=http://www.thetimesnews.com/news/luna_5261___article.html/jewelry_business.html | accessdate=2008-06-20] cite web| last= | first= | title="RE-STORE– a great way to raise money and hours!" | work=| publisher=Elon University | date= | url=http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:A7qXpOt2PL4J:org.elon.edu/habitat/news/nov2005.pdf+Cum-Park+Plaza+Burlington&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=52&gl=us | accessdate=2008-06-20] The Episcopal Church Center and a branch of the Alamance County Library was once located in Cum-Park Plaza.cite web| last= | first= | title="Worship - Where Life Is" | work=| publisher="TIME" | date=1965-08-27 | url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,828353,00.html | accessdate=2008-06-20] cite web| last=Peterson | first=Becky | title="In Memory of Virginia 'Genny' Wrenn" | work=| publisher=Alamance Library System | date= | url=http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:WO8xStThr_gJ:www.alamancelibraries.org/Check%2520it%2520Out%2520Summer%25202007.pdf+Cum-Park+Plaza+Burlington&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=57&gl=us | accessdate=2008-06-20]

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