Bill would name new agricultural sciences building after long-time NC ag commissioner

Bill to name a new Raleigh building after Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler cleared the House unanimously.

Posted 8:52 p.m. Mar 3, 2021 — Updated 10:05 p.m. Mar 3, 2021

Travis Fain

, WRAL statehouse reporter

RALEIGH, N.C. — A new $100 million Agricultural Sciences Center on Reedy Creek Road in Raleigh would bear long-time Commissioner of Agriculture Steve Troxler's name under legislation that easily cleared the House on Wednesday.

The vote on House Bill 137 was unanimous, and the bill moves to the state Senate for more discussion.

Rep. Jimmy Dixon, R-Duplin, who chairs the House Agriculture committee, was effusive in his praise of Troxler in presenting the bill. He said the 225,000 square-foot research facility "will touch every life in North Carolina, every day of our lives” and that there has been no better proponent for the facility and the "many other positive things that have happened in agriculture” than Troxler.

“I believe that, within my lifetime, he’s been without peer," said Dixon.

Troxler won his fifth term last November. Under the bill, the new facility would be named "The Steve Troxler Agriculture Sciences Center."

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