Bakery will cause employment to rise.

• Position: EASTERN

The Cheesecake Factory will spend $17 million to open a 100,000-square-foot bakery in Rocky Mount. It should be completed in early 2006 and employ about 500 by 2010. The bakery will produce cheesecakes and other baked goods for the company's restaurants, wholesalers, retailers and distributors. The site, which will host the company's first bakery outside its hometown of Calabasas Hills...