Molly Rawn is one of Fayetteville’s biggest cheerleaders.
She has to be. Her mission as CEO of Experience Fayetteville is to not only welcome those who visit Fayetteville but bolster those who live and work there.
This year Rawn has done that perhaps more than ever when she and her team helped bring 17,000 people to Fayetteville for the UCI Cyclo-Cross World Cup, making it only the second time that the event took place in the United States.
The multi-million dollar project made for Fayetteville tourism’s best January on record in terms of lodging revenue — a much-needed boost after two years of the covid pandemic left local businesses struggling to catch up.
It also resulted in $800,000 to create a cycling legacy fund, programming to make local restaurants more cycling friendly and to help support other events, other large-scale cycling competitions, that want to set up in…
