Sasser has said they weren't aiming to build just a new office, "we're building a lifestyle" that might help recruit new workers. Even with the promise of a new headquarters, the company persuaded just 30 percent of its Family Dollar corporate employees, about 200 people, to move from that company's Matthews, N.C., headquarters to Chesapeake. To fill several hundred of those roles, he said, Dollar Tree took in about 1,500 applications at a job fair that attracted lines stretching around its new headquarters.