Before Spirit AeroSystems decided to put a new plant in Kinston, N.C., it was courted by at leave five other states — including Kansas. Other interested states were Florida, Texas, Georgia and Alabama, along with development-hungry countries such as India, Malaysia, Morocco, Spain and Brazil, according to a story in Business North Carolina.
The code name for the project was Marco Polo.
The plant will eventually employ more than 1,000 people. It was the focus of the magazine’s December issue.
