Governor Mike Easley announced in May that Spirit and others in NC would be investing about $570 million for a new campus where 1,031 jobs are to be created over the next six years.
Spirit plans to manufacture the major composite fuselage structure for the Airbus A350 XWB program.
North Carolina’s incentive offer to lure Spirit AeroSystems to the Global TransPark includes almost $250 million in grants, tax breaks, road construction, free land, and even a break in the company’s city water bill. The biggest chunk of the incentives package came from a $100 million-dollar grant from the Golden Leaf Foundation that will be used to
construct the buildings that Spirit will lease.