Tolson: Marketing the key to Global TransPark’s success – Rocky Mount Telegram

A local economic developer has been tapped to serve on the oversight authority of an industrial park adjacent to one of the larger commercial airports in the Southeastern United States.

Gov. Roy Cooper has appointed Norris Tolson, CEO of Carolinas Gateway Partnership, to the Global TransPark Authority, which oversees a 2,500 acre, multi-modal industrial airport in Kinston, about an hour’s drive from Rocky Mount. The airport runway is 11,500 feet, one of the longer commercial runways in the nation.

“The reason I accepted is because I see a lot of synergy between what the Global TransPark is trying to do and what we’re trying to do in the whole area of logistics,” Tolson said. (Rocky Mount Telegram)

Boeing triggers a high-stakes courtship – Rocky Mount Telegram

Eastern North Carolina is dressing up to go courting a bride with one of the largest dowries ever seen. Here comes Boeing, a giant aircraft manufacturing plant that would employ thousands of workers with high-paying jobs, bring millions of dollars in investment and who knows how many supporting companies?

The Global TransPark in Kinston would love nothing more than to announce that kind of wedding. But of course, so would Greensboro and Charlotte and – oh, yeah – a dozen or so other states. (More)