On Monday morning, top North Carolina officials plan to celebrate another landmark jobs project from an unproven manufacturer near the center of the state.
Three years after the electric vehicle company VinFast ceremonially broke ground in Chatham County and two years after Boom Supersonic completed its superfactory in Greensboro, the California aerospace startup JetZero will officially begin constructing its promised 14,500-worker campus — also in Greensboro.
Those first two facilities have yielded few to no jobs and one recent lawsuit, with North Carolina as the plaintiff. What then can make JetZero soar where VinFast and Boom so far haven’t?…