As North Carolina’s biggest economic development catch, JetZero is going to gobble up more than 600 acres at Piedmont Triad International Airport. That still leaves several hundred acres at the site, which is enough to keep it in the hunt for prospective tenants.
“There are three or four of them that are good, solid prospects,’’ Kevin Baker, executive director of the airport’s authority, says. “I’d say one or two are very solid prospects that would require smaller amounts of space that we absolutely have. So yeah, we are far from out of business here.”
Long Beach, California-based jet maker JetZero is taking a big contiguous parcel once home to a public golf course. It has been graded and is now “shovel-ready” in the lingo of economic developers seeking to lure a major employer to the high-visibility Interstate 73 tract.
JetZero is joining long-term tenant Honda Aircraft Co. and upstart Boom Supersonic as key parts of the aerospace hum…