Since 2022, North Carolina has spent more than $50 million in taxpayer dollars to build a “superfactory” at the Greensboro airport that today, nearly two years after its completion, sits dormant. It is not for a lack of companies wanting to occupy this long, rectangular hangar, says Kevin Baker, executive director of the Piedmont Triad Airport Authority.
“I have absolute confidence that we’d be able to fill this building anytime we need to,” he said. “There’s already been interest in this building.”
For now, at least, the facility is in the hands of one company whose inactivity in North Carolina will soon give Baker and state leaders a decision on how to protect their large public investment in a burgeoning aerospace center…