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NCGTPEDR holds 2024 Regional Forklift Rodeo

The 2024 North Carolina Global TransPark Economic Development Region Forklift Rodeo, held on Tuesday, October 15th, at Wayne Community College, was a resounding success. The event brought in forklift drivers from industries throughout the region, including Greene, Lenoir, and Wayne Counties, to compete for the title of the best forklift driver in the region

In major investment, officials break ground for military aircraft maintenance facility at N.C. Global TransPark

State, federal and local officials broke ground Tuesday on a North Carolina Global TransPark complex that the U.S. Navy will use to maintain and repair Navy and Marine Corps aircraft.

Officials said the U.S. Navy’s Fleet Readiness Center East, C-130 Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul complex will create more than 400 new jobs and generate $400 million in new investment for the region. The facility will expand the existing Fleet Readiness Center East, which is at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in Havelock and is the state’s largest employer east of Interstate 95. 

SQUAN chooses Kinston for newest service deployment center

The North Carolina Goldsboro Global TransPark Economic Development Region has exciting news to share! SQUAN, a leading services provider of design-build infrastructure, maintenance, and repair, for both wireline and wireless network operators, developers, and other related organizations such as municipalities and utilities, has chosen Kinston for one of three deployment center locations in North Carolina

Greene County welcomes new business

On Tuesday morning, the North Carolina Global TransPark Economic Development Region held a ribbon cutting ceremony for Building Envelope Erection Services (BEES) at 1441 Nahunta Road in Snow Hill. “This is a great addition to the county,” said Senator Don Davis. “This is where we need to be right now as we are still coming out of difficult times. This is about growing the economy, and growing the county.”