Project New Horizori.

• Position: EASTERN REGION

That's the code name state officials dubbed their bid for Chicago-based Boeing Co. to build its 777X jetliners in North Carolina. They pitched three sites, including 405 acres adjacent to Charlotte Douglas International Airport and a parcel at Piedmont Triad International Airport, outside Greensboro, but the plushest package pushed the North Carolina Global TransPark in Kinston. The Charlotte Observe reported officials considered offering up to $2.5 billion in state and local incentives, including tax breaks that required legislative approval, before trimming that bid to $683 million. After a brief competition, which drew bids from 54 sites in 22 states, Boeing did what most analysts expected: Wringing $8.7 billion of incentives from its native Washington state, it stayed close to home.

North Carolina's bids for Boeing

Charlotte Greensboro Kinston $632m $650m $683m EDENTON--Standard Medical Acceptance Corp. will invest more than $552,000 and create 32 jobs in three years at a new operations center here. The New York consulting and financial-services company, which works with health-care providers, also will move its main data-processing center here. Jobs will pay an average annual salary of $63,906, double Chowan County's $31,646.

WELDON--Flambeau Inc. will close its local plant by June 30, idling 120. The Baraboo, Wis., company, which makes molded-plastic products for...