Boeing opens new St. Louis facility Thursday

This story was originally published in St. Louis Business Journal on October 13, 2016.

By Diana Barr | bizjournals.com/stlouis

Boeing Co. on Thursday will formally open a new 424,000-square-foot facility at its Hazelwood campus for manufacturing composite parts for its new 777X commercial jetliner.

About 700 jobs are expected to be added in production, engineering and support by the early 2020s at what officials said is the Chicago-based company’s first commercial airplanes facility here…