For Immediate Release...
March 19, 2007
TransPark Facility Getting New Name
(Kinston)—The high-tech conference and training facility at the N.C. Global TransPark (GTP) is getting a new name to reflect its key role in the future of the TransPark.
Formerly called the Education & Training Center (ETC) the 33,000 SF facility will soon be called TransPark Center to more directly associate it with the GTP.
The name change also coincides with an expanded marketing program, designed to better inform businesses in Eastern North Carolina about the TransPark Center 's capabilities.
GTP Executive Director Darlene Waddell noted, “The TransPark Center will continue to be a great place for educating and training the region's workforce. However, as home of the N.C. Aerospace Alliance and the Advanced Machining Center, it delivers even more than education and training.”
Waddell added, “In many ways, this great facility is already central to many of our activities at the GTP, so TransPark Center is a very accurate identification for the building.”
Since the former Education & Training Center opened in 2000, more than 100,000 people have used its various training facilities, and up to 1,400 people per month are now using it.
The TransPark Center features a large auditorium, a variety of computer-equipped classrooms, a high-ceiling training bay with reinforced floors, a fully-equipped dining area and ample parking. The Advanced Machining Center offers state-of-the-art precision machining, metal forming and computer-aided design.
In addition to offering training of many types, the TransPark Center is adaptable to a wide range of conferences, group meetings, workshops and trade shows. Center officials plan to use direct mail and similar marketing efforts to fully inform businesses, civic groups and associations in the region of the center's capabilities.
TransPark Center Director Bruce Parson said, “The companies and agencies using the Center have ranged from private companies such as NACCO Materials Handling Group, Inc. to non-profits like the state Department of Transportation and Lenoir Memorial Hospital .”
Parson added, “While we have been very pleased with the increasing number of users, we will be more aggressively marketing the Center's capability to businesses across the southeastern part of the state.”
Contact:
Jennifer Russo
Marketing & Communications Manager
North Carolina Global TransPark
(252) 522-4929 ext. 719
jrusso@ncgtp.com
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