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Jeremy & Artise Stewart from Seattle, Washington
IN BUSY NORTH CHARLESTON, South Carolina, the pieces of a huge and complex puzzle are beginning to mesh, as Boeing
BY BRIAN SHERMAN
forges ahead in a herculean effort to construct a massive facility and assemble a workforce tasked with the job of delivering 787 Dreamliners by the first quarter of 2012. Meanwhile, in nearby Mount
Pleasant, a key member of the Boeing team that plans to have the company’s second 787 final assembly plant operational by July 2011 is settling in and contemplating the differences between the fast pace of the big city and the relatively slower way life progresses along the Carolina coast.
Like Boeing, Jeremy Stewart and his wife Artise chose the Charleston area. Te aerospace giant opted to spend at least $750 million and bring approximately 3,800 jobs to the Lowcountry after also considering Kansas, Texas, North Carolina and
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Everett, Wash., the Seattle suburb that has served as the longtime center of Boeing’s commercial manufacturing universe. Te Stewarts had their choice of any city in the United States where Boeing has a presence. For a variety of reasons, the weather, the beach and family considerations among them, they elected to make their new home in the Charleston area. Te Stewarts were given the opportunity to choose any Boeing location after 31-year-old Jeremy completed the Leaders for Global Operations program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. Only 48 people from around the world participate in the two-year program, where, according to MIT, a “diverse mix of students and alumni, senior industry executives and faculty from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and School of Engineering create an exciting global operations learning environment.”
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www.RetiringToSC.com Te Stewarts considered Seattle,
where Jeremy was with Boeing for four years, and Philadelphia before deciding on the Charleston area, and they looked at a large number of homes in West Ashley and on James Island before purchasing a house in Mount Pleasant’s Hidden Lakes subdivision. “Ultimately, our decision depended on what we could get for our money,” said Artise, who is veterinarian. “Mount Pleasant has good schools and everything is close by – the beach, restaurants and Charleston – and there’s lots of young people here. And when we tell our friends in Seattle and Boston what we paid for our house and what we pay in property taxes, they ask, “Are you kidding?’” “Seattle is beautiful but hard to get used to,” she added. “Here, we can go to the beach, and we can participate in outdoor activities year- round.” Despite the Lowcountry’s
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