A Washington-based aerospace and industrial manufacturer has chosen Great Falls over Twin Falls, Idaho, for a 2-million-square-foot campus that the company says will bring $800 million in investment and up to 1,000 jobs within its first five years. Janicki Industries made the announcement Tuesday after soliciting tax incentives from both communities.

The decision puts one of the larger announced manufacturing investments in recent Montana memory into the Electric City rather than crossing the state line. Janicki, which produces large-scale composite structures for aerospace and defense clients, has facilities in Washington state. The Great Falls campus would represent a significant expansion of the company's footprint and its first major Montana presence.

Details of the tax incentive package that tipped the decision toward Great Falls were not immediately available Tuesday. State and local economic development officials had been in competition with Idaho counterparts for the project. The 2-million-square-foot footprint would make it one of the largest industrial facilities in the state.