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Marc Weiss,
Director of the Hanover Economic Development Office,
will give us a brief presentation on business
development in the metropolitan area and the purpose
of the GreenTech Incubator.
Located in the Presidential
I Business Park in Ashland, the GreenTech Incubator
will provide help with research, financial services,
business planning and other issues as well as office
space for start-up companies. As the companies grow,
they are expected to move to nearby locations,
boosting the local economy.
The project is a partnership between Hanover County,
the Town of Ashland, Dominion and the Virginia
Biosciences Development Center (VBDC), which will
manage the GreenTech incubator. The VBDC, which
manages the Virginia Bio-Technology Research Park's
business incubator in downtown Richmond, has helped
launch 68 companies in its 13 years of existence.
Forty-one of those companies have successfully left
the center, including three whose stock is now
traded publicly.
The GreenTech incubator is scheduled to open this
year. It is the first in the Commonwealth of
Virginia.
“The venue is perfect,” said Thomas F. Farrell II,
chairman, president and CEO of Dominion. “The local
leadership is superb. Hanover and Ashland have a
sterling future. We have the partners to make this
work in a great and growing community.”
This is a
regular meeting. Bring business cards and brochures
about your company (if you have some).
You are welcome to invite other professionals to
attend. Keep in mind that we want to avoid
overlapping business categories with current BSG
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