By Trina Kleist,
trinak@theunion.com
September 9, 2006
OTHER
NEWS.....
Tech Center Expands
(The Union - December 3, 2007)
Technology & Trees
(PDF)
(Nevada County Business News - December 2007)
2Wire eyes bigger slice of tech area
(The Union - May 2, 2007)
Building a Future for Our Children
(The Union - May 1, 2007)
Tech firms promise shining future
for Nevada County
(The Union - January 16, 2007)
Tech Center to open offices in
Spring
(The Union - September 9, 2006)
A good fit for Larkspur
Landing
(Marin Independent Journal - August 25, 2005)
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TECH CENTER
TO OPEN OFFICES IN SPRING
Local businesses and
industries that want to expand have few options available to them if they
need much more than 1,000-square feet of space. But choices will grow with
the opening next spring of the first phase of the Nevada City Tech Center
off Zion Street. The first of 10 buildings in the site, studded with
pines and oaks, will have 29,000-square feet in two stories, developer
Robert Upton of Campus Property Group in San Rafael said this week. It
is being built on Providence Mine Road on a 40-acre parcel that the company
bought recently from the Grass Valley Group. About 20 acres will be left as
open space, including trails and a small recreational area for employees.
"Space is always an issue" when talking about economic growth, said Chuck
Neeley, director of the Nevada County Economic Resource Council, on Friday.
Martin Webb, owner of Plan it Solar, recalled a local solar panel
manufacturer
that
was lured to upstate New York a few years ago when western Nevada County
lacked enough room to expand. Real estate broker Lachlan Richards of Sperry
Van Ness/Highland Commercial in Nevada City had worked with that company,
Daystar Technologies. "If a company needs 5,000 square feet or more,
there's no place for their company to go," Richards said. Commercial and
light industrial space currently available generally ranges from 600 to
1,500 square feet. Now, he and his wife, Susan Richards, are handling sales
and leasing at the technology center, and said they already are working with
potential clients. When built out in six or seven years, the 10 buildings
will offer 210,000 square feet of space, which can be custom-built. They
hope companies will move in that can play off the synergy of the neighbors
at Grass Valley Group, the Richards said. The development had been approved
by Nevada City in the 1980s as part of the original plans for Grass Valley
Group, although those plans called for three
buildings of 70,000 square feet each. Crews broke ground about three weeks
ago. |
